E.M. Swift wrote a gracious blog post about our film, and in it he reminds us of one of the great side stories that didn’t make the final cut of the film.

The official team photo had to be doctored to include the photos of latecomers Bill and Bob Cleary and John Mayasich.

The photoshopping skills of the time weren’t the best, so its pretty easy to pick out the late additions. John Mayasich had his head slapped over Herb Brooks body (top left), and Bill and Bob Cleary replaced Bob Dupuis and Larry Alm (middle of the front row, and far left of the middle row respectively). The heads of the Cleary brothers were actually taken from a photo snapped by teammate Weldy Olson, himself an avid photographer.

It’s a hack job for sure, but the photo has endured to this day as the only official team photo of this remarkable team.