Every spring, nearly a hundred people from around North America, come together in Lake Placid to live out a fantasy.

“I get shivers up and down my spine every time I pull this jersey on. It just brings me back to being a 15 year old watching those guys play those games,” Miracle on Ice fantasy camper Paul Torre said.

Paul Torre is one of them. In fact, he’s come here for the Miracle on Ice Fantasy Camp each of its first six years and he hopes to never miss one.

“How I play today doesn’t save my country or do anything for the country, but it meant so much back then. I feel that. We were a broken nation back then, before they brought us together,” he added.

They, are the actual players who pulled off that miracle. They, love to come back to Lake Placid and get together with each other, just as much.

“For everybody, it just brings back so many great memories and I think everybody has just wonderful memories of Lake Placid,” 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team defenseman Bill Baker said.

“I’ve always said this is Pleasantville here. I come back here and it's like going back in time. It’s a great community with great people and this is where everything happened for us,” team captain Mike Eruzione added.

During this camp, these Miracle players give these campers a dream week. Not only do they coach the campers.

“We’re giving them a real feel of what it was like to be around our team. We certainly love it. I know all the players love it.”

Some even skate with them as teammates. For John Harrington and the rest of these Miracle players, the return trips to Lake Placid are fun, yes. However, they are also about so much more.

It’s been 42 years since 1980 and these reunions, they don’t happen as much as everyone would like.

“We get together. We get to share our stories. We get to laugh. It’s funny, when we are together, we don’t even talk about the Olympic Games anymore, we just talk about our lives and where they are going,” Eruzione said.

As is the reality of life, this group has also begun to experience loss.

Coach Herb Brooks died in 2003. Bob Suter passed away in 2014. Mark Pavelich died just last year.

“Pav, he wasn’t just a great player, he was a good person. Bobby Suter, boy you wouldn’t want a better teammate than Bobby Suter. Yeah we miss them,” Eruzione said.

This team, and community, honors them with yes, jerseys raised to the rafters of Herb Brooks Arena, and as only they can, with some smiles and laughs.

“I think someday we are all going to be up there. I said to Jani (Steve Janasek) I said, hopefully the building will still be here and hopefully I’ll be the last jersey up.”

Hopefully they are all up, forever.

You can watch the full half-hour special on this fantasy camp and the Miracle on Ice, right here on Spectrum News. It premiers Thursday at 8pm and can also be seen Saturday and Sunday, at 8 p.m.