This was a little piece of history that was echoed this week during the ninth annual Miracle on Ice Fantasy Camp, a unique opportunity for hockey aficionados to play for and with members of the 1980 USA Hockey Team.

Daniel Kokosenski, of California who participated in the camp for the second year in a row, knelt down on the ice during the opening ceremony and proposed to his girlfriend of three years, Noelle Park. In another parallel, he ended up getting drafted onto Janaszak’s team.

The night after the game with the Russians, Janaszak went out to dinner with Minichello.

“You walk out and look on the main street — white snow is coming down, Main Street’s packed, they’re chanting ‘USA,’ singing the national anthem,” he said, recalling that night. “It was a perfect little winter village. It looked like something out of a snow globe.”

Daniel Kokosenski and Noelle Park pause for a photo towards the end of the Miracle on Ice Fantasy Camp in Herb Brooks Arena on Wednesday. (Provided photo — Noelle Park)

Kokosenski and Park’s engagement has been in the works for more than a year. Kokosenski thought about it during last year’s camp and arranged with the camp organizers to do the proposal in front of the cameras during the ceremony this year.

“I planned it all out. Snuck the ring in my pocket,” he said. “We spent a couple days in New York. It was hidden in a bag. She had no idea.”

Everyone else in their families knew, though. He talked with Park’s dad about a month ago.

“That’s actually really important to me,” Park said. “I love that.”

Kokosenski and Park met through mutual friends. He’s a pilot for corporate clients and she’s an emergency room nurse of 14 years. She loves his sense of humor. He loves her kindness.

Last year’s MOI Camp was Kokosenski’s first time in Lake Placid. He’s an avid hockey player who plays at least a few times per week. He remembers watching the Miracle on Ice as a kid, and he became a “superfan” when Wayne Gretzky came to play for the Los Angeles Kings.

Kokosenski said the campers get an extraordinary amount of access to the 1980 team members. And Park has had plenty to do, from nice walks in downtown Lake Placid to tours of the Olympic venues.

“He looks forward to it every year, and he hasn’t stopped talking about it since last year,” Park said.

“We have some mountain towns in California,” Kikosenski said. “They’re nice towns, but this is just special.”

The couple touched back down in California Thursday night, but they’re already hoping to come back to Lake Placid again for next year’s camp. As for the wedding, they’re thinking about something small. This is a second marriage for both of them, and they’ll be joining their families together, including Kokosenski’s 20-year-old son Nick and Park’s “fantastic cat,” Fabio.