That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too. |
That's who the book was written for. It's awesome to go on the road and be able to influence so many young girls. The team is so excited to be able to do that and I take it as an honor. |
That's women's hockey. Some refs think that if somebody falls down, you've got to call it. Part of that is the talent differences, because things look different to the refs when two teams are playing at two different speeds. Hopefully they're not doing that when we play Canada. |
The resilience of this team, the character we showed in coming back and beating Finland yesterday, we're all proud of ourselves in the fact that we're bringing the U.S. home a medal, It was great for us to start off strong, and I think we scored like two minutes, 30 seconds into the game, a good testament to the team that we were really refocusing and really went hard right from the beginning. |
There was no need for that. They're trying to pad their stats. Canada is running up the score for whatever reasons — personal, short-term. |
They are the reason I play hockey. I play hockey to beat Canada. |
This has been a long time in the making for our game. |
This has been a long time in the making for our game. They say there's no parity in women's hockey. Well, now you know better. It doesn't make me happy, but that's hockey. |
We can still make the U.S. proud by bringing home a medal. We hope people see [it that way] in their eyes. |
We didn't bury the puck when we needed to. |
We don't think about it (the big game with Canada). We try not to if it suddenly flips into our head. |
We know this is sort of their gold-medal game. If they beat us, they'll have a higher medal than they've ever had. ... We work on focus in sports psych, so this is the time we need it. |
We know what kind of class we have. |
We lost in the semifinals, but we still wanted to bring home a medal to the United States. |
We love her, and she is a great athlete. She's probably going to be on this team in a few years. |