There's been no malice meant and no intent to disrespect. We're just going about our business and getting ourselves in a position to be in a medal game. |
These women wear the Canadian flag in every part of their bodies and everybody has to be proud of them and nobody should question them. |
They have a goaltender who can win a game for them and that's the bottom line. Our key is always the first 20 minutes. If we open the door for other teams to feel confident against us, anything can happen. |
We didn't do that intentionally. We were playing on smaller ice, so it's a lot more physical. There's not as much room to move, so if you don't move the puck along quickly, you're going to get hit. |
We don't like to see any hits like that from either team. But whatever we use to motivate us won't come from the other team. It will come from us. |
We just didn't compete. We'll be much better the next days and the next games, but that's just not acceptable. |
We just hope people will be as patient with us as they were with the men when they started. |
We're pretty young as a sport. If you look at the men's game way back, it was just a one- or two-team tournament as well. It's a long process, but they're getting there. If we're not playing sharp, I could see Sweden and Finland stealing a win on us. |
We've been coming along all year. Everybody's pretty excited. We've been on a mission since May and we're just going to keep working towards it. |
We've got tremendous leadership on this team period - it doesn't matter who wears the letters. |
You're always motivated to play the best teams in the world. |