It's good to boost your confidence a little bit. The net was getting really small. But the most important thing, we got that win. |
It's kind of the same thing when we played Calgary. It's a win at a time. We're pretty confident. |
People are always ready to play Team Canada. It's been like that for a long time, but every tournament we seem to deal with it pretty well. We go there to win the gold medal, not the silver, not the bronze. |
The first four years I was there, we lost a lot and people weren't coming out to see us and people did not respect our team. Now we have turned it around. Now we are a competitive team and we are winning every year and we have a chance to keep it going. |
Things were going in, that's the way it went tonight, and we need to keep it going because it's a long season. It's really frustrating after a game and you've had five good chances and none of them are goals, but things went in tonight. |
Toronto played very well, but we definitely wanted to outwork them and I think we did. I think from the first minute to the last, our tempo went up a little bit and the third period was a good period for us and we capitalized, tied it up and won in shootout, so we're all pretty happy about it. |
We can't put our heads down after this one, |
We didn't play well in our last two exhibition games ... but we did switch it on tonight. |
We got the win and that's the most important thing. It wasn't our best game. |
We have a lot of good players on the team, and we do have to step it up. I think we can. We believe in each other. We're confident. We know that just because we had two games with no goals (it's not) that all of a sudden we can't score. |
We made sure we came out hard. We knew we wanted this win. |
We really played 60 minutes, and we played hard for 60. They played a great game. They had some great chances, great opportunities. It was a good hockey game for both sides. Both teams were working really hard. |
We're a confident team heading back home. |
We're just looking ahead. We have to worry about what we do and not the other teams. I think we'll be fine, we just have to make sure that we win the next game. |
We've got to keep going. |