They made a huge banner and all the kids and staff signed it. It’s a little hard to say goodbye to Noah. He’s almost six now so he knows what’s going on. He said ‘I’ll...

To be Olympic champions for the second time in a row is great. It’s definitely harder to defend gold than to win it.

There were a lot of kids in the crowd and I think a lot of them were familiar with my name and obviously being over here with the attention I received when I was here....

I could go on an on. All the girls on this team can tell you similar stories.

You’d never see that on a men’s team with a little baby on the bus who is crying at midnight. All the girls enjoy having him around. It’s refreshing if it makes her feel comfortable,...

It (Sweden’s participation in the final) is great for the game.

It’s kind of nice to get the monkey off my back and get two goals and now I don’t have to think about it anymore.

This is a pretty powerful line. We just complement each other’s strengths. (Gillian) is a big-body presence and creates a lot of space for Piper and I to make plays. I think we have good...

To defend the gold for our team and every Canadian back home is huge. For us, it’s all gold or nothing. There’s no other medal to win in this tournament. That’s the pressure we put...

It’s our first meeting since the worlds, so it will be interesting to see what they look like, and how we look as well.

This is the Olympics, and it matters.

We are completely prepared. If we don’t beat ourselves, we’ll be fine.

When I got the second goal, I knew I had 100 goals so one of my teammates, Gillian Apps, grabbed the puck for me.

It’s great to see the other nations doing well, but as far as this tournament goes, we’ve got to be ready to beat the U.S.. We’ll try not to think about it until the final,...

This is the Olympics, and it matters. If there was no goal differential that mattered, we would probably dump the puck in and sit back. But it makes a mockery at the same time when...

What you’d like to see from a young player is they have to come into camp confident enough to take somebody’s spot. You see that a lot more in men’s hockey than you do in...

I think it’s the greatest upset in the history of women’s hockey. It is a bit bittersweet. We’ve been geared toward the U.S. all year, and we prepare for them with everything we do. We...

We are a pro team in every sense of the word outside of being paid like pro players.

We’re expecting to go over and win the gold and defend the gold medal. Anything less would be disappointing for us. We know what we have to do. It’s just a matter of doing it...

Little bit of mixed feelings because they’ve been our greatest competition for 15 years and now it’s a different final. I think it’s the greatest upset in the history of women’s hockey today.

I didn’t expect much from Italy, but Russia I thought would be better. I don’t think they played with much heart.

We expected Italy to be weak. I don’t know if we would have predicted that score, but we’re not going to apologize for winning by that much. It’s the Olympic Games and we’ve got a...

Am I worried? Sure, I’m worried. When it comes to the Olympics, it can’t be a predictable finish.

I think it’s the greatest upset in women’s hockey. They were talking about taking women’s hockey out of the Olympics. I think after tonight you can’t talk about that any more.

It was kind of a nice moment. It was exciting to get the 100th goal and to do it in Finland where I played before… it was sort of a neat feeling.

We expected Italy to be weak, but we’re not going to apologize for winning.

We are prepared [for the medal round]. We’ve worked a lot on the strengths and weaknesses of all the teams including ourselves. We faced a lot of penalty kills today, which was good for us.

We haven’t faced a lot of adversity in our own end, but I’m sure they’ll be fired up when they hear that comment. They’ll be ready to go.

They (Finland) played a great game against the U.S. and we have to get off to a quick start. Finland is always a problem with their speed and scoring ability.

You don’t want to leave anything to chance. Unfortunately, because I hate blowing teams out like that.

She threw it out from the corner to the high slot, and I just sort of made a little fake and went top shelf over the Swedish goalie. It was a decent goal, a nice...

We’ve been in pressure games a lot over the years, so we’re used to it. We, by no means, think we’ve got this thing in the bag.

It doesn’t matter to me; we could fly under the radar all the way to the big game that we win and that would be fine.

I thought it was going to be closer. That’s not great hockey.

It’s really exciting. We’ve been working eight, nine months for this moment. It felt a little surreal, going to the rink, getting our stuff and leaving but we’re ready to go.

It was painful. So I just tried to pass more than shoot.

…is to win the Olympic gold medal this year, that’s for sure the biggest one.

I grew up in a small town and once I had a woman come into the dressing room and she screamed at me that I shouldn’t be on the ice with her son.