Ralph Krueger Quotations

There's no question the top seven are far above the rest.

With all of Canada watching, this happening at 35 years of age, my God, that's a great story.

Both goalies were on the top of their game, but Gerber had the shutout against Canada fresh in his head.

Without continuity and without the core of players bringing a lot of experience to this tournament we would have had no chance. We have an average of 100 national team games among our 22 players.

A very special day for Swiss ice hockey and a very special day for this group of individuals that believed this was possible and never stopped believing. Beginning with The Wall in net, Martin Gerber , unbelievable penalty killing, and a lot of courage from players who just a few years ago were asking for autographs from the players they faced today.

It took a lot of courage to do this by some players who were asking for autographs from those players a few years ago.

I'm not really into addressing those kind of things.

This is a very special day for a group of players who never stopped believing.

The team is mature. You're going to see that here, we've by far not reached our goals yet. We have Germany tomorrow. There's no time to sit on this. They can look back on this period for the rest of their life and they should do that with pride but they're not going to do that right now. I know that.

He brings a calmness on the puck to our power play. Off the ice, he brings passion and fire.