Cherie Piper Quotations

We beat them during the tournament, but anything can happen. You never know. Every team can improve and do better in these Games.

Of course we expected to face the U.S., but our medal will still be gold if we win. I'm disappointed for them, but I'm happy for Sweden and happy for our game. It's a great thing for women's hockey.

It's great. This is where we wanted to arrive. Now we have to go on because our job is not finished.

They probably gained a lot of confidence in that U.S. game, so we've got to be ready for anything. In 2002, they gave us a test. It was a bit of a gut check for us.

We don't think about that stuff and we're not concerned about it either. We're focused on trying to win the gold medal and we're certainly not thinking about what anybody is saying about us.

I think we're really good about pushing each other in practice and we have high tempo and I feel like we have some of the best players in the world so just competing against one another and getting in there and pushing each other around and getting ready for that physical style of game coming up, we have to play hard and pretend it's a game.

We all bring some different elements at the Games. Everything is a stepping stone for us after playing these two games. These Games are preparing us to play a 60-minutes game and preparing us for the gold-medal game.