Cheryl Pounder Quotations

I usually am the first one to lose it. As an athlete, if you could stop time for a moment it would be when you're getting a medal and when you hear your national anthem.

You think about just being here and in the moment and try and not get ahead of yourself because we've worked our butts off for the last how many years. We're ready.

No one likes to lose against us, so they always put up a good fight. And they try and beat us. And that's good.

You can never take any hockey club lightly and we haven't thus far and we don't want to now. Sweden is a great hockey club and they can put together 60 great minutes, well we saw it today. (An upset) can happen to anyone. They've got great goaltending and some great skilled players so we have to be ready.

It's far and away the best team I've ever played for. We saw all the sweat going into it, and that's why all the tears came to the surface at the end.

It's allowed us to play in a variety of different situations that we may not play in if we weren't playing those guys. Being down two goals, or pulling a goalie late in the game. Playing the guys back to back, it's been very physical.