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 gold medal to try and win.
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We expected Italy to be weak, but we're not going to apologize for winning.
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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.
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To be Olympic champions for the second time in a row is great. It's definitely harder to defend gold than to win it.
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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 the women's game.
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