The United States is in a group with Russia, China and Sweden. Up front, coach Daniele Sauvageau has plenty to work with in Wickenheiser, Jennifer Botterill of Calgary, Cassie Campbell of Brampton, Nancy Drolet of Drummondville, Que. We bring some youth and a lot of enthusiasm, and hopefully some help scoring goals or playing defence or whatever we can do to chip in. This team is very disciplined and very talented. Everyone is seeing gold all the way.
Nobody wants anything less than that.
It's a new year. It's '99, and we want to shine. We have people who can put the puck in the net, people with speed, and we've got a lot of character. We're never gone to lose the Canadian character we've had in the past. We can't go in expecting to win every single game we play.