Hayley Wickenheiser
Hayley Wickenheiser
Hayley Wickenheiser OCis a Canadian women's ice hockey player. She was the first woman to play full-time professional hockey in a position other than goalie. Wickenheiser is a member of the Canada women's national ice hockey team. She has represented Canada at the Winter Olympics five times, capturing four gold and one silver medal and twice being named tournament MVP, and one time at the Summer Olympics in softball. She has the most gold medals of any Canadian Olympian and...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth12 August 1978
CityShaunavon, Canada
It was kind of a nice moment. It was exciting to get the 100th goal and to do it in Finland where I played before... it was sort of a neat feeling.
It's kind of nice to get the monkey off my back and get two goals and now I don't have to think about it anymore.
When I got the second goal, I knew I had 100 goals so one of my teammates, Gillian Apps, grabbed the puck for me.
This is the Olympics, and it matters. If there was no goal differential that mattered, we would probably dump the puck in and sit back. But it makes a mockery at the same time when you just sit back. Fans don't want to see that. ... If I was watching (the U.S.) scoring so many goals, I might wonder, too, but differential does matter.
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.
We expected Italy to be weak, but we're not going to apologize for winning.
We are a pro team in every sense of the word outside of being paid like pro players.
We did a great job and I am really happy for our team.
Little bit of mixed feelings because they've been our greatest competition for 15 years and now it's a different final. I think it's the greatest upset in the history of women's hockey today.
It doesn't matter to me; we could fly under the radar all the way to the big game that we win and that would be fine.
...is to win the Olympic gold medal this year, that's for sure the biggest one.
I thought it was going to be closer. That's not great hockey.
We haven't faced a lot of adversity in our own end, but I'm sure they'll be fired up when they hear that comment. They'll be ready to go.
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.