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
She threw it out from the corner to the high slot, and I just sort of made a little fake and went top shelf over the Swedish goalie. It was a decent goal, a nice goal. Sometimes you get them on garbage goals, but this was kind of a fun one.
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.
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.
I grew up in a small town and once I had a woman come into the dressing room and she screamed at me that I shouldn't be on the ice with her son.
To be Olympic champions for the second time in a row is great. It's definitely harder to defend gold than to win it.