Cassie Campbell
Cassie Campbell
Cassie Campbell-Pascall, CMis a Canadian former ice hockey player and broadcaster for Sportsnet. Born in Richmond Hill, Ontario, she was the captain of the Canadian ice hockey team during the 2002 Winter Olympics and led the team to a gold medal. The left winger took on the role of captain again in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, and again successfully led her team to the Gold Medal with a 4 – 1 win over Sweden...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth22 November 1973
CityRichmond Hill, Canada
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Why is women's hockey the only sport that sort of gets put down for excellence? Why should we stop and not get better?
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Our bathroom window is covered by the flag.
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We were the favorites for a reason, and we showed exactly why. We faced much more adversity four years ago, but we were just as determined and just as focused this time. It's really even sweeter when you can come through as the favorite.
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We wanted to get to the gold-medal game. We're there and now we're going to prepare and do everything in the next two days to be the best we can be.
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We have all the pieces of the puzzle. Hopefully all those pieces fit together tomorrow. Right now, I think we're the best we can be.
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We have to get her to move and that's the way we have to beat her.
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The people there were just awesome. It's like a 5,000-person town and we had 2,500 people come out for the game. They had scarves in the windows saying Welcome Canada. Kids would run up to us on the street with pieces of paper to sign for autographs.
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If we can fake a shot, make a pass and just get her moving side to side I think that's where we can beat her.
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The score may not show it, but it was a tough game. This is why we came, to get to the medal round. But there's only one color medal we want. Now we've taken the next step toward it.
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The score may not show it, but it was a tough game.
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After she lets in a couple of goals early, she has a tendency to fall apart, so that's what we're going to try to do.
agree bit couple guys maybe team
There was one (boys) team that was maybe a bit obnoxious. You'll always get the one team where a couple of guys don't agree with women's hockey.
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This is beautiful, and it was just a great team effort to bring home another gold medal for our country. I know there are so many people back home who are proud of us. I'm so proud of every single player on our team.
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They were crazy about it. It's like we were soccer stars in Italy. They would ask for autographs, and we'd go into a restaurant and they would spoil us, try to give us wine. So the spirit here is alive and kicking.