All the pressure is off and we'll play for ourselves. That can be dangerous for other teams.

This is our Olympics for the year. They're great ambassadors for the sport. Us, on the other hand, we've got some business to take care of this week. There's no givens, no guarantees.

Chad hit the ground running and is very excited to be back in Polk County and I am happy to have him in our Warriors program.

It has been so hard. We went as far as we could, playing in front of a Canadian crowd like this, under the Canadian microscope. All we care is we're happy with it and people can think what they want. Until you're here, until you're playing in this atmosphere, you have no idea and people can think and say what they want.

It's pretty exciting. This was a really good game for us. I guess we may have gained a little respect, possibly. We knew people would be paying a little bit of attention, but I don't think people thought we would do that well so maybe we can prove it.

It's pretty exciting. We've never started off a national event with a win. This is huge and a great way to start off the week. This was a really good game for us.

They're pretty darn good, lead to skip, but we are too. We're not fearing them, but we just wish we would have had a better game against them.

This is the result of many, many hours of hard work and complete dedication to this goal. I couldn't find better teammates to play with. I'm very lucky.

They didn't give us much, not many opportunities. They played really well and we probably fought the conditions just a little bit. It was a little frosty out there tonight and we were kind of unsure of the ice. It's hard to come back when they're playing that well. We were always behind the eight-ball, it seemed.

Our confidence is really getting up there. If someone had told us beforehand we were going to start out 3-1 on the third day of play, we probably would have said 'right on, we'll take it.' It gives us a lot of confidence going onto the next game especially.