The difference between them and a team of hard-working players like Windsor is that Owen Sound has Bobby Ryan. He's a great player -- he's all finesse and he made a lot of great plays against Kitchener.

A guy like Adam, you want to get him the shutout and you feel bad for him when they score late on him like that. He deserves it. He stops everything for us.

Hey, it might have looked like we were tired because when you're at the end of a four-minute shift, you are tired. But you recover quickly on the bench. I feel rejuvenated today, ready to go.

Canada lost a lot of guys from the team that won the (2005) gold medal. But you can't put the best team in the tournament together every single year. You can only put together what you have.

I'm the go-to guy like Corey was last year. Actually, last year, we had seven guys who were go-to guys and it was amazing. But this year, we've come together as a team. We have our own identity and we know what it takes to win.

I hadn't even heard of the world junior tournament until I came to Canada. I was 16 before I saw a game and I had no idea it was played over Christmas.

I want to be more of a leader. I don't want to be the 13th forward who just gets time on the power play. I want to be a go-to guy.

That got us boiling. Maybe he should be in junior B, I don't know. But we came out the last three games and proved to him what we're all about.

There's a lot of skill on this team, a lot of grit, a lot of everything. We've got big, fast, skilled forwards, so it's a pretty good team and well put together.

There was the pressure of winning our way in because nobody wanted to hear anybody say we were lucky. We set all those records and we felt we had to continue winning and get in the right way.