John Gordon Perrin, Player of Canada
“It’s our first match in the Olympic Games and we’re getting used to the stadium. We just wanted to have a good first match and focus on our play and we were able to put pressure on them, in the end we made the win.”
“It’s a major win for us. If we want to move on, we have to win matches like this. It’s a good start for the tournament and I hope we can produce more wins.”
“We went to the Olympic qualifiers, which was long and gruelling. We played a lot of matches in a short amount of time, we ended up making it in and we played World League Group 2, which we were kind of worried about because we wanted to keep the high level. We were able to keep a high level and here we are.”
Gavin Schmitt, Player of Canada
“We are fairly pleased, it was nice to get some of the jitters out in the first set and open up on a win. It was great to see the guys just performing very well and USA played us tough and we’re happy to come away with the win.”
“For me the motivation to be performing is this right here (pointing to the Canadian flag on his jersey). We’re here to represent Canada and we all want to represent our country well, and we want to prove that we can compete with anybody and we can beat anybody. We are just here to make Canada proud, and play well and get some wins.”