What are your top three memories or moments of your on-ice career? Jayna Hefford: There are so many memories of being with your team and traveling on those long bus trips or around the world. But if I think about on-ice moments, I think that the top three would be winning gold in Salt Lake City, which was our first-ever Olympic gold medal for Canada and women’s hockey. And a few days later the men’s team won, and they hadn’t won in 52 years. So thatt feeling of redemption after losing in ‘98, but also coming back to a country that was just so proud. To have the men’s and women’s teams both come home with an Olympic gold medal, that was a pretty
special time. The second one would be 2010. Winning Olympic gold here in Canada, that was a totally different challenge, to be able to do it in your own country. And again, in a hockey-mad country, the intensity and the pressure and stresses that went along with that were different than any other Olympic Games. So that was a really special one to win. My third one would probably be my final Olympic Games, which was 2014 in Sochi and ended up being
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