Players from both Great Britain and Canada acknowledged the amount of times they’ve faced one another in previous tournaments, and they know they have a formidable opponent on the other side of the ice.
“They’re a great team,” said Canada’s Brett Gallant. “They’ve been the No. 1 team in the world for a while now. We just know that makes it easy for us. We know we’ve got to play great, we’ve got to play our game and do everything we can to do our best. But we know if we do all those things, if we show up, then we’re going to give them everything they can handle.”
“It will be a very good game,” Mouat said. “They’ve obviously got a lot of experience. Most of them have been in the gold medal game before. We’ve played them millions and millions of times it feels like, so it’ll be a good game and I’m excited to play against them in the Olympic final.”
When it comes to the key for preparing for Saturday’s final, both teams had the same answer: sleep.
“It’s a day of rest for us, which is nice,” Lammie said. “Let the bodies rest because we had to work so hard for that one. We’ll be feeling that a bit tomorrow… Rest up, get plenty of food, and just excited to curl an Olympic final. Saying you’ve been in two now is a pretty cool feeling.”
“Lots of rest,” Jacobs said. “I think one of keys to coming out and playing like we did tonight and getting that win was actually the rest we had in between games. And now we’ve got quite a long stretch off… so lots of rest, fuel up, and figure out what we’ve got to do in order to be great in one more game here.”