Cassie Campbell-Pascall on her fight for a place on the ice

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Becky Keller touches it ahead to Pounder. It's kept inside the line. Now Potter with it. Five seconds to go. Four. Broken up by Bottrill. Canada wins the gold on a red letter day in Salt Lake City. [crowd cheering]

The vibe in Salt Lake City was very different from four years before in Nagano when Canadian women played for Olympic gold and went down to a shocking defeat.

[upbeat music] Canada reclaiming the top of the heap in women's hockey as Cassie Campbell celebrates with her teammates. They were the underdogs, Margo. They hadn't beaten-

Salt Lake City was Canada's first gold medal in hockey in 50 years, and by the time she won it, Cassie Campbell was already one of the biggest names in women's hockey. She'd go on to anchor the team at the Turin Games and end her playing career with six world championships as well. But her impact has gone well beyond the ice as an advocate for the women's game and as a broadcaster. But as Cassie Campbell, now Cassie Campbell-Pascall, says in her new memoir, hockey's given her everything, but never for free. That book is called Just a Girl. It was written with the journalist Sean Fitzgerald, and Cassie joins us now from Calgary. Cassie, good morning.

Good morning, Matt. How are you?

I'm well. What is it like to hear the last few seconds of that gold medal game in Salt Lake City?

Oh, my gosh. That, I think that's one of the best things about writing a book is you do these interviews and all this old footage comes out of the woodwork. You know, hearing my teammates' names and, you know, for sure that moment is sort of engraved in your body, so to speak. Yeah, it's pretty cool.

But what's the deal, you say in this book that you can walk around your house and not know that one of the owners played 157 games with the Canadian women's hockey team. Like, do you hide all the medals and, and, and the gear away or what?

Yeah. You know, my medals are in a, a small bag in my home. I don't take them out very much. Uh, at the odd time, you know, an e- event asks me to bring them or whatever, but even then, I, I rarely bring them out of the house. And, um, I remember a story of my daughter, who's almost 16. She was in kindergarten, and she came home and she said, "Mommy, did you win some kind of medals or something?" [laughs]

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And I guess her teacher had told her, and so I showed them to her, and I hadn't taken them out of the bag in a, in a while, and she was kind of, "Oh," like, "That's it?" You know, like any five and six-year-old could. But I think now she kind of understands the history of it and, you know, we have pictures in the basement of different things. My husband was