It feels right. But it's emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you've done that long is hard.

I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.

That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.

I look at myself, and how much I've gotten just because I play a sport well.

I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.

Right now, I'm standing behind the glass, and I guess that's a metaphor for how my life will be going forward.

There were no women's players I knew of. I didn't even know women's hockey existed.