Jenny Potter
Jenny Potter
Jennifer Lynn Schmidgall-Potteris an American ice hockey player. She is a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team. She won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics, silver medals at the 2002 Winter Olympics and 2010 Winter Olympics, and a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics. Currently, she plays for the Minnesota Whitecaps of the Western Women's Hockey League, where she won the league championship and was named MVP for the 2008–09 season. She was...
basically biggest factor game won
She basically won the game for them. She was the biggest factor why they won today.
gotten talking
I've gotten better about talking more and being a leader,
brings bury eyes stood tears
Their goalie stood on her head, and we didn't bury it. It's hard. It brings tears to my eyes. I think we outplayed them.
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We were excited to go out and redeem ourselves. We wanted to show the rest of the world we're a great team. We worked hard this year. We weren't going to throw it away because of one game. We wanted that bronze medal.
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Because I'm one of the older players, I'm more of a role model, ... I'm someone to look toward for the younger kids. Our job as veterans is to show how it's done.
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At other levels you get a hundred chances to score. Where I came from, I was a top player. When you get here you take every chance you get.
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The store I work with, they've been fantastic, working around my schedule, being able for me to train when it's convenient and letting me go for tournaments and coming back and just working around my schedule has been great.
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She's a solid goalie who's been playing really well. When we played (Mankato) in college, she was the backbone of their team. She really helped them out and saved a lot of games or made close ones out of others that would've been blowouts.
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She basically won the game for them; she stood on her head.
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Obviously, it's disappointing, but we have another game to win. It's hard. It brings tears to my eyes. But we've got to walk away from this with something.
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It's great for women's hockey to see that it's not just U.S. and Canada across the board.
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It's a great victory for their country and program. I just wish it didn't have to happen tonight.
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It starts with the goalie out. They worked hard and played a hard game, and unfortunately it came down to a shootout, which to me isn't really a true championship. It comes down to one-on-one, and that's not a hockey game.
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We've used some money to get a dog carrier for Beans and also a leash and collar with the Marine Corps eagle, globe and anchor emblem on them.