Mike Eaves
Mike Eaves
Michael Gordon Eavesis a Canadian American former NHL player and the current head coach of the St. Olaf College men's hockey team. He is the former head coach of the Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey team. Eaves appeared in 324 NHL regular season games between 1978 and 1985, and has coached since 1985. His father, Cecil Eaves, is a former Denver University ice hockey and football player who became a professor and hockey coach at Ohio State and the University...
brian definitely saw
We definitely saw glimpses of Brian like we did before.
fact game learn lesson talked
We briefly talked about the fact that it happened. We said let's be intelligent about it and learn a lesson here, and let's play the game we want to play.
brian players talk
When you talk about big players you talk about Brian Elliott.
false guys higher relish turning unless volume
I don't want earplugs in their ears. I want them to relish that. Because unless you relish it, having earplugs is a false way to play. You've got to be able to play at a higher level, and I don't think earplugs are going to do any good. I want earplugs out. I want our guys turning the volume up.
care couple given gotten head mark ourselves
He's gotten his imprint on that (program) and he's done it as a head coach, which I know is something that Mark really wanted to do. And now we're on that same path. We've got a couple more things we need to take care of, but we've given ourselves that chance, too.
head skill
He has the head for that, the skill for that.
good player
I'm a good player and I'm going to show you once again.
draw low saw
We thought we saw something where we could draw them up, get it low and take what was given.
teammates
He just has to do his part, let his teammates do their part and we should come out all right.
looking nobody pride sports
I can tell you this explicitly, that nobody was looking at this as just a third-place game. There was a lot of pride on the line.
brought energy few last regular season team unique week weekends
This week was unique in the energy that it brought to this team and the players. It will springboard us through our last few weekends of the regular season and into the playoffs.
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When you lose a key figure in your machinery, you obviously have to have some adaptation. Just think how the Pittsburgh Steelers would've been if they would've lost their quarterback going into the Super Bowl; it gives you a completely different look. That's the kind of position (goalie) is.
though truly understand year
Even though we've slipped a little bit, we understand that at the end of the year is when it truly matters.
battles bring grateful head knows mind staying until
Being the head recruiter, he knows the battles that we're up against. I'm just grateful that he's staying with it. He's got some other things in mind because he knows when we bring (recruits) here, until we get a new building, we have to spruce this up.