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...
nice step wants
He's skating, and that's a step. He's still a big step away from being ready. It's nice to see him out here and I know he desperately wants to get back in.
teammates
He just has to do his part, let his teammates do their part and we should come out all right.
dakota north stayed themselves
North Dakota stayed with it and got themselves back in the game. It's at that point, I don't think we responded very well.
learn skull thick trying
As individuals learn at different rates, so do teams. Apparently, we have a pretty thick skull right now. We're still trying to learn this lesson.
anxiety capable early freely goal notch second skate terms took
That early goal (in the second period) really took us another notch down in terms of anxiety that we had. We started to skate more freely and do the things were capable of. That was a big step.
handle riddle team
I just think they didn't handle the riddle of having a team come back on them.
confident feeling felt inside
Before the game, they hadn't felt that feeling of what it's like to be a confident team. After the game, they have that inside out now.
early saturate stage
It's like anything, you saturate the market. But we're still in that early stage of being one of the first three, and I think that's pretty neat.
capable excited game help hype pick talk talked year
You keep your routine. You talk about the things you've talked about all year and you go out and play. I think sometimes when you try to hype it and you get excited and you're all wired, they're going to pick up on that, and that doesn't help them play the game they're capable of playing.
scoring second three
Three of them (in the second period) were Grade-A scoring chances.
brian players talk
When you talk about big players you talk about Brian Elliott.
apply becomes game lesson men profound talked tried year
We've tried to apply that lesson all year. It's a very profound game for these young men because we've talked about it all year and we've talked about it as a group. It's the application of the lesson that becomes the important part.
draw low saw
We thought we saw something where we could draw them up, get it low and take what was given.
game hockey playing start talk team whenever
Whenever you talk about the game of hockey and if your team is playing well or if your team is struggling, you always start with the person that's playing between the pipes.