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...
atmosphere faced
They know the kind of raucous atmosphere they're in for. They've faced it all year, so I don't think there's much preparation we need to do with them.
life
Robbie has had disappointment in his life before and he's always bounced back.
talk turn
That's going to be one of the things we talk about. Who's going to turn up the volume?
asked coach forward looking national thrill truly
It's truly a thrill to be asked to coach the U.S. Men's National Team. I'm looking forward to the challenge.
building college everybody game hockey talking
That's a college hockey game that everybody in the building will be talking about for a long time.
fact pulled reputation
Sometimes he does get pulled down, but the fact is, he does have that reputation.
competing game level overall physically seen
I think Joe's overall game has seen him competing physically at a better level this season. He'll be even better after working out all summer.
needed talking
I didn't say a word. The penalty-killers jumped up and they started talking about what they needed to do.
credit guess playing
I guess we can take some credit with how well they're playing right now.
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.
coming exciting
This is the exciting part of the year. Now it's coming down to the wire.
concept fix hard less understand
I think most guys, when they see a problem, they want to fix it. Sometimes less is more, and that's a hard concept for all of us to understand at times.
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.
ability account effective hard joe offensive skill
Joe has the ability to make something out of nothing, and it's hard to account for skill like that. That makes him an effective offensive player.