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...
aggressive eventually goal tough
When she's aggressive and getting to the rim, she's awfully tough to stop. Our goal was to get some shots, and eventually we started to get them.
doctor feeling game outcome tonight
Tonight was what the doctor ordered. Tonight, the game itself, the outcome was like a B12 shot. We're feeling better.
everybody guy instead playing puck watch
We were playing 1-on-4 hockey. One guy would have the puck and everybody else would watch him instead of 4-on-1 with everybody working for the guy with the puck.
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.
base build focus heart rewarding
One thing we wanted to focus on was the heart. That's the base of our pyramid, so it was probably the most rewarding thing because we can now build on that.
came dictated game guys michigan talked team
The thing that came out of that game, what guys talked about, (was) the way Michigan came out and dictated. They were a senior-laden team and they came out and they dictated the game in that first period.
advantage earned matter
Don't you think we've earned it? It's not a matter of advantage. We earned the No. 1 rating, and it makes sense to put us up there, so I think we've earned it.
early nice numbers tonight
(Elliott) demonstrated tonight how he got those numbers early in the season. It was nice to see that for him.
against forge games growth home opportunity ourselves quality talked team took type weekend winning
The whole weekend was an opportunity of growth for us as a team. We took that opportunity by winning two games here at home against a quality team. We talked about before the game that it was an opportunity for us to grow and forge ourselves into the type of team we want to have at the end of the year, when we can do some things.
fact pulled reputation
Sometimes he does get pulled down, but the fact is, he does have that reputation.
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.
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.
coming exciting
This is the exciting part of the year. Now it's coming down to the wire.
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.