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...
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That's going to be one of the things we talk about. Who's going to turn up the volume?
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The way we played didn't give them a chance to get any life.
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This game went in phases for us. We got off to a great start, and North Dakota got back into it. We didn't respond like we needed to. We didn't handle the riddle of having a team come back on us.
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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.
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I just think they didn't handle the riddle of having a team come back on them.
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I'm kind of surprised at the timing of it. I thought if this was going to happen, it would've been earlier this summer.
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I guess we can take some credit with how well they're playing right now.
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In the opening game of a national tournament there is questions because you know its could be one and done. It was important to get that lead.
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If you take a look at longevity, Craig passed that test. Craig's strength as a college coach was to get kids to buy into his vision, and he worked that strength. He got a lot of talented players to come there.
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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.
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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.
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(Hook is) a really good player and just took the game over in the fourth quarter. She has my full respect.
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He's like a surrogate grandfather. He represents a reference you can always go back to.
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He's not going to give you fantastic offensive flair, but he's never going to let you down defensively.