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...
jam
If he's ready, then we'd look at it. But we're not going to go in there and jam it down his throat.
answer league reputation within
I can't answer that. I know within our league that reputation is there.
prudent
I don't think that would be very prudent on our part.
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That's a big factor, the recruiting factor and being able to state that we have the highest average attendance and what a great building it is to play in. The other thing that it does is, for our guys, they (the fans) become a factor in the game. We can feed off the energy that they give us.
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That's a college hockey game that everybody will be talking about for a long, long time. When you play in a game like this, the will has to be greater than the skill and the will of both teams not to give in was just tremendous to watch.
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That's a college hockey game that everybody in the building will be talking about for a long time.
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It's truly a thrill to be asked to coach the U.S. Men's National Team. I'm looking forward to the challenge.
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.
brian point turning
The turning point was Brian Elliott. He was outstanding.
analogy doctor feeling game tonight
You could use the analogy that tonight was what the doctor ordered. The outcome, the game itself, was like a B-12 shot. We're feeling better.
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The guys talked about how Michigan came out and dictated. That's one thing this group wanted to do, to implement that part of the game, and they did a pretty fine job.
breakdown defensive
It was like if you were a defensive back, that was a breakdown and the guy's got a seam for a touchdown.
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It was my contention that if we had another day or two to rest and recover we would have been better prepared. It's a little similar right now. While those other teams are having to play that extra game, we have the luxury of having a day to rest and recover.
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I'm going to need some Grecian Formula after seeing that puck hit the post.