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...
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.
great internal joe last left picked reason slide slump sophomore
Joe has picked up right where he left off last season. There has been no sophomore slump or slide of any kind. I think part of the reason is that Joe has great internal motivation.
head skill
He has the head for that, the skill for that.
fact game learn lesson talked
We briefly talked about the fact that it happened. We said let's be intelligent about it and learn a lesson here, and let's play the game we want to play.
brian players talk
When you talk about big players you talk about Brian Elliott.
scoring second three
Three of them (in the second period) were Grade-A scoring chances.
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.
beat fear maybe
We know they can beat us. Maybe that will put a little fear in our hearts.
brian bunch chances control definitely grade knew nice puck saw scoring
We definitely saw glimpses of the Brian that we knew before. I don't think he had a bunch of Grade A scoring chances against, but when he had to see the puck and control it, he did a nice job.
brian definitely saw
We definitely saw glimpses of Brian like we did before.
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.
needed talking
I didn't say a word. The penalty-killers jumped up and they started talking about what they needed to do.
fourth full game good player took
(Hook is) a really good player and just took the game over in the fourth quarter. She has my full respect.
reference represents surrogate
He's like a surrogate grandfather. He represents a reference you can always go back to.