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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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.
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That's the first thing that kind of jumps off the page at you, what kind of guy he is. As we came to discover, he's just a tremendous hard worker. He's got a great mental outlook.
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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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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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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 nice, because we are creating more of an emotional tie to that area, because of the fact that we've been there so much recently.
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The turning point was Brian Elliott. He was outstanding.
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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.
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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.
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When you talk about big players you talk about Brian Elliott.
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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.
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We definitely saw glimpses of Brian like we did before.