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...
against balance difficult great high line played team tempo
Our team played with great balance tonight. If each line can go out there and keep the tempo at a high level, it makes it very difficult for the other team to play against that.
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.
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.
talk turn
That's going to be one of the things we talk about. Who's going to turn up the volume?
coming exciting
This is the exciting part of the year. Now it's coming down to the wire.
chance played
The way we played didn't give them a chance to get any life.
dakota game great handle needed north phases respond riddle team
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.
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.
destiny maybe meeting ourselves prepared worked
I think destiny is preparation meeting opportunity, but there's an X-factor that's uncontrollable, and maybe that X-factor was being here in Wisconsin. But we worked hard. We prepared ourselves for this opportunity.
anticipate move playing quick rather saw
I saw him move a little too quick at times - anticipate rather than be patient. But I think that just comes from not playing for a while. I know he'll get better as we go along.
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.
care couple given gotten head mark ourselves
He's gotten his imprint on that (program) and he's done it as a head coach, which I know is something that Mark really wanted to do. And now we're on that same path. We've got a couple more things we need to take care of, but we've given ourselves that chance, too.
life
Robbie has had disappointment in his life before and he's always bounced back.