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...
game national opening questions tournament
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.
formula hit puck seeing
I'm going to need some Grecian Formula after seeing that puck hit the post.
handle riddle team
I just think they didn't handle the riddle of having a team come back on them.
confident feeling felt inside
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.
earlier surprised timing
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.
buy coach college craig kids passed players strength talented worked
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.
credit guess playing
I guess we can take some credit with how well they're playing right now.
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?
advantage earned matter
Don't you think we've earned it? It's not a matter of advantage. We earned the No. 1 rating, and it makes sense to put us up there, so I think we've earned it.
early nice numbers tonight
(Elliott) demonstrated tonight how he got those numbers early in the season. It was nice to see that for him.
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.
against forge games growth home opportunity ourselves quality talked team took type weekend winning
The whole weekend was an opportunity of growth for us as a team. We took that opportunity by winning two games here at home against a quality team. We talked about before the game that it was an opportunity for us to grow and forge ourselves into the type of team we want to have at the end of the year, when we can do some things.
came great guy hard jumps mental page tremendous
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.