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...
best good laying plays spinning top
For those of you who don't know Ross Carlson, he makes his best plays when he's spinning like a top or he's laying on his back or he's on his knees. I like to see him down in those positions, because, usually, good things happen.
teammates
He just has to do his part, let his teammates do their part and we should come out all right.
head skill
He has the head for that, the skill for that.
anxiety capable early freely goal notch second skate terms took
That early goal (in the second period) really took us another notch down in terms of anxiety that we had. We started to skate more freely and do the things were capable of. That was a big step.
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.
handle riddle team
I just think they didn't handle the riddle of having a team come back on them.
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.
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.
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.
reference represents surrogate
He's like a surrogate grandfather. He represents a reference you can always go back to.
prudent
I don't think that would be very prudent on our part.
fantastic offensive
He's not going to give you fantastic offensive flair, but he's never going to let you down defensively.
best generally good group hoping pulling speaks teammates understand
He's got a good group of teammates. They're pulling for him. I think that speaks to Shane as a person. I think his teammates generally like him and they're hoping the best for him. They understand what he's up against.