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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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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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.
creating emotional fact tie
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.
brian point turning
The turning point was Brian Elliott. He was outstanding.
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It's truly a thrill to be asked to coach the U.S. Men's National Team. I'm looking forward to the challenge.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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The thing that came out of that game, what guys talked about, (was) the way Michigan came out and dictated. They were a senior-laden team and they came out and they dictated the game in that first period.
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Sometimes he does get pulled down, but the fact is, he does have that reputation.
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I can't answer that. I know within our league that reputation is there.