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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I'm a good player and I'm going to show you once again.
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We were riding a really good wave. But when you've been around this game long enough, you know you're going to hit some storms.
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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.
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(Hook is) a really good player and just took the game over in the fourth quarter. She has my full respect.
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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.
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We were playing 1-on-4 hockey. One guy would have the puck and everybody else would watch him instead of 4-on-1 with everybody working for the guy with the puck.
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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.
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(Elliott) demonstrated tonight how he got those numbers early in the season. It was nice to see that for him.
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Even though we've slipped a little bit, we understand that at the end of the year is when it truly matters.
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Being the head recruiter, he knows the battles that we're up against. I'm just grateful that he's staying with it. He's got some other things in mind because he knows when we bring (recruits) here, until we get a new building, we have to spruce this up.
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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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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.
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That was the best start we could have hoped for.