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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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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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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You keep your routine. You talk about the things you've talked about all year and you go out and play. I think sometimes when you try to hype it and you get excited and you're all wired, they're going to pick up on that, and that doesn't help them play the game they're capable of playing.
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We've tried to apply that lesson all year. It's a very profound game for these young men because we've talked about it all year and we've talked about it as a group. It's the application of the lesson that becomes the important part.
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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.
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Whenever you talk about the game of hockey and if your team is playing well or if your team is struggling, you always start with the person that's playing between the pipes.
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We briefly talked about the fact that it happened. We said let's be intelligent about it and learn a lesson here, and let's play the game we want to play.
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When you talk about big players you talk about Brian Elliott.
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That's going to be one of the things we talk about. Who's going to turn up the volume?
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The guys talked about how Michigan came out and dictated. That's one thing this group wanted to do, to implement that part of the game, and they did a pretty fine job.
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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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(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.