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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This week was unique in the energy that it brought to this team and the players. It will springboard us through our last few weekends of the regular season and into the playoffs.
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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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Our team played with great balance tonight. If each line can go out there and keep the tempo at a high level, it makes it very difficult for the other team to play against that.
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He just has to do his part, let his teammates do their part and we should come out all right.
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I just think they didn't handle the riddle of having a team come back on them.
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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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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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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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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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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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It was my contention that if we had another day or two to rest and recover we would have been better prepared. It's a little similar right now. While those other teams are having to play that extra game, we have the luxury of having a day to rest and recover.
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The only thing we ever asked is they'd be the hardest-working boy on the ice, whether it's practice or games. Above and beyond that, that's all you can ask. I think that helps create a healthy relationship.
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When you lose a key figure in your machinery, you obviously have to have some adaptation. Just think how the Pittsburgh Steelers would've been if they would've lost their quarterback going into the Super Bowl; it gives you a completely different look. That's the kind of position (goalie) is.
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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.