166 ordspråk av Mike Eaves
Mike Eaves
There's so many teams that could be where we are right now that I think last year was just an anomaly.
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They didn't have one of their better nights.
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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.
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They were a positive force. That was their job. They did it very well.
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They won races to the puck. They won little intimate battles in the corner with their body position, with their sticks, and in the trenches. That's kind of where the difference was, I feel.
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They're a close enough group and an old enough group that one of the things they talked about was being able to be pretty honest with each other and do it in a good way, and hold each other accountable in a way that's a positive. That's one of the things that's part of our overall plan. Good teams are able to do that, to hold each other accountable but do it in such a way that you can grow from it.
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They're looking for young talent. They're a team right now that's in a little bit of a changing-over period.
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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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This is the exciting part of the year. Now it's coming down to the wire.
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This tournament sold out before the tournament starts because people want to come see college hockey at its finest hour.
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This was a great weekend for us. Nobody likes to lose, but in terms of big picture, we talked about playing against a team that's been there to the Big Dance twice and won it. It some areas we were schooled.
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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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Those are all the little things that are the foundation of the game, and if you don't do those things, you're not going to win. We did more of those good things tonight than we've done in a while.
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Three of them (in the second period) were Grade-A scoring chances.
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Tonight was what the doctor ordered. Tonight, the game itself, the outcome was like a B12 shot. We're feeling better.
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