"Michael Gordon Eaves" is a Canadian former National Hockey League/NHL player and the current 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 of Windsor. Eaves is also the father of current Dallas Stars forward Patrick Eaves and current SM-Liiga Jokerit forward Ben Eaves and brother of former NHL player Murray Eaves.

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We definitely saw glimpses of the Brian that we knew before. I don't think he had a bunch of Grade A scoring chances against, but when he had to see the puck and control it, he did a nice job.

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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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That's going to be one of the things we talk about. Who's going to turn up the volume?

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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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Before the game, they hadn't felt that feeling of what it's like to be a confident team. After the game, they have that inside out now.

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This is the exciting part of the year. Now it's coming down to the wire.

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That was the best start we could have hoped for.

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It's all good. We're getting healthy again.

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You could use the analogy that tonight was what the doctor ordered. The outcome, the game itself, was like a B-12 shot. We're feeling better.

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