Mike Eaves
| Mike Eaves | |||
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| Born |
June 10, 1956 Denver, CO, USA |
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| Height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) | ||
| Weight | 180 lb (82 kg; 12 st 12 lb) | ||
| Position | Centre | ||
| Shot | Right | ||
| Played for |
Minnesota North Stars Calgary Flames |
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| National team |
 United States
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| NHL Draft | 113th overall, 1976 St. Louis Blues |
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| Playing career | 1978–1986 | ||
Michael Gordon Eaves (born June 10, 1956) is 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 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.
Eaves grew up in Ontario where he played junior hockey for the Nepean Raiders.
From 1974 to 1978 he played for the University of Wisconsin–Madison hockey team, where he was a two-time All-American and a member of Coach Bob Johnson's 1977 NCAA championship team. Eaves remains the Badgers' all-time leading career scorer with 267 points (94 goals, 173 assists) in 160 games. He was also a member of the United States national team at the 1976 and 1978 Ice Hockey World Championship tournaments.
He was selected 113th overall in the 1976 NHL Entry Draft by St. Louis, who traded his rights to the Cleveland Barons for Len Frig in 1977. Eaves ended up on the Minnesota North Stars roster after the Barons and North Stars were merged in 1978.
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