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Charlie Coyle
Columbus Blue Jackets Center
35 points across two clubs at 33, and a third-line centre acquired for a fourth-line price.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-13 | MIN | 37 | 8 | 6 | 14 | +3 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 50 | 16.0 | 15:04 |
| 2013-14 | MIN | 70 | 12 | 18 | 30 | -7 | 33 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 135 | 8.9 | 17:05 |
| 2014-15 | MIN | 82 | 11 | 24 | 35 | +13 | 39 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 120 | 9.2 | 14:33 |
| 2015-16 | MIN | 82 | 21 | 21 | 42 | +1 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 140 | 15.0 | 17:18 |
| 2016-17 | MIN | 82 | 18 | 38 | 56 | +13 | 36 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 159 | 11.3 | 16:42 |
| 2017-18 | MIN | 66 | 11 | 26 | 37 | +8 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 117 | 9.4 | 16:32 |
| 2018-19 | MIN/BOS | 81 | 12 | 22 | 34 | -1 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 155 | 7.7 | 16:46 |
| 2019-20 | BOS | 70 | 16 | 21 | 37 | +9 | 21 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 145 | 11.0 | 16:47 |
| 2020-21 | BOS | 51 | 6 | 10 | 16 | -4 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 79 | 7.6 | 16:17 |
| 2021-22 | BOS | 82 | 16 | 28 | 44 | -6 | 32 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 131 | 12.2 | 17:24 |
| 2022-23 | BOS | 82 | 16 | 29 | 45 | +29 | 30 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 139 | 11.5 | 16:59 |
| 2023-24 | BOS | 82 | 25 | 35 | 60 | -2 | 38 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 147 | 17.0 | 18:04 |
| 2024-25 | BOS/COL | 83 | 17 | 18 | 35 | -9 | 24 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 115 | 14.8 | 16:59 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 950 | 189 | 296 | 485 | +47 | 355 | 25 | 8 | 38 | 1632 | 11.6 | 16:44 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
17 goals and 18 assists in 83 games for 35 points, minus-9, on 16:59 a night between Boston and Colorado.
49.3 per cent at five-on-five, the 43rd percentile. 52 per cent of his shots came from inside 20 feet at a median of 19, which is a man who only goes to the net, and 14.8 per cent conversion is the natural consequence.
The Finesse Game
The hands are good in tight and always have been. He protects pucks below the goal line, finds a seam from behind the net, and gets to the front of it — none of which requires the pace he no longer has.
115 shots is modest volume and 18 assists is thin for a centre playing 17 minutes. The offensive ceiling was reached some years ago and the game has been redirected toward the parts that age well.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 221, and this is the reason he keeps having a job. He is very hard to move off a puck, wins the wall, and can play a heavy playoff series.
24 penalty minutes over 83 games is disciplined. The durability is exceptional — eight consecutive seasons above 70 games in a contact-heavy role.
The Intangibles
Thirteen seasons, a long run in Boston as the third-line centre on a very good team, a deadline move, and a summer trade to a rebuilding club.
At 33 he is a third-line centre who takes defensive-zone draws and plays the last minute of a period. On a club with Fantilli and Sillinger both learning, that is a genuinely useful thing to have in the room and on the ice.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,027 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.3%
- 44th pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.1%
- 33rd pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 38 for, 34 against. Expected: 38.0 and 39.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 23 points above where the numbers do. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
Both bars are percentiles among the 315 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 76 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.
Usual linemates
2024-25 with BOS · 856 minutes at five-on-five
Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.
Why the numbers land there
Five-on-five, 2024-25
- The club
- COL took 53.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.3% — 3.9 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 1,027 minutes at five-on-five — 65th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brad Marchand | 48.9% | 49.5% | 50.3% |
| Nikita Zadorov | 46.7% | 50.6% | 50.1% |
| Elias Lindholm | 45.6% | 50.9% | 50.1% |
48.9% together, 49.5% for him apart and 50.3% for Marchand apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
175 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 18 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 53% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 13% from beyond forty.