Saying Nelson isn’t a center is like saying Coyle is a left winger. Lead his team in faceoffs, doubled the faceoffs Coyle took this past season. Try again.
White and Dvorak are right around the same points that Coyle put up.
Hayes is better than Coyle. 4 of 5 seasons with 42 or more points. Coyle has only broken 40 points 2 of 6 seasons (disregarding 12-13 for shortened season).
This whole thread started because Coyle went on one of his hot streaks. OP completely disregards that Coyle only had 2+4 in the 21 regular season games (23pt 82 game pace). Hot streak meet cold streak.
I’ll take the greater sample size as an indicator instead of one hot streak that lead to a Cup Finals appearance. 500 games vs 24 games.
Coyle was the definition of big and shows flashes. The majority of the time he got away with disappearing because he was big and he was our only right winger.
Hot streak meet cold streak..lol.
You think the fact that Coyle was traded to a team
and needed time to acclimate and had a revolving
door of linemates in those RS games had something
to do with the low ppg rate? I watched almost every game he played for Boston and one thing that stuck out even in those RS games was his puck possession ability.
Bruins fans were anazed how snakebitten he was given how good his PP was.
I'm from Boston and have watched Colin White
at the NCAA/NHL a lot. At the end of the 18-19
season White is no way better than Coyle, not a chance.