{"id":102456,"date":"2021-03-03T18:13:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T23:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=102456"},"modified":"2021-03-03T18:13:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T23:13:09","slug":"nhl-adds-boston-bruins-charlie-coyle-covid-protocol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/03\/03\/nhl-adds-boston-bruins-charlie-coyle-covid-protocol\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Adds Boston Bruins Charlie Coyle To COVID Protocol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/bruins\/\" target=\"_self\">Boston Bruins<\/a> will be without forward <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/coylech01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Charlie Coyle<\/a><\/strong> for the future as the skater has been placed on the league&#8217;s COVID protocol list. This comes just hours before the team is scheduled to battle the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/capitals\/\" target=\"_self\">Washington Capitals<\/a>. Stephen Whyno of the AP announced Coyle&#8217;s addition late Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NHLBruins?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NHLBruins<\/a>\u2019 Charlie Coyle added to NHL COVID protocol list, out tonight against Capitals. He\u2019s fourth player on list.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stephen Whyno (@SWhyno) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SWhyno\/status\/1367241526343049218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 3, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>NHL Adds Bruins&#8217; Charlie Coyle To COVID Protocol<\/h2>\n<p>Coyle has been an important part of Boston&#8217;s depth in 2020-21. The 28-year-old skater has five goals and eight points in 19 games. He also has a respectable 20 hits and eight blocks while playing in almost every situation. Some of Coyle&#8217;s underlying stats are just average; he has a 50.3 Corsi For with a -4.7 relative Corsi, but the traditional numbers are strong at this time. It&#8217;s exactly what Boston needs to support its signature &#8220;perfection&#8221; line.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/sharks\/\" target=\"_self\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> originally drafted Coyle in the first round of the 2010 Draft but traded him to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/wild\/\" target=\"_self\">Minnesota Wild<\/a> in 2011 as part of a package that included <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/burnsbr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brent Burns<\/a><\/strong>. Coyle skated for the Wild from 2012-13 through the midway point of 2018-19. That is when Minnesota traded the Massachusetts native to Boston in exchange for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/donatry01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Donato<\/a><\/strong> and a late pick in the 2019 Draft that became Cade Webber. Overall, Coyle has 114 goals and 293 points in 589 regular-season games. He also has 19 goals and 36 points in 81 postseason games.<\/p>\n<p>[pickup_prop id=&#8221;4465&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h3>How Boston Replaces Coyle<\/h3>\n<p>Boston will need to do some shuffling within its middle-six, but there are options available. Youngster <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/studnja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jack Studnicka<\/a><\/strong> could move up the depth chart with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mckeggr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greg McKegg<\/a><\/strong> filling in as the centre for the fourth-line behind him. The taxi squad also currently has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kuhlmka01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Karson Kuhlman<\/a><\/strong> available to play down the middle if absolutely necessary. This weakens the Bruins&#8217; depth, but they should be able to weather this absence without too much difficulty. The only real concern is who might step up on the bottom-six if Coyle is out long-term. Boston was still fairly top-heavy even before this recent event.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"aPgimuG5Qe58PicGKeOliA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1305160202\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'aPgimuG5Qe58PicGKeOliA',sig:'y5kMnF3AhCH6wIHhEFnYNQSK9JjDMoWuXVwXQkT4aTU=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1305160202',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Bruins will be without forward Charlie Coyle for the future as the skater has been placed on the league&#8217;s COVID protocol list. This comes just hours before the team is scheduled to battle the Washington Capitals. Stephen Whyno of the AP announced Coyle&#8217;s addition late Wednesday afternoon. #NHLBruins\u2019 Charlie Coyle added to NHL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3127,"featured_media":102460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4547,34,4548],"tags":[6120,6620,4675,5738,955],"class_list":["post-102456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bruins","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-boston-bruins-news","tag-charlie-coyle-news","tag-covid-19","tag-hockey-news","tag-nhl-news"],"modified_by":"Josh Erickson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}