Modifié 10 avr. à 9 h 25
Charlie coyle for selke please.
Over 60% d zone starts all year. 200 minutes pk icetime.
1G/60, close to 2A/60. (Both career highs).
Kinda almost doubled his career hits best season.
Plays like every important defensive minute he could for a team who lost 1 1/2 centers (Bergeron, krejci sorta) and has been a playoff lock all season.
Charlie Coyle is the definition of the best defensive forward in the nhl.
I like guys like Auston Matthews playing 200ft - is winning hockey.
But guys like him simply do not get the challenging defensive icetime a skater like coyle gets. Skaters used for heavy offense don’t get the d icetime to earn the award. Maybe that’s unfair, but I bet Charlie coyle would score a bunch more, have a bunch of inflated stats, if he was at 60+ ozone starts, more pp time, rest during opposing teams push. Coyle should be recognized with a nomination at least, last year was a tragedy, as he was asked to set the table for his aging top line, set nhl regular season points record with him at 70% dzone draws.
I’d personally vote:
Marner (to win, because he is the best all things considered 200 foot forward and it overcomes his slightly offensive usage bias, and maybe that bias exists because of him creating ozone draws), Coyle, then I think you could give nominations to Barkov, Kopitar, Lowry, maybe even like Jamie Benn, Robert Thomas, nick suzuki, Nico hieschier.
I wouldn’t personally vote Crosby or Matthews even tho they’re goats, they just don’t get the job the others get, and they have their own categories of awards to win. Even if they’re both better at being a 200 foot forward than the award winner.
I’m probs missing somebody obvious it’s early.