BOSTON BRUINS QUOTES CHARLIE COYLE ACQUISITION CONFERENCE CALL Thursday, February 21, 2019
BOSTON BRUINS QUOTES CHARLIE COYLE ACQUISITION CONFERENCE CALL Thursday, February 21, 2019 BOSTON BRUINS GENERAL MANAGER DON SWEENEY Opening statement… We’re excited to be adding Charlie Coyle to the Boston Bruins in exchange for Ryan Donato and a conditional 5th round pick. We wish Ryan Donato very well – a special young man and he will have a long career in the National Hockey League, so we wish him well. Really the impetus behind the trade for us was to provide more depth to our lineup. Especially 5-on-5, I think the balance in scoring is something that as of late we’ve done a real good job of but, it’s an area we needed to address. It also gives us a two-position player with size and strength and speed that we can move around the lineup and feel comfortable in a bunch of different positions and a bunch of different roles. On if Coyle is similar to players the team has tried to acquire in the past… Contrary to you, I was happy that David Backes scored the shootout winner last night. I think the two players are not necessarily connected in that regard. Charlie is a lot younger player. We do feel that his natural position is center. He has been used a lot at wing in a top six role. A definitive, top-nine player that has been in the top four or five players in Minnesota for the past five years in 5-on-5 production. He can help drive a line, as well support and complement players if you want to play him in a production role, be it with it [David] Krejci or who knows.
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