For each of the five-plus seasons that Charlie Coyle has spent as a member of the Boston Bruins, and the two previous ones with the Minnesota Wild, he has taken the ice every night, almost every game, playing his relentless style of hockey, using his strength and power to muscle past opponents, his stickiness to grind them to dust on the penalty kill. “You get used to it at some point, like, this is what I'm dealing with,” Coyle said. As Coyle sits in the Bruins dressing room on this day late in the 2023-24 campaign, he's not exactly planning to reveal what he's been going through for the past seven seasons.
A disciple of the culture instilled by Bergeron and Zdeno Chara, Marchand has crafted his own identity as captain, routinely dragging his teammates into the fight. “We're building a culture and want it to stay and to remain the same,” Marchand said.
“Drop the puck!” is one of the most familiar refrains bellowed across NHL barns as fans, often mixing in an expletive here and there, try to remind officials they came to see the guys with the sticks not the fellas with the whistles. Geekie takes the same tact.
No | Player | P |
---|---|---|
19 | C | |
70 | C | |
55 | RW | |
70 | G | |
25 | D | |
13 | C | |
74 | LW | |
28 | D | |
11 | C | |
39 | C | |
48 | D | |
43 | LW | |
94 | C | |
27 | D | |
6 | D | |
17 | LW | |
63 | LW | |
61 | LW | |
73 | D | |
26 | C | |
88 | RW | |
52 | D | |
51 | C | |
12 | D | |
1 | G | |
35 | G | |
29 | D | |
18 | C | |
21 | LW |