He was attached to Staal's hip just the season prior, where Granlund was with Koivu. Staal is a far better offensive player than Koivu, yet Granlund still scored more goals in a heavy defensive deployment compared to Coyle and his more offensive deployment.if you minus powerplay goals, they are more on par with each other stat wise. also if you factor in linemates and where coyle seems to always land in bottom 6 makes you wonder if he was steadily with zucker and koivu/staal what his numbers would change to.
It was only this past season in fact, that Coyle saw his pp time drop. Most around here wanted to see him get LESS pp time due to his ineffectiveness coming into last season.
Minus pp goals, Granlund has 19 and 14 goals, Coyle has 14 and 11. Granlund still leads significantly the past two seasons.
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