Every child who laces up the skates as a youngster — from the frozen ponds in Canada to the local skating rinks in hockey hotbeds like Massachusetts and Minnesota — dreams of playing in the National Hockey League. They envision themselves in their favorite player’s skates of their hometown team. Many envision scoring a sudden-death playoffs overtime winner in said scenario.
Charlie Coyle is no different than any other player realizing his NHL potential. But the Weymouth-born forward is one of only a handful of players skating for the team they grew up watching the most.
And now he’s one of the very few to score an overtime winner in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.