Deadline Duo Down the Middle: Brock Nelson and Charlie Coyle

Nelson Acquired March 6th; Colorado Traded for Coyle on March 7th

Two of the Avs’ trade deadline acquisitions, Brock Nelson from the New York Islanders and Charlie Coyle from the Boston Bruins, each posted 13 points (Nelson: 6g/7a, Coyle 2g/11a) in 19 regular-season games with the Avalanche. Overall this season, Nelson posted 56 points (26g/30a) in 80 games and Coyle registered 35 points (17g/18a).

Both Nelson and Coyle recorded an assist in their Avs debuts, which was a March 8th win against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Nelson scored his first two goals in Burgundy and Blue in a 5-1 victory against the Ottawa Senators on March 20th while Coyle found the back of the net for the first time as an Av in the team’s 7-3 win against the Columbus Blue Jackets on April 3rd.

Beginning with the aforementioned game in Columbus, Coyle ended the regular season on a six-game point streak that saw him post 11 points (2g/9a). The streak began with a three-point (1g/2a) night in Columbus and ended with a three-point (1g/2a) game in Anaheim.

Of Nelson’s three multi-point games with the Avs, two were multi-goal contests. In addition to his first two goals against the Senators, Nelson recorded two goals, including the 300th of his career, against the Los Angeles Kings on April 12th.

Entering the offseason, Nelson is an unrestricted free agent while Coyle has one year remaining on his contract. Nelson enters the 2025-26 season 80 games from 1,000, 14 assists from 300 and 13 points from 600. Coyle enters the 2025-26 season 50 games from 1,000, 11 goals from 200, four assists from 300 and 15 points from 500.

In his sixth NHL season and second with the Avalanche, Joel Kiviranta posted the best year of his career. He earned career-bests in goals (16), assists (7), points (23) and average time on ice (12:31).

Kiviranta had two goal streaks of at least three games in 2024-25, one from October 20-24th and from March 6-11th. In the first streak, he scored four goals in three contests against the San Jose Sharks, Seattle Kraken and Utah Hockey Club that were part of the Avs’ five-game winning streak.

In March, he scored a goal in four-consecutive contests against the Sharks, Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Blackhawks and Minnesota Wild. The Avs won the first three games of that stretch and picked up a point in their contest against the Wild.