Minnesota Wild Extend Charlie Coyle For 5 Years

By Catherine Silverman | Oct 22, 2014

May 11, 2014; Chicago, IL, USA; Minnesota Wild center Charlie Coyle (3) and Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Nick Leddy (8) fight for the puck during the second period of game five of the second round of the 2014 Stanley Cup Playoffs at the United Center. Mandatory Credit: Dennis Wierzbicki-USA TODAY Sports /

Charlie Coyle has received a 5-year, $16 million contract extension from Minnesota Wild

After a long summer full of RFA holdouts and ridiculous demands for “Toews money”, it comes as no surprise that the Minnesota Wild are getting that out of the way as early as possible.

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The Wild have extended 22-year old Massachussetts native Charlie Coyle for five years, with a contract reportedly worth $16 million. The forward is on his final year of an entry-level contract with the franchise, currently providing a mere $900,00 cap hit. Pretty cheap, considering the young player scored 12 goals and had 18 assists with the team last season.

Though no details have been released for the contract, the team has expressed how excited they are to have Coyle signed until the end of the 2019-2020 season. Plus, this makes their summer a little easier- with Coyle down, the Wild will only be left with two pending RFA’s to re-sign come July (Mikael Granlund and Erik Haula).

With his new $3.2 million cap hit, Coyle will either be the cheapest 20-plus up-and-comer around, or the most expensive overestimation around. Luckily for him, he knows he’s signed the kind of money he most likely wanted, unlike many of the RFA’s this summer. All-Rookie team member Torey Krug was one of two all-star RFA’s on the Boston Bruins this summer who had to settle for just over $1 million for 1-year bridge deals, and that wasn’t a rarity.

Assuming Coyle continues to develop into the kind of high-scoring winger he’s looking to be, the Wild should be a very happy team for quite a while.

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