Coyle handed out a pair of assists in Thursday's 6-3 win over Buffalo. He assisted on two goals of Nino Niederreiter's hat trick -- the even-strength one and the empty-netter -- to end a four-game scoreless skid during which he'd gone minus-6, rapidly erasing the plus-6 rating he'd compiled in the early going. Despite the production, Coyle went without a shot on goal for the second straight game.