Inside the NHL’s Surprising Shift: Why Top Players Are Ditching Beer for Better Sleep—and What It Means for the Game
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But Coyle chooses, in most cases, to abstain.
“I think it just affects you so much. Especially if you don’t do it often,” Coyle said. “You try to have a few drinks, you’re feeling it. Then the next day, you’re probably feeling it. Our schedule is so condensed that one night of bad sleep, we’re already against the grain because we play late. So you’re not going to bed until certain times. Sometimes we’re on the road traveling, so you don’t get in until a certain time. To throw another bad night’s sleep into that equation, that’s going to affect you that much more.”
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