DENVER - Colorado Avalanche forward Nathan MacKinnon just turned 18 and lives in the basement of teammate Jean-Sebastien Giguere's home. Fellow rookie Seth Jones of the Nashville Predators is 19 and lives in an apartment with his mother, Amy. They are still just teenagers dependent on parental figures in making their way in life right now.
Their teams, though, are unusually dependent on them right now.
Jones is logging more minutes than a teenage girl on her cell phone for the Predators, while MacKinnon is playing top-six minutes for coach Patrick Roy with the Avs. Sure, the NHL has trended younger the last few years, but for two teams to rely so much so soon on players their age is still unusual.
And yet, it doesn't seem to be fazing either a bit.
On a team that featured Shea Weber and Ryan Suter together for a few years—two players with distinctly different but perfectly complementary styles—Jones is being called a hybrid of both. Power and finesse, all in one package.
At an average of 25 minutes, six seconds per game entering Wednesday, Jones ranked 12th among all player ...
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