This is year No. 100 in the NHL's history. The C-note season—the one, if not all about the Benjamins, all about the Connors and Austons and Sidneys. The NHL itself may be longer in the tooth, but it's a young man's league more than ever.
Edmonton's Connor McDavid, for instance, became the youngest captain in NHL history earlier this month, at 19 years, 266 days old. The Pittsburgh Penguins won the Stanley Cup this past spring, with an average player age of 27.8, according to NHLNumbers.com. In 2002 and 2008, the Detroit Red Wings won Cups with average player ages of a little higher than 31 years old. In 2008-09, two teams, the Wings and Devils, had rosters with an average age of over 30.
There are none today.
True, the NHL has the oldest player in major professional sports, with Florida's Jaromir Jagr still putting up points at age 44. But he's a freak of nature. The rest of the league continues to trend younger, and yet there is much worry about the state of the game again.
The reason: lack of scoring.
Nobody wants to see the NHL revert to the days when goaltenders looked like stic ...
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