NHL teams by age

by James Mirtle on Oct 24, 2008 5:00 AM CDT in Statistics Comment 12 comments

What follows is a ranking of all 30 teams by age, including all players that have appeared in at least one game this season. Detroit gets younger than last season without Dominik Hasek and Chris Chelios (for now) in the lineup, yet they remain the oldest team in the league:

	Team	Age
1	DET	30.40
2	ANA	30.31
3	NJD	29.65
4	COL	29.64
5	OTT	29.39
6	TBL	28.97
7	CGY	28.79
8	ATL	28.65
9	SJS	28.63
10	BUF	28.58
11	MTL	28.48
12	FLA	28.32
13	CAR	28.30
14	NYI	28.18
15	WSH	28.02
16	BOS	27.89
17	EDM	27.85
18	VAN	27.78
19	TOR	27.71
20	NSH	27.66
21	DAL	27.43
22	PIT	27.30
23	MIN	27.24
24	PHI	27.13
25	STL	27.11
26	NYR	27.08
27	LAK	26.24
28	CBJ	26.08
29	PHX	25.79
30	CHI	25.65

The surprises in there?

How about Atlanta and Buffalo as two of the oldest teams in the league and the Rangers and Flyers as two of the youngest.

The NHL's average age to this point in the season is almost exactly 28 years old, which is where teams like the Islanders, Capitals, Bruins and Oilers all fit in.

The true youth movements aren't all that suprising, however. St. Louis, Los Angeles, Columbus, Phoenix and Chicago are rolling out a ton of rookies this season, especially in the early going. I'll try and break this down by position at some point.

I'll also have a look at NHL teams by size, based on weight, sometime in the next few days. The average NHL player is 203.5 pounds this season, with San Jose coming in as the heaviest team and Detroit as the lightest.

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Buffalo gets older

All those young players that blew up after the lockout are now getting to be 25, 26 years old. Of course Teppo Numminen and Craig Rivet on the blueline instead of Mike Weber and Nathan Paetsch skews things a bit too. ;)

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by TheTick on Oct 24, 2008 9:13 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I think Teppo skews things a LOT! I think the Sabres are a good age overall, not too young, not too old. We are just like the baby bear’s porridge!

The population of Pominville keeps rising!

by Blackcapricorn on Oct 24, 2008 10:08 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

No rookies made Montreal, so everyone is now a year older. The additions vs. subtractions in the offseason probably skew a little older as well (Lang, Laraque, Tanguay in; Smolinski, Streit, Ryder out). When half the team hits UFA next year, they’ll get a bit younger again.

Detroit exchanged Hasek for Conklin and Drake for Hossa, but no actual rookies cracked their lineup, so it’s not surprising to see them still on top.

Hockey blogging can't get any flatter.

by saskhab on Oct 24, 2008 10:25 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs