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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
At the start of the season, it was looking like:
Baertschi 20
Jones 26
Irving 24
Bouma 22, and possibly
Horak 21
would be on the team. And that team was middle of the pack for age. Then they essentially replaced those guys with:
Begin 34
McGratton 31 and
MacDonald 33 and kept both of
Sarich 34 and
Babchuk 28
As has been pointed out, the increase has all been 4th liners and backup goalie.
If you look at the roster from 2 years ago, they have replaced all of these 30+ guys:
Jokinen
Morrison
Hagman
Kostopoulos
Regehr
Staios
Kotalik
Conroy
Meyer
Langkow
Ivanans
And they have brought in guys that are mostly in the 26-30 range:
Wideman
Hudler
Jones
Comeau
Stempniak
Butler
Cervenka
Cammalleri (replacing Bourque, so a wash)
as well as the guys listed above
I think the team, as in the key players, is getting younger. But until Baertschi, Bouma, Horak and guys like that take the roster spots of some of the older guys, the stats aren't going to reflect it.
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Since DM referenced this, I will debate this. You started off saying if Sven/Bouma/Horak could take rolls, the age would be lower; wasn't the same thing said 2 years ago for the bolded names?
Also not sure which time frame you're taking... Ivanans was basically not on the roster with his injury and a forgotten thought. I think Olli was early 30's, Meyer I barely even remember him being on this team and I don't think he was on the roster when TKO was here. So I'm not sure which random sample you took?