Here's the Hobey Baker winners list sorted by the players' ages the day they won the award:
---------- 18 ----------
Paul Kariya
---------- 20 ----------
Robb Stauber
Johnny Gaudreau
Ryan Miller
Tony Hrkac
Kip Miller
---------- 21 ----------
Bill Watson
Neal Broten
Matt Carle
Tom Kurvers
Chris Drury
Brendan Morrison
Jordan Leopold
Ryan Duncan
---------- 22 ----------
Mike Mottau
Mark Fusco
Kevin Porter
Blake Geoffrion
David Emma
Scott Pellerin
Chris Marinucci
Brian Bonin
Marty Sertich
Brian Holzinger
Jack Connolly
---------- 23 ----------
Andy Miele
Lane MacDonald
Scott Fusco
Jason Krog
Peter Sejna
George McPhee
Drew LeBlanc
Junior Lessard
---------- 24 ----------
Matt Gilroy
Gaudreau is the third-youngest Hobey Baker winner. Of all the players who won the Hobey Baker before celebrating their 21st birthdays, Robb Stauber is the only one who could be considered an NHL bust. All the others played at least 400 NHL games. Kariya averaged a point a game in the NHL, Hrkac and Kip Miller were both around half a point a game, and Ryan Miller has had a solid NHL career.