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Originally Posted by ricardodw
The AHL team was full of young prospects..... as are almost all AHL teams in today cap world. Our prospects that we are rating so highly finished comfortably out of the playoffs.
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Did some quick digging and it looks like AHL hockey teams are generally around 24.5 in average years.
I know both the Canucks and Oilers teams were older.
I did a quick look at the ice time for all three teams and the their "cores" were significantly older (especially the Oilers) (don't have the numbers in front of me though, as that was a while back)
The Flames key returnees from last season (Elson, Agostino, Poirier, Granlund, Wolf, Arnold, Hathaway, Kulak, Culkin, Wotherspoon, Sieloff, Morrison) average 22.6 in age, and the team is about to get a shot of younguns with Carroll, Kanzig, Smith, Klimchuk and Gillies. That's 17 players averaging 21.9 in age.
So unless the whole leagues is trending down in age, or the Flames plan to fill in the team with 6 33 year olds I think the Flames are on the younger end of the spectrum.