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Originally Posted by Rejean31
I see Kevin is pushing the “ Oilers are such a young team” narrative on the media again. Holy hell we’ve been hearing about the young upstart Oilers since 1981. It is such a load of crap. There are many younger teams than the Oilers in the NHL. But keep coming up with excuses, you clowns. You know what they say about excuses?
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I was just looking at Hockey Reference for team ages. I like the way they do it, weighting it by TOI, because a team could have a 40 year old, or a 20 year old sitting on the bench getting 3 minutes a game - either way it is irrelevant. Weighting it by TOI considers who the important players are.
Going by wtd avg age, the Oilers are right on league avg at 28.0 (and rank 16th or 17th, I forget which).
The Flames, BTW, are a little below avg at 27.7 (tied with the Lightning and Pens)