Even games played isn't a terribly useful metric. Deeper teams won't play younger players as much unless their force their hand. Look at Arizona last year. J.J. Moser, Dysin Mayo, Kyle Capobianco, Vladislav Kolyachonok, and Cam Dineen combined for over 200 games.
Do they get nearly that many in say, Tampa? Calgary? Boston? You look at that and say wow, they had all these young guys playing, they must be doing something right, but it doesn't mean that at all.
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