Found the study, the first result when I searched NHL player peak lol:
https://www.researchgate.net/publica...er_performance
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Our best estimate of the scoring peak age is between 27 and 28 for forwards and between 28 and 29 for defencemen. Both forwards and defencemen exhibit near-peak performance over a wide range, going from about 24 to 32 and 24 to 34, respectively.
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I don’t know if it counts because it’s not a tweet from a mathematician but it seems to make sense to me.