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Originally Posted by curves2000
Slightly off topic but I do think a lot of players these days might be over training and spending too much time in the gym/ on the ice. As Enoch Root pointed out, careers haven't really extended all that much, if anything in some ways you find A LOT less players who are 35+. Gio was the oldest player last year in the NHL and was fresh 40 with relatively low milage on him for a player. In the 90's there were a lot of players who played 40+.
NFL QB Tom Brady did extensive work on athletic performance well into your 40's. Talked about how the training is somewhat counterintuitive. As you age, you need more rest and recovery but in order to maintain and improve fitness, you need to work out more and harder.
Lifting heavy weights, eating foods that don't help with inflammation and more don't help with longevity. I do think a lot of NHL players are somewhat behind in terms of overall nutrition compared to what some players in soccer for example. The NHL is just so steak, chicken and pasta heavy.
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Butterfly posted a nice graph showing that the NHL "new legends" are having better aging curves on average than the "old legends".
Some of that might just be the scoring environment going up in the latter part of the "new legends" careers vs scoring trending down in the late 90s for the "old legends".
I would assume that NHLers are looking at new and innovative training methods though.
https://www.quanthockey.com/nhl/play...l-players.html
This site shows the best seasons by players by age.
By my count 23 of the top 50 seasons for 38 year old players have happened post-lockout.
23 out of 50 for 39 year old players as well.
24 out of 50 for age 40 players.
Only 26 player have played at age 42. 12 of them post lockout.
5 out of 12 post lockout for age 43.
Age 45 is only Chelios (69) games. Jagr (22 games). Johnny Bower (1 game).
So it seems the last 20 years are showing pretty well for longevity.