THE COUNTDOWN

The Sabres, Jackets and Canadiens check in as the NHL’s most youthful teams, while the Isles, Wild and Penguins could use a few more kids in the lineup

BY JARED CLINTON

CONVENTIONAL WISDOM, or at least anecdotal evidence and a general misconception about the way NHL teams have been assembled since the adoption of the salary cap in 2005, has led hockey fans to believe that we’re in the most bright-eyed and bushy-tailed era in NHL history. But that isn’t quite true. In fact, in order to find the youngest roster in NHL history, you need to skip back more than two decades to the 1987-88 Quebec Nordiques. All but seven of those Nordiques, who finished last in the Wales Conference, were in their age-25 season or younger, with 31-year-old Peter Stastny playing the role of elder statesman. And those ’87-88 Nordiques aren’t much of an outlier when it comes to the league’s most youthful era, either. According to eliteprospects.com, there have…

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