When a season ends for any NHL team, no matter what the endgame scenario was, it’s inevitable that both professional and armchair analysts alike will agonize over everything regarding the upcoming season; strength of schedule, pending free agents and how much longer to hang onto a team’s core. It’s during these times when we all must ask the dreaded question; how old is ‘too old’, especially given the Boston Bruins’ core?
Hockey is a physically demanding sport. Playing at its highest level can degrade the human body years before it’s meant to – knee ligaments shred like paper, muscle strains lead to more serious ailments and there could be a whole other serious of posts on the adverse effects that multiple concussions have had on athletes.