For the most part, hockey is a young man’s game.
The last three scoring champs - Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl and Nikita Kucherov - all won the award in their 24- or 25-year-old season... and McDavid won it the two years prior without being able to (legally) celebrate the first with a glass of champagne in Vegas. In fact, no player has won the scoring title for a full season beyond age 30 since Mario Lemieux did it in 1996-97, at age 31. The average age of an Art Ross Trophy winner since the League started handing it out after the 1947-48 season has been 25.