DENVER — One of the NHL’s oldest players said Saturday those who think the NHL is dramatically younger today than five or 10 years ago are having trouble with their memory.
Amusing, and Jarome Iginla is mostly right, given charts showing the league’s average age might be creeping downward, but it’s only ever so slightly, if at all, in the last 10 years.
(Compiled data shows the average age in 2009-10 was 27.3. Last season it was 27.8 and it’s fractionally lower this season.).
The Colorado Avalanche right-winger, now 38 and still firing goals, remembers young players having an impact regularly over his productive career that began with the draft in 1995.