Thursday, March 04, 2010

Yes the Leafs are getting younger and younger

It's not hard to figure out that the Maple Leafs are getting younger. As illustrated in the chart below, at the start of the season the average age of the 24 players that were on the Leaf roster was 27.6. Today, after 62 games the average age has slipped to 25.9.


Player

G1

G62

Age

Beauchemin

Y

Y

29

Blake

Y

N

36

Bozak

N

Y

23

Caputi

N

Y

21

Exelby

Y

Y

28

Finger

Y

Y

30

Grabovski

Y

Y

26

Hagman

Y

N

30

Hanson

N

Y

23

Giguere

N

Y

32

Gunnarsson

N

Y

23

Gustavsson

Y

Y

25

Kaberle

Y

Y

31

Kessel

Y

Y

22

Komisarek

Y

Y

28

Kulemin

Y

Y

23

Mayers

Y

N

35

Lundmark

N

Y

29

Mitchell

Y

Y

25

Orr

Y

Y

27

Phaneuf

N

Y

24

Ponikarovsky

Y

N

29

Primeau

Y

Y

33

Rosehill

Y

Y

24

Schenn

Y

Y

20

Sjostrom

N

Y

26

Stajan

Y

N

26

Stalberg

Y

Y

24

Stempniak

Y

N

27

Toskala

Y

N

32

Wallin

Y

Y

29

White

Y

N

25