Random info: The Red Wings are the least Canadian, and nearly the oldest team in the NHL [The Athletic]
October 17, 2024
Random info: The Red Wings are the least Canadian, and nearly the oldest team in the NHL [The Athletic]
27 comments
Average is a bad measurement here, median would be much more interesting to see.
Middle school maths kids
Old and American, no wonder we suck
Steve Yzerman, the Canadian ice hockey legend that doesn’t like Canadians apparently😭
We never got any good draft picks no matter how bad we were. Top level Canadian talent is all known from when they’re little kids. Any hopes of us drafting players with major impact outside of the top five will necessitate Europeans.
But but we have all these amazing kids waiting in the wings….
…….yet we never give them a shot and are just floundering in mediocrity.
We need more good old ontario boys on this team if we’re gonna contend /s
A team coming out of a rebuild as old as that SMH
Makes sense. The wings are waiting for the draft picks to start forcing their way onto the team. Thats why theres so many older guys with shorter contracts on the books.
There’s no reason to be signing top dollar, prime of their career players at the moment. There will be a point in the next year or two when critical mass is reached with all the young guys developing, and the team will switch gears into a sustainable juggernaut.
Our average age is below 30? Shiiiit, you had me worried, partner. I saw the title and was expecting worse. 15 years ago, Chelios dragged the rest of rosters average up so we were consistently the oldest team in the NHL. Larkin ain’t even 30 yet, and Seider and Raymond both just got their first pubes.
Time for a new stat: Wins Per Canadian
Yzerman is just Holland 2.0 at this point.
This age thing is so overstated. It’s an average of 6 months between 6th oldest and 13th oldest. So if instead of Talbot we had a 27 year old we’d be 12th. It’s literally that.
Okay now do the spread on Michigan natives
Being one of the oldest teams in the NHL during a rebuild is never a good sign lol
Some old hillbilly from Chatham-Kent would love this stat to justify being a dumbass Leafs fan lol. I say that endearingly as a hillbilly from Chatham-Kent.
The fact that a team that made game 7 of the SCF last year is at the top of this list makes it feel fairly irrelevant
Need more Canadian blood on this team plane and simple. That much is obvious. The shit draft lottery positions havnt helped at all. Havnt been able to get that talent.
The Wings’ Canadian scouting has been bad for a while, and it somehow didn’t get fixed with Steve taking over.
Red Wings effort to piss off don cherry is admirable
Does it matter? Is there some data that shows the best teams are young and Canadian? Or is that just understood? For future building it concerns me.
If you don’t have either a valid Michigan Driver’s license or a U of Michigan Alumni sweatshirt, Steve don’t want you here.
Young. Old. We’re the guys out of the playoffs. /Ash Williams
Chicago is a lot older than I would have expected. Probably just stopgaps until the prospects can really come in
Rebuild clearly over. Or, is about to restart again after this season.
We’re Sweden’s alternate National team.
The comment about among the oldest may explain why we always play 20-40 minutes of hockey and then retire for tea and biscuits.
My explanation:
Wings get screwed in the draft lottery for years…
The Canadians are the top pick we would have liked to have taken…
We’re a team made of leftovers… be happy about that Canada, you truly are too good for us.
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27 comments
Average is a bad measurement here, median would be much more interesting to see.
Middle school maths kids
Old and American, no wonder we suck
Steve Yzerman, the Canadian ice hockey legend that doesn’t like Canadians apparently😭
We never got any good draft picks no matter how bad we were. Top level Canadian talent is all known from when they’re little kids. Any hopes of us drafting players with major impact outside of the top five will necessitate Europeans.
But but we have all these amazing kids waiting in the wings….
…….yet we never give them a shot and are just floundering in mediocrity.
We need more good old ontario boys on this team if we’re gonna contend /s
A team coming out of a rebuild as old as that SMH
Makes sense. The wings are waiting for the draft picks to start forcing their way onto the team. Thats why theres so many older guys with shorter contracts on the books.
There’s no reason to be signing top dollar, prime of their career players at the moment. There will be a point in the next year or two when critical mass is reached with all the young guys developing, and the team will switch gears into a sustainable juggernaut.
Our average age is below 30? Shiiiit, you had me worried, partner. I saw the title and was expecting worse. 15 years ago, Chelios dragged the rest of rosters average up so we were consistently the oldest team in the NHL. Larkin ain’t even 30 yet, and Seider and Raymond both just got their first pubes.
Time for a new stat: Wins Per Canadian
Yzerman is just Holland 2.0 at this point.
This age thing is so overstated. It’s an average of 6 months between 6th oldest and 13th oldest. So if instead of Talbot we had a 27 year old we’d be 12th. It’s literally that.
Okay now do the spread on Michigan natives
Being one of the oldest teams in the NHL during a rebuild is never a good sign lol
Some old hillbilly from Chatham-Kent would love this stat to justify being a dumbass Leafs fan lol. I say that endearingly as a hillbilly from Chatham-Kent.
The fact that a team that made game 7 of the SCF last year is at the top of this list makes it feel fairly irrelevant
Need more Canadian blood on this team plane and simple. That much is obvious.
The shit draft lottery positions havnt helped at all. Havnt been able to get that talent.
The Wings’ Canadian scouting has been bad for a while, and it somehow didn’t get fixed with Steve taking over.
Red Wings effort to piss off don cherry is admirable
Does it matter? Is there some data that shows the best teams are young and Canadian? Or is that just understood? For future building it concerns me.
If you don’t have either a valid Michigan Driver’s license or a U of Michigan Alumni sweatshirt, Steve don’t want you here.
Young. Old. We’re the guys out of the playoffs. /Ash Williams
Chicago is a lot older than I would have expected. Probably just stopgaps until the prospects can really come in
Rebuild clearly over. Or, is about to restart again after this season.
We’re Sweden’s alternate National team.
The comment about among the oldest may explain why we always play 20-40 minutes of hockey and then retire for tea and biscuits.
My explanation:
Wings get screwed in the draft lottery for years…
The Canadians are the top pick we would have liked to have taken…
We’re a team made of leftovers… be happy about that Canada, you truly are too good for us.