The 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs are underway, and needless to say, the San Jose Sharks are not participating. After a run to the Western Conference Final in 2019, the Sharks entered the offseason with some tough decisions to make.
The Dallas Stars have quite an age gap. Top goal scorer Wyatt Johnston is only 20 years old and was a teenager for most of the playoffs last year. On the other end for the Western Conference's top-seeded team is Joe Pavelski, who will turn 40 this summer and has more points this season than the kid who again is living in his house. The 18-year, 10-month gap between the Stars' youngest and oldest players is the widest among the Western Conference playoff teams by 2 1/2 years, with Edmonton at 16 years and four months.
Joe Pavelski and Brent Burns made the playoffs seven times together as teammates in San Jose, reaching the conference finals and getting all the way to the Stanley Cup Final in 2016 under Peter DeBoer. Zach Parise captained New Jersey to the final in 2012. Pavelski and Ryan Suter are now teammates playing for DeBoer all over again, now with Dallas, Parise, after several years alongside Suter in Minnesota, is now with rival Colorado and Burns is the No. 1 defenceman for Carolina.
No | Player | P |
---|---|---|
14 | LW | |
22 | C | |
63 | RW | |
10 | C | |
95 | C | |
12 | C | |
2 | D | |
55 | D | |
4 | D | |
24 | C | |
53 | C | |
23 | D | |
5 | D | |
27 | LW | |
32 | G | |
29 | G | |
16 | C | |
33 | D | |
21 | LW | |
91 | C | |
15 | C | |
11 | C | |
18 | C | |
20 | D | |
3 | D | |
41 | G |