It’s funny to think that a team whose core has been around for as long as it has can still be considered a “young” team. Article content

And that’s a truth about the Vancouver Canucks squad that general manager Patrik Allvin handed to head coach Adam Foote this week. Article content Article content

This is, somehow, the seventh-youngest roster in the NHL.

And if you take veteran Tyler Myers out of the equation, that number dips even lower. At 35, Myers could be rookie Braeden Cootes’ dad; there are far more players closer to Cootes age than there are closer to Myers’ age.

After years of talk from Canucks management about the need to get younger, they finally have — and the likes of Quinn Hughes and Elias Pettersson are still in their physical peak.

Foote looks at his roste

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