i sort of implied it in the post, but I went to hockey-reference, exported rosters from last year and this year to CSV, put them in google sheets, trimmed them down to their actual 20-man lineups using old GDTs and ran an average function on the age column. Much more relevant than whatever LWL is doing which probably includes extra players that are not really pertinent to this discussion. It's honestly more effort than you deserve, but you make these types of claims with such smugness that it's hard to resist correcting you.
You're welcome to do the same if you really wanted to check my work, but I cannot stress enough that you are overthinking this and it should be obvious under even the most basic scrutiny that they didn't get older.
They lost their 3 oldest players in Bergeron, Krejci & Foligno. The 3 veterans they signed to be regulars (JVR, Shattenkirk and Lucic) are younger than all 3 of them so they got younger even on the top end. When you consider the rest of the lineup is filled out with new guys like Poitras (19!), Beecher, Lauko, Geekie, Mitchell/Lohrei it should be plainly obvious that any source claiming their average age went up should be questioned.
But honestly, this is what's frustrating about debating anything with you. You start with a premise (in this case: "Sweeney lied about wanting to get younger") and then look for something, anything to prove your point (in this case a number you pulled from 1 website with minimal scrutiny) and then you cling to that one data point like it's gospel instead of just considering for a moment that your premise might be flawed.
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