When you're over 30 and still in the National Hockey League, people — understandably — begin to check their watches. The wheels come off for everyone at some point, even Nicklas Lidstrom, and the modern game is very much a young man's.
Today's NHL is based on speed, if we're to believe the swirling fetishism surrounding how Fast and Big the last four teams in the league were. This is a copycat league, as anyone will happily tell you as though it's the first time you've ever heard such analysis, so the remaining 26 will look to cultivate big, fast rosters — because players like that are super-easy to find — in the near future.