When Craig Button of TSN published his list of top non-NHL prospect the other day, he got Andreas Johnsson’s age wrong. He’s listed at 21 in the Toronto section of the list. Johnsson is actually 23, and he turns 24 this year.
It got me thinking about how we rate prospects and how much or how little we take age into account. We all wrestle with this when do the Top 25 Under 25 lists. And not everyone approaches the thorny problem of comparing teenagers to young men with years more hockey experience, often pro experience, in the same way.