The Canucks have the seventh-youngest roster in the NHL. How they've prepared will go a long way to setting the course of the season.

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,

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