{"id":1576,"date":"2014-05-18T12:34:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T17:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1576"},"modified":"2014-05-18T12:39:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T17:39:08","slug":"most-nhl-players-peak-by-age-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/most-nhl-players-peak-by-age-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Most NHL players peak by age 29<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1564\" style=\"width: 495px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Max-Pacioretty-and-David-Desharnais_Margaret-e1400433834472.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1564\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1564\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Max-Pacioretty-and-David-Desharnais_Margaret-e1400433834472.jpg\" alt=\"According to a new study, twenty-five-year-old Max Pacioretty (left) and 27-year-old David Desharnais (right) are in the prime age range for NHL forwards. (Photo credit: Margaret, via Flickr)\" width=\"485\" height=\"364\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1564\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">According to a new study, twenty-five-year-old Max Pacioretty (left) and 27-year-old David Desharnais (right) are in the prime age range for NHL forwards. (Photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cerebusfangirl\/8529954590\/in\/photostream\/\">Margaret, via Flickr<\/a>)\\<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hockey players reach their peak performance by age 29, according to a new mathematical analysis. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The study used regular-season NHL records from 1997 to 2012 and compared player age with points scored per game. The authors estimate scoring peak age is slightly earlier by about a year for forwards (between 27 and 28) than for defencemen (28 and 29). Goalies show the least variation over their careers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.degruyter.com\/view\/j\/jqas-ahead-of-print\/jqas-2013-0085\/jqas-2013-0085.xml?format=INT\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the the\u00a0<em>Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>March 18, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sauder.ubc.ca\/Faculty\/People\/Faculty_Members\/Brander_James\" target=\"_blank\">James Brander<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, University of British Columbia, British Columbia<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hockey players reach their peak performance by age 29, according to a new mathematical analysis. The study used regular-season NHL records from 1997 to 2012 and compared player age with points scored per game. The authors estimate scoring peak age is slightly earlier by about a year for forwards (between 27 and 28) than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1496,1123,125,51,1495,1494],"class_list":["post-1576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-age","tag-aging","tag-british-columbia","tag-health","tag-hockey","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Max-Pacioretty-and-David-Desharnais_Margaret-e1400433834472.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-pq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1582,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions\/1582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}