Top 10 Youngest NHL Teams For 2024-25 Season

The Buffalo Sabres have been working on a rebuilding project for a long time, and their youth movement is continuing through yet another season with no playoff berth coming to upstate New York. But they are No. 1 in one category.

As part of our Ontario sports betting coverage, OntarioBets.com wanted to see which NHL teams have the youngest rosters after the March trade deadline. We used official team rosters, as of March 12, found the average age of each squad and ranked the 10 youngest NHL teams.

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Top 10 Youngest NHL Team Rosters

Rank	Team	Average Age
1	Buffalo Sabres	25.42
2	San Jose Sharks	26.32
3	Philadelphia Flyers	26.42
4	Anaheim Ducks	26.46
5	Montreal Canadiens	26.64
6	Boston Bruins	26.81
7	Vancouver Canucks	26.84
8	Chicago Blackhawks	27.17
9	Seattle Kraken	27.22
10	New York Rangers	27.33

If you believe younger teams have an edge, you might want to consider this information when you place NHL bets on Ontario sports betting apps this season.

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Where Sabres Rank NHL-Wide

Buffalo has missed the playoffs for 13 consecutive seasons, the longest drought in NHL history. It's only a matter of time before that skid grows to 14.

Buffalo has not been mathematically eliminated yet but coach Lindy Ruff's young squad would have to go on an epic run to climb up the standings now. With 19 games left, the Sabres have 56 points, the fewest in the Eastern Conference. They trail the Columbus Blue Jackets by 14 points for the final wild-card spot in the East.

When we did this survey at the beginning of the season for NHL betting analysis, Buffalo was the youngest team in the league with an average age of 25.32 years. They are still No. 1 after a flurry of activity at the trade deadline, with their current average age (25.42) almost unchanged.

At or near the March 7 trade deadline, Buffalo dealt 25-year-old defenseman Henri Jokiharju for a future draft pick and also traded defenseman Dennis Gilbert (age 28) and forwards Nicolas Aube-Kubel (28) and Dylan Cozens (24). Among the assets the Sabres acquired in return were defensemen Erik Brannstrom (25) and Jacob Bernard-Docker (24) plus forward Josh Norris (25).

Author

Christopher Boan

Christopher Boan is a writer at OntarioBets.com. He's covered sports and sports betting in Arizona for more than seven years, including stops at ArizonaSports.com, the Tucson Weekly and the Green Valley News.