First NHL Player To Be Younger Than You

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

Frazer McClaren

 

[ML19]

Not sure. Taylor Hall is a day older than me so I'm going with that.

 

[adsfan]

I will say Wayne Gretzky. I remember hearing about him playing in Indy when I was in college in Cincinnati. It took another year for Edmonton to be in the NHL. There could be several others, but he is the one that I remember.

Update: Gary Lupul of the Canucks is about a month younger than me. Milwaukee wasn't a spot that he was sent to play. They were affiliated around the late 1980s. Mark Crawford played for both teams, but is close to Gretzky in age, being born in early 1961 or about 2 years younger than me.

 

[Suntouchable13]

Nathan Horton maybe one of the first. 2 days younger than I. Made his debut in the 03-04 season.

 

[JThorne]

David Vyborny is the closest to my birthday. But if you go a few days after and the year they entered the NHL, you'd wind up with Patrick Cote. Todd Bertuzzi if you want someone recognizable. Ugh. I think he's scum.

 

[Sparksrus3]

Arters Irbe, Derek King ,and Calle Johansson

 

[llamateizer]

• Jordan Lavallee-Smotherman

you can search through this
NHL.com - Stats

 

[Teemu]

Pretty sure its Crosby. Don't remember any 2004 '86s making their debut in their D+1

 

[snag]

Wow...Zdeno Chara is first one younger than me....
Older....only one is Matt Cullen

Like someone else said....thanks for making us feel old

 

[Satastic]

The first player to be younger than me that’s already played in the NHL is Troy Terry

It was close to being Auston Matthews

 

[Satastic]

Is there a hockey player born on July 9th 1993 ?

My sister

 

[A Loyal Dog]

Kyle Turris

 

[golgoXIII]

oh boy Cam Neely

 

[Anglesmith]

It's either Ryan O'Reilly, Richard Panik or John Ramage.

 

[cptjeff]

Mark Borowiecki was born two days after me and we had a couple of the same classes in college, so I'll go with him. There are a couple others who had a short stints in the league born the day after I was, but he's the closest one who's still in the league.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

I was born a week later than Patrick Kane. We're both about to hit that 30 mark

 

[Marshy]

I'm 11 days older than Jeremy Roenick.

Not sure who the last to be older than me was. Someone who was born in 69 and the last to retire.

 

[The Panther]

Probably either Ryan Smyth (20 days younger than me) or Curtis Brown.

 

[Marshy]

I'm 11 days older than Jeremy Roenick.

Not sure who the last to be older than me was. Someone who was born in 69 and the last to retire.

Edit: looks like it could be Mark Recchi last to be older than me - age 43 in 2011.

 

[thomaspalmer]

Last to be older: Nikolai Goldobin

First to be younger: Leon Draisaitl for NHL regulars; Anthony DeAngelo otherwise

 

[SergeConstantin74]

Sidney Crosby

First player younger than me to play a NHL game.

 

[Dirty Dan]

Filip forsberg

im old now joined hfboards in 2010 smh

 

[OilCanada92]

It was when Sam Gagner entered the league that I was like, "I'm 18 and I've amounted to nothing."

 

[The Head Crusher]

First player to be younger than me but not make the NHL first would be Brock Trotter who played 2 games for Montreal in 09/10 by 6 days.

First player to be younger than me and make the NHL first would be Phil Kessel by 20 days.

Last person to make the NHL and be older than me Matt Pelch and Jerome Samson by 8 days.

Last person to be older than me and make the NHL first would be Crosby by 36 days.

 

[BillPrep]

Lyle Odelein...

edit - I lied, it's Greg Hawgood...