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Does the brain stop learning at age 26 and nobody told me?!
You never stop "learning" but the human brain does finish developing at 25, which was the discussion.
This is more of a pet theory of mine than something I've crunched the numbers on but, logically, you would think the average age at which players at each position break into the NHL would also be the average age at which all players at that position peak. So for example if the average forward plays his first season as a NHL regular at 22, average defenseman at 23, average goalie at 25 we can probably conclude that forwards, defenseman and goalies as a whole also peak at those ages on average.
Bringing it back to this discussion, you almost never see a defenseman have a real NHL career after breaking into the league at 26 so it's pretty safe to conclude they peak before then.