For all the value of post-season experience, youth is off to a nice start in the Stanley Cup playoffs. The NHL is getting younger and more skilled, and youth is being served in a big way early in the Stanley Cup playoffs. The 2018 second overall pick will try to help Carolina even its first-round series against Washington in Game 2 Saturday (3 p.m. At 19 years, 266 days old, he became the youngest defenceman in franchise history to score in the playoffs and the fifth teenage rookie defenceman with two points in his post-season debut. Boston forward Jake DeBrusk is questionable with the injury that knocked him out of Game 1 against the Maple Leafs.

Source: National Post April 12, 2019 21:56 UTC