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DENVER — Blake Comeau looks around the Avalanche dressing room and accepts the truth.
He's an old man playing a young man's game.
Colorado opened the Stanley Cup Playoffs featuring the NHL's most youth-laden roster, average age 25.8 years, with Comeau as an outlier. The Avs' third-line winger joined the league as a second-round draft pick in 2004 — not long after the sixth birthday of now teammate Sam Girard. Comeau, 32, is about four months behind center Carl Soderberg as the team's second-oldest player. The Avs dressed 11 rookies this season to set a franchise record.