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Zykov and Necas didnt stick around long / play much.
True, but those guys were pretty much replaced with Bishop (20 games), Maenalane (34 games), Roy (6 games), Kuokkanen (7 games)...so for a good part of the season, there were 4 rookies in the line-up. Granted, a lot of it was because Rod didn't have a choice (mainly Wallmark) as we didn't have enough good NHLrs to begin with.
Also, the post @NotOpie was responding to didn't say all those guys would be full time NHLrs those years, he said they'd be introduced that year.
Wallmark was a 23 years old but yes a rookie.
That's not really relevant because the NotOpie's comment was in response to this (below) where most of the "rookies" will be 22/23 or older in the timeframe listed:
21-22: Bean (full-time), Geekie (full-time), Cotton, Lorentz
22-23: Keane, Sellgren, Drury, Jarvis
23-24: Bokk, Suzuki, Gunler, Rees
24-25: Puistola, Tieksola, Honka, Ponomaryov
Most of the guys he listed will be 23 or older in the year he projects they are introduced. Here's the ages those guys will be in the season that the poster said they'd be introduced to the NHL in that scenario:
21-22: Bean (23), Geekie (23), Cotton (24), Lorentz(25)
22-23: Keane (23), Sellgren (24), Drury (22), Jarvis (20)
23-24: Bokk(23), Suzuki (22), Gunler(22), Rees(22)
24-25: Puistola (24), Tieksola (23), Honka (24), Ponomaryov(22).
* I used current age on Hockeydb and added 1, 2, 3, or 4 depending on when they were projected so I may be off by a 1/2 year or so depending on when the season starts and when their birthday is.
Granted, I agree that this is way overly optimistic, so I don't think all these guys will even make it at all, much less all in a given year. Just that it wasn't a case of a bunch of 18-19 year olds making the team at once.