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Scotty Bowman is still sharp as a tack at 84 and looks at least 15 years younger than his age.

“It’s nice down here,” Bowman said with a smile last Thursday night in the press box at Tampa’s Amalie Arena when asked how he doesn’t age.

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Bowman now lives in Sarasota, Fla., and attends all the Lightning home games in his role as Senior Advisor, Hockey Operations, for the Chicago Blackhawks. His son Stan — named after the Stanley Cup, which his father won a record nine times as a coach, including the first five with the Canadiens — is the Blackhawks’ vice-president and general manager.

“I follow the league from the games here,” Bowman said before watching the Canadiens lose 3-1 to the Lightning. “I don’t have much to do with Chicago. There’s not many trades now. Sometimes in the summer, they’ll ask me about a player I saw during the season. The one team I know the most about is Tampa because I watch them all the time.”