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Do height and weight helps/impacts players?

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Does height and weight make any differences?

Does it bring advantage or disadvantage to players?

For example Kane is 5.11 ft long & 177lbs, Crosby is 6.0 ft long & 200 lbs, Ovi is 6.3 ft & 235lbs.

Does it impact or helps at anything?
 
Absolutely it can have an impact. It's why a lot of rookies get easily muscled off the puck and especially in board battles because they just aren't as big or strong as these others guys so come offseason time the team may ask them to put on some weight/muscle.
 
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matters less for forwards then defence. I personally think all defenders under 6ft should be moved to winger, at least if i was the gm. Can't make it as a winger? traded or sent down cya later

In a perfect world i would have no defenders under 6'2 on my team. The biggest reason the devils suck is because 5/6 of their defenders are 6ft or under and they are forced to give up the puck or get injured pretty much every time the puck is in our zone.

Look at Hedman, he is pound for pound the softest human to ever exist in humanity yet his height and weight allow him to thrive.

It is possible to be an amazing defender under 6ft but you better be as skilled as Mcdavid and frankly zero are even close.
 
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If height and weight didn't matter, why would players workout to become stronger?
 
User9992 said:
Does height and weight make any differences?

Does it bring advantage or disadvantage to players?

For example Kane is 5.11 ft long & 177lbs, Crosby is 6.0 ft long & 200 lbs, Ovi is 6.3 ft & 235lbs.

Does it impact or helps at anything?
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Long = length. Tall = height.

There are diminishing returns on being too big and too small, but very few players are smaller than 5'10 180 lbs.
 
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It's also important to not that the game is changing. Becoming faster.

Of course, every team wants to be big and strong, but speed and skill are just as desired by management. So often, we see teams that have a mix, and usually the larger players are better suited to defending, specifically in front of their own net. And, forwards try to use speed and skill to get around the larger and usually slower defencemen.
 
Hattrickkane88 said:
matters less for forwards then defence. I personally think all defenders under 6ft should be moved to winger, at least if i was the gm. Can't make it as a winger? traded or sent down cya later

In a perfect world i would have no defenders under 6'2 on my team. The biggest reason the devils suck is because 5/6 of their defenders are 6ft or under and they are forced to give up the puck or get injured pretty much every time the puck is in our zone.

Look at Hedman, he is pound for pound the softest human to ever exist in humanity yet his height and weight allow him to thrive.

It is possible to be an amazing defender under 6ft but you better be as skilled as Mcdavid and frankly zero are even close.
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half the Bruins D is under 6 feet.
 
There’s advantages/disadvantages to anything. In comparison to each other, typically, bigger guys are a step slower but have a reach advantage, are harder to bump off the puck, have heavier shots and so on. Smaller guys are usually shiftier and faster because they need to be to offset the size disadvantage.
 
NHL is decreasing in weight. It also depends what style of game is more suited for you. Someone like Draisaitl plays a heavy game strong shot, strong with his stick. Would it be beneficial for him to drop to 190 like McDavid? Absolutely not. Same thing for McDavid, he’s a speed player, should be bulk up to 215? No. Every athlete knows/should know their natural weight and frame size. Deviating to much from that doesn’t help.

I’m someone who’s in pretty good shape and knows this by expierence. I’m 5’9 183-187lbs at 13-14% body fat. I thought I was to heavy so a couple summers ago I thought I would drop to 175 10-11% body fat. I was in the best shape of my life or so I thought. The next hockey season wasn’t very good. Lacking energy from trying to stay at 175. As soon as I gave up that ambition and as soon as my body got to 180 I instantly started feeling better.

some athletes run well at low body fats some need a little more everyone’s different.

that being said it does make a difference. Weight is more important than height in my opinion, like to me in a puck battle I think a 5’11 190lber is gonna be stronger than a 6,4 205 pounder on average. Weight per height is very relevant. If you you use 6’1 200 as the nhl average then most players can use a good basis as +/- 5lbs per inch to get a ballpark goal for a weight. But you have to know your frame size. Can’t change to much from what your genetics have given you otherwise it will affect speed.
 
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To become stronger
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In other words, so they can compete against pro atlethes who are tall and heavy.

Yes, I get that someone who is tall and heavy isn't automatically fit. But this is the NHL we are talking about. Not biggest loser. Players who weight 210 lbs are gonna win puck battles or battles for space against players who weight 175 lbs more often than not.
 
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In other words, so they can compete against pro atlethes who are tall and heavy.
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Well you ain’t going to get taller and depending on your body fat % you might get lighter and stronger, you could also be working on endurance instead of mass.
Is it easier for a bigger guy with a longer stick? Yes
But it’s also harder to keep a lot of mass moving and stopping so halfway into the game you could be weaker and slower and the lighter smaller guy still has a full tank.
it is a contact sport, long sticks have a better whip and running into bigger mass hurts more. That being said the loaded sticks also let the smaller guys have a big shot...
Hockey is a funny thing look at old #99 who was always too small to make it.
It all depends on your tools and how you use them.
 
supsens said:
Well you ain’t going to get taller and depending on your body fat % you might get lighter and stronger, you could also be working on endurance instead of mass.
Is it easier for a bigger guy with a longer stick? Yes
But it’s also harder to keep a lot of mass moving and stopping so halfway into the game you could be weaker and slower and the lighter smaller guy still has a full tank.
it is a contact sport, long sticks have a better whip and running into bigger mass hurts more. That being said the loaded sticks also let the smaller guys have a big shot...
Hockey is a funny thing look at old #99 who was always too small to make it.
It all depends on your tools and how you use them.
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I'm not suggesting you have to be big to play in the NHL, but to answer OP's question of course it has an impact. Troy Terry on the Ducks is a good example. He gets pushed around constantly due to lack of strenght. Yeah I know, I said strenght and not size. But if he bulked up 20 lbs that would likely help his game, as long as he does it by putting on muscle and not by eating at McDonalds twice per day. I'm not suggesting a tall sumo wrestler would make a good NHL player.
 
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Longer arms = longer reach, effectiveness
Longer legs = longer stride, speed

If all things are equal the taller player is better.

Weight obviously needs to be muscle. Then it helpa because obviously you are stronger and faster because of it. If you're fat, no, even more weight does not help you. Sorry.
 
Elvs said:
I'm not suggesting you have to be big to play in the NHL, but to answer OP's question of course it has an impact. Troy Terry on the Ducks is a good example. He gets pushed around constantly due to lack of strenght. Yeah I know, I said strenght and not size. But if he bulked up 20 lbs that would likely help his game, as long as he does it by putting on muscle and not by eating at McDonalds twice per day. I'm not suggesting a tall sumo wrestler would make a good NHL player.
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Ha speaking of sumo ,did you see the show where they put a sumo in net to see if size was all that mattered?
It was funny because they had Rob Ray or some random non star tougher guy shooting the puck, I can’t remember who exactly Brad May? Anywho he flicked it past him every shot and the sumo said “I can’t see it”
Not really me arguing against size, just the sumo part reminded me the guy couldn’t even see a shot from the most average/below average NHL player
But yes I agree in sports being bigger and stronger is a “big deal”
And the sumo reminds us size isn’t everything.
 
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