Which player weighed the most in NHL history?

[livewell68]

Looking through the last 30 years of NHL drafts, Byfuglien was the heaviest player drafted, tied with Derek Boogaard (who had about 4 inches on Buff).

There are some guys that came close, Frazer McLaren, Joe Finley, Kristian Kudroc, Zdeno Chara, Kyle Freadrich, Chris McAllister, and Boris Valabik but they all have inches on Byfuglien too.

FWIW, when Eric Lindros went 1st overall in 1991, he was not only the first player selected, he was also the heaviest in his draft year, listed at 240lbs.! Jaromir Jagr was also heaviest in 1990, drafted 5th overall. Lemieux was only lighter than Al Iafrate and Kjell Samuelsson in 1984.

Jagr was only 196 lbs in his rookie year. He was pushing 250 lbs though at one point in New York.

 

[GJB]

Jagr was only 196 lbs in his rookie year. He was pushing 250 lbs though at one point in New York.

Okay I was going by the NHL.com draft site that indicated something else, you may be correct.

 

[IComeInPeace]

George Pelawa was the largest (in terms of weight) 1st round pick ever at the time (1986) and by a lot. I believe he was listed at 6'3" and 240-245 pounds.
That was absolutely huge for back then.

Pelawa died before he had the chance to play in the NHL, but he would have been the largest NHL'er ever, even as an 18 yr old.

Pelawa is the guy that a lot of people thought the song "Big League" was written about (Tom Cochrane states that is not true at all).

 

[Slush]

I don't think he was the heaviest, but certainly in his day he was one of them, if not tops.

Lou Nanne on Elmer "Moose" Vasko

"Wren use to worry about Moose Vasko's weight a lot, so he had a fine for him: $100 for every pound over 220. Moose knew he couldn't control his weight, but he figured out how to put a piece of metal under the scale so that it would never go over 220.

Countless times, Wren would come down in and say: "You fat pig, Moose. Get on that scale. I know you're over 220, and it's 100 bucks a pound." Moose would get on, the scale would stop at 220, and Wren would say,"Damn, you look bigger than that."

Moose was usually about 250, of course."

That's a pretty funny story. He was smart to figure out how to handle that weigh scale!

 

[The Panther]

Of course, if we were talking about coaches, it's gotta be younger Ken Hitchcock....

 

[Pierremartin9]

Out of curiosity, how big did Ovechkin get at one point?

 

[57special]

Wonder how much the Gumper weighed? Not exactly a workout fanatic.

 

[Passchendaele]

Out of curiosity, how big did Ovechkin get at one point?

NHL.com has him at 239 lbs at this moment.

 

[Uncle Rotter]

Not NHL but; Bobby Tucker

http://internationalhockeywiki.com/ihw/index.php?title=Bobby_Tucker

 

[cupcrazyman]

How big was Keith Tkachuk? I can remember something about having him a weight problem at 1 point.

Watched his kid get drafted & noticed how fat Keith's face was.

 

[Killion]

Not NHL but; Bobby Tucker

http://internationalhockeywiki.com/ihw/index.php?title=Bobby_Tucker

.... talk about obscure. where did you trip across this guy?

 

[Uncle Rotter]

.... talk about obscure. where did you trip across this guy?

While trying to document every player who learned their hockey in one country then later represented another.

 

[Jets4Life]

That was 2012. Buff really let himself go during the lockout.

 

[MXD]

Wonder how much the Gumper weighed? Not exactly a workout fanatic.

I'd be extremely surprised if he fell on the other side of 200. I mean, he wasn't a very tall man.

 

[Killion]

While trying to document every player who learned their hockey in one country then later represented another.

Interesting as obviously "Tucker" is not a Romanian name and hard to imagine it was anglicized from a Romanian surname so perhaps on his maternal side....