Who Are the Strongest Players in the NHL

[MikeFolignosHelmet]

Who do you think are the strongest players this season? By strongest I mean their strength. Guys who can make a play with an opposing player or two hanging all over them.

 

[chris kontos]

Erik cernak

 

[maroon 6]

Leon Draisaitl

There’s a great clip of Nils Aman trying to check him

 

[Bubbles]

Crosby has been doing this for years. You can't knock him off the puck behind the net and the corners.

 

[Czechboy]

Radko Gudas

 

[Stud Muffin]

Who do you think are the strongest players this season? By strongest I mean their strength. Guys who can make a play with an opposing player or two hanging all over them.

I feel like this posy was made to compliment Draisaitl.

 

[PuckG]

I feel like this posy was made to compliment Draisaitl.

It does describe him pretty well. Players either bounce off him or they hang onto him and he shakes them off to make a play.

 

[Breakers]

I remember matthews and Tkachuk saying McAvoy is an absolute unit in the gym. Like he lifts sooo much than others

He seems to do well in battles

 

[Samsquanch]

Brady Tkachuk is top tier in the NHL when it comes to powerhouses.



He might look like he's all neck lol, but he is one of the rare examples of a big dude who's actually even stronger than his size suggests. How else could he come into the NHL as a rookie and play the way he always has? And although his 6'4 225lbs frame is not ripped or overly muscular, but yet hes still freakishly strong and solid, and seems to catch people by surprise.

Hes only 24, give him another 3 or 4 years to fully develop that man strength and he will be alone on an island by himself imo.

 

[voyageur]

Adam Lowry will win a lot of one on one puck battles, but Jamie Benn was physically stronger in a fight. In terms of being a beast to play against, Mark Scheifele is not easy to stop with the puck.

 

[57special]

Adam Lowry will win a lot of one on one puck battles, but Jamie Benn was physically stronger in a fight. In terms of being a beast to play against, Mark Scheifele is not easy to stop with the puck.

I dunno, Lowry is a low key really tough guy in a fight.

Greenway is very strong when motivated. I've seen him knock over two players with one check.
Charlie Coyle is also very strong. Again, motivatiuon seems to be a problem, but when he gets going his puck keep aways can be quite something. Is the sort of guy you don't want to wake up.

In recent years, Chara and Buff were the strongest, with a nod to Shea Weber. In the old days, Howe and Kurtenbach were very strong and tough. People tended to just leave them alone.

 

[NotAVacuumSalesman]

Zach Hyman’s nose took a 93 mph 1T from Bouchard. I nominate Hyman’s nose this season.

 

[missionAvs]

Jack Hughes

 

[JoeSakic13]

Nathan MacKinnon may not be the strongest, but it is amazingly entertaining seeing guys line him up yet get the worst of the hit.

 

[Leafshater67]

Dustin Byfuglien was special. When he played, it was easily him. I miss watching big buff manhandle 2-3 players at once in scrums.

 

[Horvat1C]

Nils Hoglander is a mini turbo tank. He smashed the team fitness testing and is probably one of the hockey-strongest pound for pound players.

 

[HabzSauce]

Big buff was the strongest I've ever seen. He said he wasn't even going 100% because he feared if he did, he'd kill guys.

In today's NHL, idk. Olivier & Xhekaj come to mind.

 

[Christ]

Marner

 

[LemonSauceD]

JT Miller is hard to move. Guy is a tank and rarely ever gets outmuscled.

 

[John Mandalorian]

Kucherov...but the Canadian media doesn’t love him.

 

[Skolman]

Brady Tkachuk is top tier in the NHL when it comes to powerhouses.



He might look like he's all neck lol, but he is one of the rare examples of a big dude who's actually even stronger than his size suggests. How else could he come into the NHL as a rookie and play the way he always has? And although his 6'4 225lbs frame is not ripped or overly muscular, but yet hes still freakishly strong and solid, and seems to catch people by surprise.

Hes only 24, give him another 3 or 4 years to fully develop that man strength and he will be alone on an island by himself imo.

I don't doubt that Tkachuk is strong, Garland is also around 160 lbs.... That video really isn't good evidence.

 

[JianYang]

Big buff was the strongest I've ever seen. He said he wasn't even going 100% because he feared if he did, he'd kill guys.

In today's NHL, idk. Olivier & Xhekaj come to mind.

Buff could make it look like an arcade game on the ice where everything that touches him goes flying.

I still remember in the 2010 finals where he smoked pronger, who looked like a twig in his path.

 

[Chainshot]

Crosby has been doing this for years. You can't knock him off the puck behind the net and the corners.

Sid seems like his base is as wide as he is tall. The guy has a freakish lower chassis.

 

[HabzSauce]

Buff could make it look like an arcade game on the ice where everything that touches him goes flying.

I still remember in the 2010 finals where he smoked pronger, who looked like a twig in his path.

That's the first hit that came to mind haha totally destroyed one of the leagues top alpha dogs

 

[jetsforever]

HM to Byfuglien even though he's been gone for a bit