so why can’t a 600-pound sumo wrestler stand or sit in front of the goal so there’s no room for the puck to get in? you can’t say he’s too heavy or tall or whatever, that is discrimination, like saying manute bol is too tall to play in the nba:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
The goal is four feet high by six feet wide, I suspect you’re vastly overestimating how much of that a stationary sumo wrestler would cover. Also the leg pads have a maximum size which is independent of how big the goalie is. NHL players are quite adept at shoot the puck into open corners. In addition the goalie wants to be mobile so he can play the puck behind the net on dump-ins.
Yes you can say he’s too heavy. If an NHL team is looking for a goalie they’re going to need someone who has agility and reflexes, not pure mass of fat.
Wouldn’t work. It’d be easy enough to shoot in between or around his legs. And sumo wrestlers usually weigh a lot less than 600 pounds.
One of those random shows on Spike TV or a similar channel explored this idea. They found a guy a sumo wrestler’s size and got an NHL player to take shots at him. The pro hockey player had absolutely no problem scoring almost every shot. And this wasn’t a sharp-shooting goal scorer - it was some fighting goon.
Moved to The Game Room.
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Not agile enough - he still has to be on skates, after all.
You missed, and hit Cafe Society. You do, however, get credit for the assist.
This isn’t the first time the question has come up.
The answer, which has already been mentioned but can be summed up a little more succintly, is this; there is not a human being on earth healthy enough to get onto the ice who can cover the net. ** An NHL net is much, much bigger than it looks on TV.** If you actually go up to a regulation size net it’s shockingly big.
A really, really fat person might be, say, 3 feet wide. (If that doesn’t sound like much, hold your hands that far apart and compare it to yourself. It’s huge. I am a large man, about 25 pounds overweight and 6’2", and I just figured now that my body is not even a foot and a half wide.) But an NHL net is six feet wide. I doubt any human is six feet wide - six feet around, maybe, but not wide.
Of course if there was a human large enough to entirely cover the net, and who was suicidal enough to try, he wouldn’t have to be able to skate or handle the puck. But there isn’t such a person.
And twickster scores on the rebound!
Actually, they COULD technically say you’re too fat to play, because physical fitness is a part of training. Not that a person weighs too much, but that they’re not in proper shape. Hockey players tend to weigh about 200+ pounds, but most of it is muscle. If someone starts looking like a sumo wrestler, they’d be in danger of being cut.
(The biggest goalie I can think of is Ken Dryden, who’s 6’4, and was about 207lbs, according to wiki)
Watch a hockey game sometime and keep an eye out after they score a goal – most of the time, they’ll show the replay from different angles. You’ll get a good look at how big the net really is.
This was an idea that Sam Seaborn had on The West Wing. (pretty much debunked there, too, with the reasons given above).
What if they trained gorillas to be goalies?
I thought that’s what the Flyers did in the 1970s?
Holy crap, they were trained??
Pekka Rinne - 6’5", listed at 205lbs.
Jason Missiaen is a Rangers prospect (4th round, 116 overall, 2008 Entry Draft, selected by the Habs but not signed) playing in the ECHL. He’s listed at 6’8" and 220lbs.
Nope. That was the problem.
Pretty sure it was Sport Science - used to be on FSN, then was bought by ESPN, who has stopped running it as a full show and it’s now just an occasional segment on SportsCenter. :mad:
200 pounds, that’s all? That’s what I weigh, and someone for whom all that weight is muscle would be smaller than me. I would have guessed they’d at least be in the 225 range or so.