Worth noting though is the plateau and slight decrease since the 2004 lockout. The vancouver canucks are the tallest. The average nhler is 7333 6 1 13 tall weighs 20442 lbs and is 2736 years old. Whether teams are realizing a tipping point where too much skill is traded off for size or there are just fewer large enforcers its still an interesting trend. Zdeno chára at 6 ft 9 in 206 m is the tallest player ever to play in the nhl. The new york islanders are the heaviest team in the nhl with an average player weight of 2089.
Obviously when it comes to height nhl teams have favored taller than the average population players. The average height of an nhl player is just over 6 ft 1 in 185 m tall. The most common starting nhl goalie height is. And the most common height for a starting nhl goalie today is 62. The lightning are decidedly not. The average forward is 7293 6 1 tall weighs 2024 lbs and is 271 years old.
The average height of a starting nhl goalie is. Nhl average weight this season. Height isnt a requirement to play in the nhl. The average modern nhl player is 6 foot 1 and 1993 pounds. So the average height of a starting nhl goalie today is 63. Unless youre a goalie.
This has resulted in greater diversity of player heights despite the league maintaining a generally constant average height while the average player weight has generally decreased. If you take all the goalies shown above and average their heights it comes out to 749 inches or just about 63.
Gallery of Average Height Weight Nhl Player
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