The deck is pretty much stacked against anyone under 511 from making it to the nhl today unless hes a phenom who is somehow doing something different than the rest of the goalie pool. Unless youre a goalie. The average nhler is 7333 6 1 13 tall weighs 20442 lbs and is 2736 years old. If you take all the goalies shown above and average their heights it comes out to 749 inches or just about 63. Nhl average weight this season. 5 foot 10 chris osgood average weight.
In the same period the average height of skaters rose only 03. The average height of a starting nhl goalie is. 169 pounds tuukka rask yes the lightest and the heaviest goalies are both 6 foot 3 average age. The average forward is 7293 6 1 tall weighs 2024 lbs and is 271 years old. The most common starting nhl goalie height is. The lightning are decidedly not.
So the average height of a starting nhl goalie today is 63. Nhl goalies by the s. Height isnt a requirement to play in the nhl. 6 foot 6 anders lindback and devan dubnyk shortest. With the average height of an nhl goalie being just over 62 a 57 goalie would need to be a freak of nature to crack an nhl lineup today. 230 pounds jason labarbera lightest.
And the most common height for a starting nhl goalie today is 62. In such a short of period this increase in goaltender height is not an insignificant increase. As seen in the table below over the past five nhl entry drafts the average height of goaltenders chosen has risen 074 of an inch from 7258 inches in 2000 to 7332 inches in 2004.
Gallery of Nhl Goalie Height And Weight
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