(NHL teams ranked by average weight) really don’t want to hear fans whining we’re a “small team” this year thanks to
September 6, 2024
(NHL teams ranked by average weight) really don’t want to hear fans whining we’re a “small team” this year thanks to
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Classic Bruins team being the heaviest lol 😂
Now do one with average speed, minus a few absolute burners, we’re not a really fast team. At least that was the knock on us last season.
I’m more interested in the median weight as Logan Stanley is the biggest man in hockey…
I think the size advantage is more on the 3rd and 4th lines of the Jets.
iirc jets have pretty much always been top 10 in height and weight, or at least above average
We are only 3 pounds or so above the average team and with a big range between players like Ehlers and players like Stanley, I’m not sure there is much *weight* to this statistic
A fun fact: size for forwards has had a decent negative relationship with playoff success.
Defensemen for fun I tracked playoff success for TOI weighted weight and height. Jets lost to a smaller team, the Cup winners were a smaller team, and smaller teams won about the same number of series as bigger teams.
The biggest (heh punny) thing I noticed when tracking this is that the bigger a team was defensively compared to their opponent this past post-season, the more likely they lost.
When a guy like the big boy Adam Lowry is your captain, everyone on the team feels a little bigger. Add in a Stanimal and you’re cooking.
I think this is cherry picking the stats a little and putting your own spin on it. I looked this up and according to stats done this past playoff by David Johnson of Hockey Analysis.com, teams that were half an inch taller than their opposition defense and 5 pounds heavier won 57% of the time for the last 5 playoff years. Teams like Vegas outweigh our D by 10 pounds! Colorado got 4 lbs on average lighter last playoff season than their Stanley Cup winning season the year before. It seems size does matter in the playoffs for a team’s Dmen but not a negligible difference for forwards and this winning advantage only applies in the playoffs and not to the regular season.
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Classic Bruins team being the heaviest lol 😂
Now do one with average speed, minus a few absolute burners, we’re not a really fast team. At least that was the knock on us last season.
I’m more interested in the median weight as Logan Stanley is the biggest man in hockey…
I think the size advantage is more on the 3rd and 4th lines of the Jets.
iirc jets have pretty much always been top 10 in height and weight, or at least above average
We are only 3 pounds or so above the average team and with a big range between players like Ehlers and players like Stanley, I’m not sure there is much *weight* to this statistic
A fun fact: size for forwards has had a decent negative relationship with playoff success.
Defensemen for fun I tracked playoff success for TOI weighted weight and height. Jets lost to a smaller team, the Cup winners were a smaller team, and smaller teams won about the same number of series as bigger teams.
The biggest (heh punny) thing I noticed when tracking this is that the bigger a team was defensively compared to their opponent this past post-season, the more likely they lost.
When a guy like the big boy Adam Lowry is your captain, everyone on the team feels a little bigger. Add in a Stanimal and you’re cooking.
I think this is cherry picking the stats a little and putting your own spin on it. I looked this up and according to stats done this past playoff by David Johnson of Hockey Analysis.com, teams that were half an inch taller than their opposition defense and 5 pounds heavier won 57% of the time for the last 5 playoff years. Teams like Vegas outweigh our D by 10 pounds! Colorado got 4 lbs on average lighter last playoff season than their Stanley Cup winning season the year before. It seems size does matter in the playoffs for a team’s Dmen but not a negligible difference for forwards and this winning advantage only applies in the playoffs and not to the regular season.
Technically we’re tied for 5th