Why doesn’t the fattest man in the world become a hockey goalie?
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To adequately cover the net, modern goalies rely on angle and depth to reduce the amount of area a shooter has a chance to score on. Angle positions the body in the center of the net relative to the puck so that the body is there to block the most direct path of the puck, with arms and legs extending to get what isn’t covered by the body. Depth is how close to the puck the goalie is, which likewise reduces both the angle available for the shot and increases the amount of body covering the net opening.
Look at your phone and have it try to block something behind it. Angle is moving side to side, depth is backwards and forwards. The closer to you and the more centered, the more that is blocked.
A goalie relying on their extreme mass would have to replace that coverage with raw fat, or else they’re not better. Since even middle school kids and adult rec league players can shoot top corner or along the ice, our hypothetical fat goalie would need to be able to cover the whole net with his flub. He needs to seal the bottom of the net, so he can’t be standing (body fat doesn’t drag on the ground). So let’s assume he’s on his knees in some form of butterfly like any other goalie.
The hockey net opening is 4 feet high and 6 feet wide. I’m 6 feet tall and from knee to shoulder is about 40 inches (3 ft 4 in). Extrapolating our from that general ratio, you’d need a fat man almost 7–1/2 feet tall to be able to cover the height of the net.
But wait - what about the width of the net? The widest person ever recorded - Robert Earl Hughes- was a little over 10 feet around. It that’s in circumference. If he was a circle, he’d be about 39 inches wide, but let’s say he’s more an oval and approximate 50 inches wide.
The net is 72 inches wide, so we’re looking at almost 2 feet of uncovered space. That’s a third of net uncovered! I know midget and bantam players that could score natural hat tricks every period with that much uncovered, never mind professional hockey players. In the pros, that’s what you call a wide open net.........
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