Really fat goalie?

Tom Cronin

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Sep 10, 1992, 5:18:57 PM9/10/92

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Has any team ever used a really fat goalie to totally
eclipse the goal? (For example, a sumo wrestler lying on his
side in front of the goal) He wouldn't even need padding! Is
there some rule about goalie girth that would prevent such a thing?
Just the right solution for a lagging defense!

Tom

Frank Drake

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Sep 11, 1992, 8:12:16 PM9/11/92

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In article <18oe41...@agate.berkeley.edu> tcr...@ocf.berkeley.edu (Tom Cronin) writes:
> Has any team ever used a really fat goalie to totally
> eclipse the goal? (For example, a sumo wrestler lying on his
> side in front of the goal)

No matter how fat a goaltender is, there would always be some hole and a
fat goaltender just wouldn't be able to move fast enough. That's 24 square
feet to fill.

I remember seeing Billy Smith get his shirt pulled off in a fight, though,
and he was pretty fat... ;-)

Not a pretty picture, either.

Frank
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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PATRICK EMOND

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Sep 14, 1992, 4:14:00 PM9/14/92

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In article <18oe41...@agate.berkeley.edu>, tcr...@ocf.berkeley.edu (Tom Cronin) writes...

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> Has any team ever used a really fat goalie to totally
> eclipse the goal? (For example, a sumo wrestler lying on his
> side in front of the goal)

I don't know about *huge*, but Minnesota prospect Mike Torchia played
at about 240+ pounds in junior... besides, even a sumo doesn't have a 5' X 3'
belly...

Patrick Emond
Concordia U.
Montreal, Can.

Brian Down

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Sep 14, 1992, 5:37:58 PM9/14/92

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In article <18oe41...@agate.berkeley.edu>, tcr...@ocf.berkeley.edu (Tom Cronin) writes...
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> Has any team ever used a really fat goalie to totally
> eclipse the goal? (For example, a sumo wrestler lying on his
> side in front of the goal)

This reminds me of the skit from the Saturday Night Live program
that Gretzky hosted. I thought it was a pretty funny show. (Particlarly
the skit where Gretz is a guest on "Wayne's World".) Anyway....near
the end of the show, after being eliminated from the playoffs,
"McNall" brings "Sly Stalone" and a number of other celebrites into
the dressing room to meet Wayne.

None of them know anything about hockey, but they all have the same
suggestion:

"Maybe if you could put a piece of plywood over the goal!
Yeah...that's it. Nothing would go in then...."

Brian Down (bd...@vis.toronto.edu)

Andrew W Korbut

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Sep 17, 1992, 9:12:00 PM9/17/92

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In article <18oe41...@agate.berkeley.edu>, tcr...@ocf.berkeley.edu (Tom Cronin) writes...
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> Has any team ever used a really fat goalie to totally
> eclipse the goal?
>

> Tom

Sounds kind of like former Bruins stalwart-hog, DOUG KEANS, the ORIGINAL
'Round Mound of Rebounds'!

Can you say 5'8" and 220 pounds? Boom!

Dr.D [The Devils Advocate] "Drinkin' & women & guns don't mix..."
v057...@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
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Mike Godfrey

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Sep 18, 1992, 8:51:12 AM9/18/92

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In article <Bur1s...@acsu.buffalo.edu> v057...@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Andrew W Korbut) writes:
>Sounds kind of like former Bruins stalwart-hog, DOUG KEANS, the ORIGINAL
>'Round Mound of Rebounds'!
>
>Can you say 5'8" and 220 pounds? Boom!

My NHL guide lists him as 5'7" 185 lb.

--
Mike Godfrey "I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty.
Dept of Comp Sci, UofT I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty."
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Scott Simpson

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Sep 18, 1992, 10:38:50 AM9/18/92

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In article <18oe41...@agate.berkeley.edu>, tcr...@ocf.berkeley.edu (Tom Cronin) writes...
> Has any team ever used a really fat goalie to totally
> eclipse the goal?
> Tom

Doesn't the NHL have a "good for the game" clause somewhere similar to the one
that exists for Major League Baseball? I recall this coming up last year on rec.sport.
baseball talking about Dave Letterman wanting to "pitch one inning of shutout ball",
but the r.s.b. turfed this idea 'cuz the commissioner could thwart such incidents with
this clause (which was put in after a midget was put in one game to draw a walk sometime
in the 'Twenties...). That is to say, the commissioner has the power (or should that
now be "had the power"?) to reject any player hired on any team if it's not in the best
interests of baseball.

*Anyway*, I seem to recall after talk of Gordie Howe playing in a game with the Kings
in 1990 so he could've played in 5 decades, someone here suggested that the league
wouldn't let such publicity-only player sign-ups happen. I would assume "SumoGoalie"
would fall under the same umbrella, if such a clause does exist (now *that's* a big
umbrella...).

Hiring horses on skates, of course, would likely be seen in the same light :-).

So, my question (which seems to be lost somewhere in my babbling), is does such a
power exist for someone high-up in the NHL management ranks?