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Originally Posted by flamesfever
When you look at hockey players at the airport, they don't really strike you as athletes. They tend to look tall and relatively slim, i.e. built for speed rather than strength.
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Also built as much for endurance as anything. Hockey players play a surprising amount of
actual time during the game.
When you look at a game like football, those players are obviously much bigger and stronger than hockey players. They can afford to put on the extra mass because the amount of time per game they
actually play is extremely low.
One study had it as low as 11 minutes of actual playing time per game.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/...02852055561406
That's the whole game. Once you factor in offensive players, defensive players, special teams.....individual players only get what would amount to a few shifts in hockey.