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Originally Posted by Singularity
There are upsides to both, and size differences can be seen as a part of coaching strategy in hockey, if you look at basketball, before everyone believed in big tall players, then coaches like Mike D'Antoni went to a smaller line up which has crazy fast offensive pace and bigger players have troubles keeping up, i believe this is the same in hockey. However a team needs a balance of big and small players.
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I think the ice surface is not big enough to give the small players the same advantage in hockey. That plus the big guys like Getzlaf and Kopitar are pretty fast