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Originally Posted by Sandman
You don’t “need” both. That team succeeded in spite of having some small players, not because of it. If you have two players to choose from, both of which have the same skillset, same points, same speed, but one is 5’9”, and one is 6’2”- you take the bigger one every time. That team also had a huge defense.
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I guess, you can find a few 6’2 forwards who can put the puck in the net but you get up to 6’3 and 6’4, those guys don’t seem to show up in the top 50 of NHL scorers, much more likely to get a guy at 6’0 or under in those spots. You look at Vegas last year, the guys who scored were at or under the league average for forward height. Then they had some grinders who put in some minutes. I guess maybe Vegas succeeded in spite of having most of their scorers being at or under the average forward height.