Spurred by curiosity and being an extreme hockey nerd at heart, I decided to delve deeper into the correlation between size and winning the Stanley Cup in hopes of answering a burning question.
In the Cup/size debate, is bigger necessarily better?
With that in mind, I decided look at the average weight of Cup winners dating back to when our Penguins first hoisted Lord Stanley’s chalice in 1991. The results are displayed in the table below my narrative. Average weights and rankings are courtesy of Elite Prospects.
The results generally support the notion that heavier teams ruled back in the clutch-and-grab 1990s, followed by a shift in the paradigm in the seasons immediately following the 2004-05 lockout.