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The Incredible Shrinking Penguins

One of the most popular Sci-Fi movies of the 1950s was The Incredible Shrinking Man. A businessman vacationing with his wife accidently gets exposed to a radioactive cloud, setting off a chain-reaction in his cells that caused his body to shrink.

Hmmmm. I wonder if the same cloud passed over Consol Energy Center sometime in the recent past.

Okay. A clunky lead-in. But you get the picture.

According to an annual study of NHL rosters performed by Toronto Globe and Mail hockey writer James Mirtle, the Penguins had a healthy average weight of 204.