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Karel Plasek: The Skinny on the Canucks’ Skinniest Prospect

Scour the internet and you will find unanimity that Karel Plasek weighs 154 lbs. Watch him play and your eyes tell you he is now closer to 170 or 175 lbs. He is also listed at 5’11” but your vision says he has grown to be about 6’1”. It appears the Canucks may have found another viable dark horse future NHL player in the late rounds of the NHL draft following a filling out and growth spurt.

Plasek was taken 175th overall in the 6th round of the 2019 NHL Entry Draft which meant that after draft day you were unlikely to ever hear about him again.