Who is the BEST out of shape player of alltime?

[AvroArrow]

Ovechkin

One of the greatest players of all time. Greatest goal scorer of all time. And for most of his career he's had a legit beer belly. Buff was prob the fattest NHLer I've ever seen. But to answer the OP, the BEST out of shape player, it has to be OV.

 

[Pens x]

Mario

 

[Los merengues]

Seeing him in person, I wanna say Ovi at his heaviest was like 260-280. Absolute tank.

Ovechkin is not out of shape. Too many people have a misguided understanding of what an athlete's body should look like.

As one can see with Emelianenko's body - posted above - there are different athletic body types and they're not all ripped.

The fact of the matter is that Ovechkin plays many minutes, does not get tired, and barely misses games. He's in amazing shape.

You clearly dont understand what being out of shape means. Ovie and Emilianenko are plain and simply fat. There are no ways around that. Doesnt take anything away from them as athletes. But they are fat as hell.

 

[ES]

Not a superstar, but Bryan Erickson doesn't look much like a NHL player:

50-point season in 1986-87 while playing for Kings.

 

[Star Ocean]

Mario Lemiuex.

All other answers are wrong

 

[MarkusKetterer]

Not a superstar, but Bryan Erickson doesn't look much like a NHL player:

50-point season in 1986-87 while playing for Kings.

Forgot about him

 

[Filthy Dangles]

I still refuse to believe this is real. This can’t be real.

 

[Midnight Judges]

A lot of this is just different body types.

 

[Damisoph]

Guy Lafleur. Legend used to hack some darts between periods

 

[Damisoph]

Not a superstar, but Bryan Erickson doesn't look much like a NHL player:

50-point season in 1986-87 while playing for Kings.

lol jesus. To be fair, 50 points in 86-87 is like 20 now.

 

[Soundwave]

Big Buff looks like he ate half the players being listed here and then polished them off with a side of fries, milkshake, and a full Christmas fruit cake.

 

[steveat]

Big Buff looks like he ate half the players being listed here and then polished them off with a side of fries, milkshake, and a full Christmas fruit cake.

Come on..totally not realistic at all. No one eats Christmas cake...sheesh

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

Big Buff looks like he ate half the players being listed here and then polished them off with a side of fries, milkshake, and a full Christmas fruit cake.

Some say that’s where Sergei Samsonov went. Went into a corner together, Big Buff absorbed him majin buu style- and now there’s no more Samsonov.

 

[Rodgerwilco]

Mario

Smoked a freakin pack a day then dropped 6 points on some poor souls, lol.

 

[Kranix]

 

[Kranix]

Here's Lindros during his Hart season 95

 

[PositiveCashFlow]

Is that real? His helmut has the Dallas logo on it

 

[Kranix]

Is that real? His helmut has the Dallas logo on it

He was in a Reuben-sandwich psychosis at the time

 

[pt_mck]

Is that real? His helmut has the Dallas logo on it

Legends/Alumni game probably

 

[Kranix]

 

[jukon]

Hell if I was a multi millionaire pro athelete, I wouldn't care about abs either.

 

[Iapyi]

Ovechkin is not out of shape. Too many people have a misguided understanding of what an athlete's body should look like.

As one can see with Emelianenko's body - posted above - there are different athletic body types and they're not all ripped.

The fact of the matter is that Ovechkin plays many minutes, does not get tired, and barely misses games. He's in amazing shape.

Floating around and not backchecking is a part of this.

This is not intended to start some argument about anything but it is the truth.

Fact of the matter is I don't know whether he's in shape or not but I do know that playing many minutes and not getting tired can have multiple reasons.

 

[Fig]

Lack of training: Mario
Ridiculous contortion: Hasek

 

[lawrence]

Drew Doughty. I read some where he hated working out.

 

[thadd]

Mario Lemieux I'd say. He may not look out of shape when he was playing, but he loved to mentioned in summers how he never worked out and drank wine and ate hot dogs.

Yeah I remember that too. But I think he started hitting the gym after his back started giving him problems. Still when he was at his best he wasn't hitting the gym.