Blade length performance tuning?

[markush 12]

When taking a look at the skate information of the Pittsburgh Penguins I noticed that most players have a blade length of

280mm and more (up to 306). Is that because they have such huge shoe sizes or are they tuning / increasing the blade length
to get more power of of their strides?

[jimmy 194]

Our best selling size runner to average Joes is 280. I would think the NHL simply recruits big guys and that probably equates to bigger feet.

[jsykes 35]

They arent sizing up, they're just big guys. But you do realize that, generally, a 280 is a size 9/9.5 skate and 288 is size 10/10.5.

So if you look at that chart, the majority of them are a size 9-10.5 skate which is pretty average.

[markush 12]

Wow, could hardly imagine they have such big feets ... now I feel so little with 8 and 272mm runner length :)

[chanxebyshev 8]

Big guys, I'm 5'9 and wear a 7 in bauer which is 263 holder, closest person to me is Vitale in a 272 so he is likely between size 8-9 skate, but you can fit a bigger holder on your skate if you are on the high end of a size, if I wore a 7.5 I bet I could get a 272 on it which is typically on a 8 or 8.5 retail skate

# Name Height Weight

2 Matt Niskanen 6' 0" 209

5 Deryk Engelland 6' 2" 202

7 Paul Martin 6' 1" 200

9 Pascal Dupuis 6' 1" 205

14 Chris Kunitz "A" 6' 0" 193

15 Tanner Glass 6' 1" 210

16 Brandon Sutter 6' 3" 183

17 Dustin Jeffrey 6' 1" 205

18 James Neal 6' 2" 208

19 Beau Bennett 6' 2" 207

27 Craig Adams 6' 0" 197

29 Marc-Andre Fleury 6' 2" 180

36 Jussi Jokinen 5' 11" 198

41 Robert Bortuzzo 6' 4" 215

44 Brooks Orpik "A" 6' 2" 219

46 Joe Vitale 5' 11" 205

47 Simon Despres 6' 4" 214

58 Kris Letang 6' 0" 201

71 Evgeni Malkin "A" 6' 3" 195

87 Sidney Crosby "C" 5' 11" 200

92 Tomas Vokoun 6' 1" 210

That chart is really cool though, never seen one, noticed almost nobody uses FBV

[jake1873 0]

It says on the chart Iginla wears CCM skates but isn't he sponsored by Easton. I looked it up on Google Images and he has CCM skates that is strange.