A survey of age group ice hockey goal keepers

How large are age group ice hockey goal keepers who defend goals in the Canadian amateur hockey system? This and similar questions regarding physical size were the subject of a survey of age group ice hockey goal keepers from six age categories recognized by the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association. Of these six categories, only four, namely Mite, Pee Wee, Bantam, and Midget were sampled with sufficient frequency to be reported here. A non-amateur seventh category entitled Professional was also examined using the same survey instruments. The goalers participating in the survey provided anecdotal information, were weighed, height measured, and then photographed while in their goal keepers' 'crouch', both with and without their full goal keeping equipment. Non-inferential statistics of central tendency and dispersion were used to examine normalcies of anthropometric measures, proportionality of growth process, and distribution of apparent body size as determined from the blocking area of the body (frontal perspective).