From “Yokozuna in the Crease,” David Pincus’ offbeat Classical think piece which wonders whether a sumo wrestler, or even someone more morbidly obese, could make an unbeatable hockey goalie:

“A more fascinating experiment was conducted by Todd Gallagher, who wrote about the theory in his book Andy Roddick Beat Me With a Frying Pan. Gallagher hired George A. Romero of Night of the Living Dead fame to create a prosthetic fat suit roughly the size of Robert Earl Hughes, an American who was considered the fattest man in the world when he died in 1958. Hughes weighed just over 1,000 pounds. Gallagher convinced a few Washington Capitals players to attempt to score on someone in the fat suit. The guy in the fat suit, who wasn’t even able to lift the prosthetic arms, blocked most of their shots by default. But even he couldn’t cover all 24 feet of scoring space, and the Caps players were able to score on him in breakaways and up close.”