Poll: NHL Entry Draft 2015: The Leafs

[Heroic Shrimp]

'When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean ? neither more nor less."

 

[Kin]

So you don't think a good skater for his size is an oxy, I do. I'm pleased to see an actual response. Since the NHL is populated by players of all sizes skating is rated in that environment not in some bizzaro world populated by extremely large players, the qualification therefore makes the statement an oxy.

No, see, the contradiction has to be inherent in the term. That's what the word means. In the NHL, the faster skaters tend to be the smaller players but bigger players can compensate with their size. So guys like Zdeno Chara and Hal Gill aren't super fast whereas Martin St. Louis could never have been in the NHL if he were slow. So a player being fast for his size is a legitimate thing to say as bigger players don't tend to be the fast ones and that's an assumption people then make.

Even still though, an oxymoron isn't just a word that is used to say an  statement is false or untrue, it has to be a figure of speech that is inherently contradictory by the definition of the words being used. "Being a good skater for a bigger player isn't a figure of speech and..."

You know what? Never mind. That's a really good oxymoron you used there. Really special.

 

[Jolly good show chaps]

Reminds me of "He's got good feet for a big man" which has become a bit of a clich? in football (soccer) over the past few years (the assumption being that tall players tend to be in the team to win headers/hold the ball up rather than because they are skillful). Because of my relative lack of hockey knowledge I'm not sure if the above could also be described as a clich? but it's what it made me think of at first read.

 

[KadriFan]

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