Cooper Black to Become Tallest Goalie in NHL History

There's going to be a goaltender for the Florida Panthers making his NHL debut tonight. They're in Pittsburgh. I remember they were in Ottawa last night, emotional game with Brady Tkachuk going back to Ottawa and everything else. So they're flying to Pittsburgh, and Cooper Black is starting in goal. Good story, Scott, right? Yeah, good story. AHL goaltender. He's 25 years old. He's bounced around the minors there, paid his dues, if you will. Pretty good season last year down with the Charlotte Checkers of the AHL. uh 2.47 goals against average over .96 percentage in 42 games in which he won 25 13 and 4 right so okay big deal we've seen that before right uh not this dude i don't know if you've seen a picture of him but he stands six foot eight as a goaltender he will become the biggest goaltender in nhl history when he gets the start tonight i saw that six foot eight you know my bad i should have given the guys a picture of him i saw it on twitter this afternoon i didn't realize i was doing the show until late so i couldn't get it his his his waist Craig comes up to the post of the crossbar that that that's how tall he is i mean his whole body is on is over the crossbar it is just i don't know how the dude gets down to stop the puck i mean because you know most goaltenders they scrunch right they scrunch down a little bit and they can slide to the left they slide to the right and they block it with their shoulders and stuff you know kick save maybe but this dude is so tall he'd have to be on his knees literally to stop the puck with his chest unless the puck is going to go five feet over the net so i mean he's but he's pretty good i mean obviously he's in the nhl right and even in the AHL which was pretty good hockey he had some success so i don't know how he stops pucks like How about a slap shot to the left or right? I mean, his legs are so big. How is he stopping a puck that's on the ice when there's a scrum? I don't know, Scott. That's a good one. I don't know. You have to tell me. I don't know. It doesn't seem normal for me. But, I mean, how did he do in the minors, Scott? I have no clue. Like, this is new to me. So, is there any data or anything like that of how he performed? I suppose they wouldn't call him up. Is this out of emergency of any kind for the Panthers? Jake Barstrom uh got hurt, so he's going to be out a couple of weeks. But he was pretty good down in the AHL, 25, 13, and 4. He had a goals against average of 2.47. So that's pretty good. I mean, under three, right? Yeah, I would say so. So I don't know if people go out of their way to watch hockey, but I'm going to go out of my way tonight to watch at least a little bit of this stuff. I just want to see how he, you know. But I guess if he can stop pucks in the AHL He can in the NHL I know they're coming at you probably a little bit faster But I'm fascinated by a guy that's nearly 7 feet playing goalie And like I said, when you look at the picture And you see him standing next to the net That's where it's really tough That must be funny That puts it into perspective Give me a reason to check it out tonight then