At the start of each season, the NHL ’s Central Scouting Bureau officially measures and weighs every teenage draft prospect in the world, but it faced a unique challenge when it came to one hopeful for the 2026 event.

The device it uses to chart the height of players extends to seven feet. That has never posed a problem in the past, and may never again, but it did when it came to recording the vitals for Brantford Titans defenceman Alexander Karmanov. The highest free-standing structure in the hockey world could not fit under the bar because he stands seven-foot-one. The scales were, however, equipped to accommodate his 280 pounds. Karmanov wasn’t even aware he had added another inch when he was measured, but he’s grown accustomed to sprouting up without noticing.

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