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Originally Posted by Justin Montois
Already sold in Red and Blue and at 2 7/8" in diameter, they would fit nicely in a long tube which is being given to teams because the minimum order of 100 is a little high for many teams so FIRST bought a bunch and is helping teams out. A 3" x 3" x 60" tube should do nicely.
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I'm not trying to discredit anything you said there (personally I love the hockey game idea and I was actually hoping that last year's game would be hockey), but there might be some problems with the math involved.
Firstly, actual hockey pucks are made to be an inch thick. Of course, this could be different for the foam pucks (the website only gives a diameter, not a thickness), but I feel that, if anything, you could actually compress the foam pucks down to less than an inch thick. Which means that if you believe that the 3" x 3" x 60" object from the KOP is a tube for holding the foam pucks, then each team will be receiving around 60 pucks in their tube. Now the website for the foam pucks says that they each weigh approximately 2 oz. If we take 60 pucks multiplied by 2 oz. each, then we end up with 120 oz. or 7.5 Lb. However, the KOP list states that the 3" x 3" x 60" object weighs only 6 pounds. While it's not a huge difference by any means, but it is significant (a difference of 12 foam pucks).
But that doesn't necessarily shut down that idea. The easiest solution is that both the foam puck website and the KOP list state that the measurements are only
approximate. A little change in the weight of each puck (as small as 0.4 oz.) could make up for the difference. Additionally, the tube does
not need to be jammed as full as possible with pucks. There can easily be 12 inches of empty space or packaging in each tube to made up for the 12 pucks worth of weigh. And that just seems to make more sense to me because I don't see the need for every team to receive 60 pucks. 60 just seems a tad bit excessive (unless if you plan to go to a hockey game soon and throw them onto the rink).
So really, while there may have been some minor math problems with your idea (clearly someone forget that we always assume that we are working in a frictionless vacuum with spherical cows), they can all be easily justified. So in reality, this post should have made your claim just a little bit stronger. Which is great because now I can say:
HOCKEY GAME CONFIRMED!