If scales could speak, the one that will be used at Canadian Tire Centre for Senators medicals Thursday morning would probably accuse Erik Karlsson of being an imposter.
Especially if it is the same scale the slick Swede stepped on when Ottawa drafted him as a 5-foot-10, 157-pounder.
At that time, there were those within the organization who insisted Karlsson wasn't even that big. But that was seven years, two Norris Trophies, at least a couple of inches and almost 40 pounds ago.
"I am massive," Karlsson said with a laugh Wednesday at Eagle Creek, where the Bell/Ottawa Senators Charity Golf Classic was hosted.