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Power Forward has a few different requirements; the only one that tends to correspond directly to size is strength (which, granted, is the most important one.) But there have been effective power forwards who weren't huge.
For the fourth-line guy, it doesn't add any more to the overall tactical score to take a guy with a 2/5 score vs 2/2, but it makes more sense to put him in the /5 role because he'll get more of an advantage from the role's rating bonuses and be hurt less by its penalties - the bonuses are generally better at accentuating a player's strengths than compensating for his weaknesses. If, on the fourth line, you've got a good goalscorer who's a terrible playmaker and a good playmaker who's a terrible shooter, switching their roles will tend to make them both mediocre at everything, while putting them in the 'right' role will give you two guys who can feed off each other's strengths.
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