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Originally Posted by NiklasSundblad
After years of often having star player x's brother on our squads, it's nice to be on the other side of that coin.
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Now I got curious of how many examples of this there really are.
Since 2000 there are as far as I can see Rob Niedermayer, Wayne Primeau, Staffan Kronwall and Niklas Andersson. Also Max Reinhart, Markus Granlund and Drew Shore in recent times. Freddie Hamilton obviously, but in that case we have the star brother on the roster as well, same with Richie Regehr.
Valeri Bure was the worse brother but still a star in his own right.
What star Brothers did we have? Dougie of course. Miikka Kiprusoff has been mentioned already and Robyn Regehr. Ronald Petrovicky was the better brother though a pretty poor one. A kind of funny case could actually also be made that Rico Fata was the best player between him and his brother, even though it's a terrible, terrible stretch.
I would say that it's slightly skewed towards the worse brothers, but all in all pretty much a wash.