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June 23

Sports siblings team/organization

Is it fair for sports to have the all of the siblings on the same team/organization as each other or majority them or spit them up? How often does this happened or will happened in the future?

Mean just look at NHL and majority of Staal brothers (Eric, Jordan-traded from Pittsburgh Penguins and Jared) on/in Carolina Hurricanes. With the remaining brother (Marc being on different team-NY Rangers) then them. Jordan could have just been traded to Rangers as much as the Hurricanes. But The Hurricanes had the better offer of the two teams that Penguins ended up choosing and etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mybodymyself (talk • contribs) 04:25, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

It's a business. "Fairness" doesn't really enter into it. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 05:36, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

It would also depend on the siblings...Daniel and Henrik Sedin on the same team is a powerful combination. Wayne and Brett Gretzky on the same team probably wouldn't make much of a difference. Adam Bishop (talk) 06:07, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Is it fair for one team to have better players than another team? Or is that the essence of sport? --Colapeninsula (talk) 09:46, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Fair to whom? By what criterion? How about you tell us why you think it might not be fair. —Tamfang (talk) 21:02, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

At least Michael Schumacher and his brother Ralf were never team mates, although they were in the same series. For me it's all right if siblings want to be in the same sport as long as they prove that they are good players in their own right (like Eli Manning and Peyton Manning). In fact, siblings can be quite a combination in sports (just look at Phil and James Younghusband, both of them are good football players in their own right, but they still frequently work together. As long as there's chemistry, then they'll be fine. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 12:02, 23 June 2012 (UTC)