Is There A Father Son Possibility in the NHL?

[NVious]

With Lebron James slated to play with his son Bronny, in the NHL we've already had the Howes play together for a year, are there any current NHL players with prospect sons?

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[Soundgarden]

I'm sure Jagr has some kids out there somewhere.

 

[Jacob]

NHLers aren’t having kids at 19.

 

[matt trick]

It's possible, but it'll take three things:

1. Long tenure of Dad (ideally to 41+).
2. Rapid development of Son into NHL player (2 years or less)
3. Dad needs to have Son relatively young 22-24.

Tij and Jarome Iginla have the first two, but think Tij was born when Jarome was like 29. He's been retired for 7 years, so they're a pretty good way off. Not a statistically impossibility though. I'd guess it'll happen.

 

[NVious]

NHLers aren’t having kids at 19.

Hopefully some of the young prospects that come on HF can change this. #BeTheChangeYouWantToSee

 

[Ezekial]

Bronny shouldn't even be an NBA player and was only drafted because of who his dad is.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

I'm not a basketball fan, but everything suggests Bronny sucks.

He's like Brodeur drafting his son in the 7th round, but they're going to force Bronny to play.

 

[SomeDude]

Crosby and the Flyers have played in many games together.

 

[AnInjuredJasonZucker]

These Perry/Bedard jokes have to stop.

 

[Pierre from Orleans]

Back breaking goals is Korpisalos daddy.

 

[ACLEVERNAME]

Keith gonna come out of retirement to play with Mathhew and Brady one day. He's only about a month out from game shape.

 

[Mickey Marner]

Brent Burns’ kid is pretty good, but he’d need to play like 5 more years or something.

While not the NHL, Michael and William Nylander played together in Sweden.

 

[tabness]

happened in the WHA with the Howe's

Bedard/Perry joke was real good, Crosby/Flyers too, keep em coming boys

 

[Section 104]

NHLers aren’t having kids at 19.

19 year olds aren’t having sex anymore???

 

[ozzie]

The Howe's get no respect.

 

[LeBrun is a Clown]

It happened this year in the finals.

Tkachuk and McDavid

McDavid must feel real proud of his daddy

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[Section 104]

I think the oldest current player is Marc-Andre Fleury who is 39. Guys like Ovechkin and Burns are 38. Fleury son is, what 5 or something. Some recent goalies last into their early 40s like Ryan Miller and Craig Anderson. You have the three players who were in the late 1940s still playing: Geordie Howe, Chris Chelios and Jaromir Jagr.

It could happen but you’d have to have everything break right. A player in his early 40s (a goalie most likely) who became a father while young and that son is a top rated #1 or #2 draft pick at 18..no more training needed.

Besides the almost certain to happen Lebron and Bronny James, baseball has had two father-son at the same time. Tim Raines Sr and Jr played a couple games together with Baltimore in 2001. Ken Griffey Sr and Jr starting 8/31/1990 with Seattle and ending 5/31/1991

 

[innitfam]

It's certainly possible timeline wise but the kid would need to basically make the NHL at 18 to make it happen.

 

[DudeWhereIsMakar]

Well, with nobody being able to afford hockey except ex-NHLers and rich kids I think that's all we're gonna see is the players of kids only.

 

[Cizin]

happened in the WHA with the Howe's

Bedard/Perry joke was real good, Crosby/Flyers too, keep em coming boys

Mark, Marty, and Gordie all played for the NHL Whalers in 1979-80. Gordie played 80 games at age 51!

 

[Ivo]

Ziggy Palffy had a son as a 20 years old and they both played in the Slovak league at the same time for a couple of seasons. Not the same team and Ziggy didn’t ackowledge him as a son back then (he later did). Not NHL, but shows it can happen.

 

[The Panther]

Mark, Marty, and Gordie all played for the NHL Whalers in 1979-80. Gordie played 80 games at age 51!

He was actually 52 for his final seven NHL games (RS and playoffs). He scored on a flukey backhander at the Montreal Forum in the playoffs in April 1980, his next-to-last game. (He'd first played at the Forum in October 1946.)

Ray Ferraro remembered his first season with Hartford (1984-85) when Howe would often come out to practices and skate with the team. He was 57-58 then.

 

[HaNotsri]

Ziggy Palffy had a son as a 20 years old and they both played in the Slovak league at the same time for a couple of seasons. Not the same team and Ziggy didn’t ackowledge him as a son back then (he later did). Not NHL, but shows it can happen.

This is an amazing story

 

[ItWasJustified]

I'm not a basketball fan, but everything suggests Bronny sucks.

He's like Brodeur drafting his son in the 7th round, but they're going to force Bronny to play.

Good. Floorsqueak as a sport is a joke and should be treated as such. I'm happy even the people in the sport knows that.

 

[Jocke1]

I think the oldest current player is Marc-Andre Fleury who is 39.

He's the oldest goalie, yes.
But there were three other players this season born before Fleury:
Mark Giordano, Joe Pavelski and Zach Parise.