Value of: Shai Buium to Minnesota

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An equal RD or C prospect?
Our RD group is pretty barren at the moment. Center prospect group has guys like Kumuplainen/Bankier/Haight in it. Any of those guys of interest?
Why do people always want to unite brothers on the same team? Where has it worked long-term anywhere besides the Sedins in Vancouver?
Minnesota has a need for big defensemen with some skill. It's not solely based on him being Zeev's brother.
 

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Minnesota already has the best Buium, they don't need the other one ! They probably already have someone of the same talent as Shai in their system anyways. :dunno:
 

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Why do people always want to unite brothers on the same team? Where has it worked long-term anywhere besides the Sedins in Vancouver?
For young players being more comfortable in an organization. Extra motivation it causes players. Maybe to incentivize signing a player who may want to sign elsewhere because they don’t have any ties to a team that just selects a player in the draft. If they have family in the organization it makes it easier for that player.
 

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Why do people always want to unite brothers on the same team? Where has it worked long-term anywhere besides the Sedins in Vancouver?
I always say if this board had existed while 6 Sutter brothers were playing in the NHL, the internet would have broken with the threads trying to get them all on the same team.
 
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Why do people always want to unite brothers on the same team? Where has it worked long-term anywhere besides the Sedins in Vancouver?
Mahovlich's and Richard's in Montreal did ok. 29 Cups between them.

As far as the elder brother, if his last name wasn't Buium, would MN be even interested? Having family members on the same team can be problematic, because usually one is more talented than the other. If Shai is stuck in Iowa, and isn't playing with Zeev, do you risk alienating the family? If Shai(who appears likely to be a fringe NHL'er) makes the NHL team, is there grumbling on the team that he gets preferential treatment because of his brother?

The Sedins, Richards, Mahovlichs were a different because they were all terrific hockey players, so those issues didn't come up.
 
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Mahovlich's and Richard's in Montreal did ok. 29 Cups between them.

As far as the elder brother, if his last name wasn't Buium, would MN be even interested? Having family members on the same team can be problematic, because usually one is more talented than the other. If Shai is stuck in Iowa, and isn't playing with Zeev, do you risk alienating the family? If Shai(who appears likely to be a fringe NHL'er) makes the NHL team, is there grumbling on the team that he gets preferential treatment because of his brother?
Shai is I much better prospect than you give him credit for. He projects to be a 2nd pair guy who is big (6'3", 220 lb), fast, pretty good with the puck, and can defend. I doubt Detroit is interested in moving him. He doesn't have his brothers offensive upside, but will probably be the better defender.
 

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Look how far back you had to go.
You want to take the Sedin's out of the argument for some reason, and then you complain about recency when other examples are provided?

The fact is that other brothers have been successful playing together in the NHL. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Saku Koivu chose to not sign in Minnesota because he didn't want the family dynamic to mess with the hockey dynamic, but the Niedermayer's won a Cup together around the same time.

Different sets of brothers have different feelings on it. I would hope the Wild and Red Wings would consider that before making such a trade.
 

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You want to take the Sedin's out of the argument for some reason, and then you complain about recency when other examples are provided?

The fact is that other brothers have been successful playing together in the NHL. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Saku Koivu chose to not sign in Minnesota because he didn't want the family dynamic to mess with the hockey dynamic, but the Niedermayer's won a Cup together around the same time.

Different sets of brothers have different feelings on it. I would hope the Wild and Red Wings would consider that before making such a trade.
They're not going to consider it, because Detroit likes Shai and has no reason to trade him and Minnesota has no reason to want him outside of some weird brother fetish, because he's a fraction of the prospect his brother is.
 
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They're not going to consider it, because Detroit likes Shai and has no reason to trade him and Minnesota has no reason to want him outside of some weird brother fetish, because he's a fraction of the prospect his brother is.
Wrong, as stated in post #4. Minnesota needs big defenders with some level of skill. Our group is freaking tiny.
 
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