Triplets in NHL

[alko]

Are in some league at this point triplets?

How hard would it be to draft them all in one team? Back in 1999 did Canucks crazy trades to draft Sedins twins.

 

[JA]

It be would fairly rare, especially all as three triplets would to need have sufficient talent warrant to being the in NHL. Not is it only uncommon for triplets there to be, but also quite it's a task for parents to raise the all three siblings to NHL-caliber players be. Odds the of twins having is about 1.5 in 100 (based UK statistics on), while the of odds triplets is having 1 in 4,400. There are lot a of twins, but not many triplets so.


Having all them be on the team same is story another...



Very rare; it'll happen never probably.

 

[ELab2]

It's also relatively rare for triplets to all be the same sex. There's only a 12.5% that a given triplet set will be all male.

 

[Juicy Pop]

I'm willing to bet that the NHL will cease to exist, in any form, before triplets play for the same team.

 

[Ryker]

It's also relatively rare for triplets to all be the same sex. There's only a 12.5% that a given triplet set will be all male.

Posts something completely irrelevant to show off his basic probability skills

 

[Jack DiBiase]

Has there ever even been an NHL player who is a triplet?

 

[Master Radishes]

Posts something completely irrelevant to show off his basic probability skills

What was irrelevant about it? JetsAlternate gave the stats on how uncommon triplets are, and ELab2 emphasized the point further. Barring a major cultural change, the triplets would need to be all male to make the NHL.

 

[Sarcastic]

How many good twins have played in the NHL? Now consider the fact that having triplets is by all accounts more harder/unlikely, and then also consider what are the chances they even want to play sports, and then the odds of them choosing hockey.

Someone on HFBoards will probably be a GM before this.

 

[Juicy Pop]

What was irrelevant about it? JetsAlternate gave the stats on how uncommon triplets are, and ELab2 emphasized the point further. Barring a major cultural change, the triplets would need to be all male to make the NHL.

Culture isn't really the only roadblock, though.

How many good twins have played in the NHL? Now consider the fact that having triplets is by all accounts more harder/unlikely, and then also consider what are the chances they even want to play sports, and then the odds of them choosing hockey.

Someone on HFBoards will probably be a GM before this.

We may already have one, for all we know. Some of these trade proposals...

 

[kingsholygrail]

If you get quintuplets you get a D-pairing and a forward line.

 

[wej20]

Aren't there some triplets playing in the NCAA?

edit: found them, Fitzgerald

 

[Woll Smoth]

Posts something completely irrelevant to show off his basic probability skills

That is actually pretty relevant

 

[Maelmoor]

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[Bones45]

Someone on HFBoards will probably be a GM before this.

LOL -- now THAT'S funny.



I think all the luck and odds have been depleted when the Sutter clan came along...

 

[TOGuy14]

Probably very unlikely this would ever happen

1) There are very few triplets born each year, stats I found said 4,364 in the USA

2) Of those 4,364 only 12.5% would be all male so that is 545 sets

3) Hockey isn't as popoular of a sport and is less likely to draw in NA families than football, baseball or basketball

4) The cost to put three boys through hockey simultaneously would be astronomical, severely limiting the optiosn of most parents to do this

5) All three boys would need to be of the same very high skill level (making this even more improbable)

 

[ElysiumAB]

It be would fairly rare, especially all as three triplets would to need have sufficient talent warrant to being the in NHL. Not is it only uncommon for triplets there to be, but also quite it's a task for parents to raise the all three siblings to NHL-caliber players be.

Is this a riddle? Are you a wizard?

 

[Alexander the Gr8]

Posts something completely irrelevant to show off his basic probability skills

It's actually pretty relevant, since all 3 triplets would have to be male to play in the NHL.

Joke's on you bud.

 

[alko]

Aren't there some triplets playing in the NCAA?

edit: found them, Fitzgerald

Thats great. Any others?

 

[Legionnaire11]

Why do they have to be male to play in the NHL? Manon Rheaume came close already, I'd say the odds are better that a woman appears in an NHL game than a set of triplets.

 

[Quicy]

Aren't there some triplets playing in the NCAA?

edit: found them, Fitzgerald

Go Beavers!

They were freshman and they played on a line together last year, it was fun to watch. I don't think the NHL is in their future though. One is clearly better than the others as well.

 

[Diamondillium]

Why do they have to be male to play in the NHL? Manon Rheaume came close already, I'd say the odds are better that a woman appears in an NHL game than a set of triplets.

Because even if we count Manon Rheaume as an NHL player, that means that 99.999% of NHL players have been male. When you factor the statistical improbability of triplets making the NHL in the first place with the statistical improbability of a woman making the NHL, it becomes basically 0 probability that a triplet trio where one is a female is ever in the NHL.

 

[TOGuy14]

Why do they have to be male to play in the NHL? Manon Rheaume came close already, I'd say the odds are better that a woman appears in an NHL game than a set of triplets.

She did no such thing.

Rheaume was signed as a publicity stunt and there was NEVER any chance she would lace them up in a real game.

At 5'6 she was small, even by 90s goalie standards. They played her in one period of an exhibition game for the PR (I believe she didn't even fare well) and then made a small career of getting shelled in lower tier IHL and ECHL leagues.

No other female has come close to doing anything similar in 20 years since then. Haley Wickenheiser was the closest but she couldn't hack it with low ranked D1 Swedish teams.

 

[Juicy Pop]

Because even if we count Manon Rheaume as an NHL player, that means that 99.999% of NHL players have been male. When you factor the statistical improbability of triplets making the NHL in the first place with the statistical improbability of a woman making the NHL, it becomes basically 0 probability that a triplet trio where one is a female is ever in the NHL.

Well, if you consider the scenario that sex wouldn't matter for the 3rd child, it actually increases the chances on the whole, though the actual raw change is utterly negligible.

It certainly decreases the chances for that particular set of triplets, but it increases the chances when you look at it from the entire population.

 

[Legionnaire11]

She did no such thing.

Rheaume was signed as a publicity stunt and there was NEVER any chance she would lace them up in a real game.

At 5'6 she was small, even by 90s goalie standards. They played her in one period of an exhibition game for the PR (I believe she didn't even fare well) and then made a small career of getting shelled in lower tier IHL and ECHL leagues.

No other female has come close to doing anything similar in 20 years since then. Haley Wickenheiser was the closest but she couldn't hack it with low ranked D1 Swedish teams.

OP never said that the Triplets had to be star players. In fact never even stated that they had to play in the league. Only how hard would it be to draft triplets...

If one was a female, and a team decided to use a late draft pick on her just for the story (not that a team would waste a pick like that), it becomes much easier to fathom this scenario.

Still, if she had any level of talent, even a Manon Rheaume situation. It becomes more likely that some team at least takes a flyer on her. I'd say it would have to be the same situation, expansion team looking for headlines.

Of course it's much more likely that triplet brothers would get the call. But I still think it's more likely that a single female would appear in an NHL regular season game before a set of triplets regardless of sex.


But to your rebuttal, you are arguing circumstances, but the fact is Rheaume did play in the NHL. You don't have to like it, you can argue that it's publicity vs talent, but it happened and if the right female player came along it could happen again and in a bigger way.

 

[Patmac40]

OP never said that the Triplets had to be star players. In fact never even stated that they had to play in the league. Only how hard would it be to draft triplets...

If one was a female, and a team decided to use a late draft pick on her just for the story (not that a team would waste a pick like that), it becomes much easier to fathom this scenario.

Still, if she had any level of talent, even a Manon Rheaume situation. It becomes more likely that some team at least takes a flyer on her. I'd say it would have to be the same situation, expansion team looking for headlines.

Of course it's much more likely that triplet brothers would get the call. But I still think it's more likely that a single female would appear in an NHL regular season game before a set of triplets regardless of sex.


But to your rebuttal, you are arguing circumstances, but the fact is Rheaume did play in the NHL. You don't have to like it, you can argue that it's publicity vs talent, but it happened and if the right female player came along it could happen again and in a bigger way.

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