(Is that the proper plural form of "Dupuis?")
A few of you have asked us about this and we were initially unable to find anything definitive on the Web. So we called the Avalanche directly and found out Colorado forward Philippe Dupuis, a recent call-up from Lake Erie of the AHL, is not a brother or any other sort of relative of Penguins forward Pascal Dupuis.
There was reason to suspect they were though. Both are from Laval, Quebec. Their dimensions are a little bit similar. Pascal is 6-foot-1, 205 pounds while Philippe runs 6-foot-0, 192 pounds. And there's only a difference of six years in age between the two. And they both apparently love their bed heads.
But there is no sort of family relation between the two. So whatever "the XXXX's are brothers" fetish you might have will not be satisfied when the Penguins play at Colorado tomorrow. You're stuck with the Staals as far as the Penguins are concerned. Unless of course Andrew Orpik ever plays for the Sabres.
Posted
Jan 09 2009, 10:25 AM
by
Seth Rorabaugh