Perhaps Fedor Fedorov wants to be known as "the tough" Fedorov.

At 6'4" and 230 pounds, the Devils' pivot is a good two inches and 23 pounds bigger than his more celebrated older brother (the two are pictured at right), and he certainly has a bit of fiestiness to him that Sergei hasn't displayed (on the score sheet, at least) since he last dropped the gloves with Kelly Kisio back in 1992.

The younger Fedorov had 117 penalty minutes in 49 games in the RSL last season, at least fifteen of which came as the result of this scrap with former Washington Capitals wannabe pest Darcy Verot (who, to his own discredit, racked up a whopping 511 PIMs in just 43 games), and has already had his first scrap since coming back across the Atlantic, getting into a dust-up with Devils prospect Harry Young (who had 17 fights in the OHL last season) on the fourth day of Jersey's development camp.

Assuming that Fedor Fedorov is actually allowed to play in the NHL this season, he'll be picking up a torch he dropped when he last skated in an NHL game back on Halloween, 2005. Fedorov will be carrying on the great hockey tradition of being the far less talented of two brothers, in his case stinking relative to his nearest relative, Capitals pivot Sergei.

The standard-bearer in this tragicomic club, of course, is Brent Gretzky, he of the 13-game NHL career in which he fell just 2,853 points shy of his older brother's all-time regular season scoring record. But the Fedorov brothers are certainly up there in terms of total point differential, with a current differential of 1,144.

What makes each member of this grouping of brotherly busts noteworthy is that they had the talent (or perhaps merely the name) to get to the show, but nowhere near the skills of their superior siblings. They're hockey's Neil Connery. Puck's Jackie Jackson. The NHL's fat Kardashian sister.