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Video- Burrow’s Shootout Goal Would Have Counted
by Paul on 01/29/13 at 01:40 PM ET
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Greg Wyshynski of Puck Daddy with the video evidence.
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Alex Burrows Re-Signs For Four Years With Vancouver
by Paul on 09/14/12 at 03:05 PM ET
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Vancouver, B.C. - Vancouver Canucks President & General Manager Mike Gillis announced today that the Canucks have re-signed left wing Alex Burrows.
Burrows, 31, collected 52 points (28-24-52) and 90 penalty minutes in 80 games played in 2011.12. He also set a career high for most game-winning goals in a season with seven, ranking 11th in the League in this category. Following the conclusion of the season, Burrows represented Team Canada at the World Championships.
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Can The Canucks Sign Burrows Before He Hits UFA Status Next July
by Paul on 08/13/12 at 01:30 PM ET
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from Gord McIntyre of the Vancouver Province,
He’s 31 and entering the fourth and final year of a contract that gives rise to a whole new definition of “hometown discount,” at $2 million a season.
In the past six seasons Burrows has missed only 11 games, so he’s durable.
He has leadership qualities, understands the game extremely well and, should his goal scoring start to decline, he could still play a major defensive role in the likes of a Guy Carbonneau or Mike Keane.
Burrows, who has averaged just under 30 goals the past three seasons, could garner $4.5-$5 million for four or five years on the open market and that’s probably too rich for the Canucks.
Here’s what some comparable players make: Andrew Ladd, $4.4 million, four more years; Johan Franzen, $3.95 million, seven more years; Erik Cole, $4.5 million, three more years.
Burrows is head-and-shoulders the best winger the Sedins have had. It’ll be interesting to watch this develop over the course of the season (calls to the Canucks and Burrows agent were not returned, this being the dog days of August and most normal people thinking cottage, not Canucks).
more on the Canucks…
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A Long Road To The NHL For Burrows
by Paul on 02/20/12 at 06:54 PM ET
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from Brad Ziemer of the Vancouver Sun,
About a six-hour drive southeast of Nashville, where Alex Burrows will play his 500th NHL game on Tuesday, is Greenville, South Carolina.
It’s a million miles from the NHL, but it’s where Burrows’ improbable professional hockey journey began nearly a decade ago.
Hockey wasn’t big in Greenville, or for that matter Baton Rouge, La., or Columbia, S.C., the other two stops Burrows made in the East Coast Hockey League.
He remembers long bus rides, punctuated by stops at places like McDonald’s and Subway to help the players stretch their paltry per diems. And he remembers that all anyone seemed to care about in those places was college football and basketball. A hockey puck was a foreign object.
It was a tough environment in which to chase your NHL dream, especially for a player like Burrows who had been passed up in the NHL draft.
“It was always a dream to play in the NHL and it was really a big dream sometimes with those long bus rides,” Burrows said before the Canucks departed Monday for Nashville. “You are going to games where there are no scouts and no one really cares about hockey. It’s all about college football, college basketball, that’s all people really care about. It’s tough to get out of there.”
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Is It Time We Put An End To the Finger Taunting?
by Paul on 06/07/11 at 01:34 AM ET
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I vote yes!
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Video- A Different Look At The Burrows OT Goal
by Paul on 06/05/11 at 02:10 AM ET
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Be sure to check out Canucks & Beyond for all the game and post-game coverage.
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Goalie Contact Calls Getting Clarification Today
by Alanah McGinley on 06/03/11 at 08:19 PM ET
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From Eric Duhatschek at the Globe & Mail:
Burrows took four penalties in the opener and coach Alain Vigneault suggested one - a goalie interference call on Tim Thomas - was largely unwarranted. The contact, in that case, did appear to be incidental and the Canucks have said that between games, they have contacted the NHL to get a clarification about why those calls are made, if Thomas is always leaving the crease to stop the puck. Thomas’s counterpart, Roberto Luongo, changed his style this season, to play deeper in the net, and Vigneault implied it had to do with avoiding incidental conduct.
According to Burrows, the answers were expected to come later Friday.
“At the same, I’ve got to be aware, around the net, to make sure I can’t bump the goalie. That’s his ice if he’s already there. I have to be smarter and make sure I don’t put my team down a man.”
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Bite Or Not?
by Paul on 06/02/11 at 11:05 AM ET
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Alex Burrows and Patrice Bergeron discuss the incident.
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Burrows Takes A Major, Coyotes Score Twice
by Paul on 03/19/11 at 10:52 AM ET
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The Vancouver/Phoenix game was tied 0-0 with about 9 minutes left in the 3rd when Alex Burrows was assessed a five minute major for boarding, plus a ten and game misconduct.
The final score, Yotes 3, Canucks 1.
Watch the hit along with a few players discussing it, including Burrows. Have to chuckle at Luongo saying he never saw the hit, the replay doesn’t lie Roberto.
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Kevin Bieksa & Alex Burrows Share A Chat In The Dressing Room
by Paul on 01/27/11 at 06:24 PM ET
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ESPN captures the moment.
Yes, I had Kesler in the headline instead of Bieksa and now fixed. Told you folks I need to recharge, I could feel it and this proves it.
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Burrows Continues To Rehab Shoulder
by Paul on 08/20/10 at 12:31 PM ET
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from Brad Ziemer of PuckWorld at the Vancouver Sun,
Winger Alex Burrows has spent the past several days in Vancouver doing some rehab work on his surgically repaired shoulder.
Burrows had surgery to repair a torn labrum back in early June. The Canucks aren’t saying when Burrows will be ready to play, but this type of injury generally requires anywhere from four to six months of recovery time.
“At this point he’s working through his therapy program, he’s progressing and he’ll be evaluated again closer to the start of training camp,” assistant general manager Laurence Gilman said Thursday.
The Canucks are not making Burrows available for media interviews.
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Afternoon Line
by Paul on 04/08/10 at 06:35 PM ET
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“We don’t mind facing anyone, but as far as Detroit, the only thing I dislike is having to fly there and having to stay there, to have to spend a couple of days in that city.”
“Hockey-wise, they’re a good team, but they’re very beatable. The last time we were at their building, we won 6-3.
“All the teams in the West are good, and any team you play is a tough challenge. No one is a walk in the park.”
-Alex Burrows of the Vancouver Canucks when asked about playing the Red Wings in the playoffs. More on playing the Wings from Tom Mantzouranis of NHL Fanhouse.
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Did Burrows Do It Again?
by Paul on 04/05/10 at 10:34 AM ET
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from Michael Russo of Russo’s Rants,
It’s hard to say the Wild got the shaft after referees Dennis LaRue and Brad Meier awarded them eight power plays, of which the Wild only scored on the final one, BUT, the Wild got the shaft.
After the Wild shockingly forced overtime on goals by Cody Almond and Antti Miettinen 23 seconds apart in the final 42 seconds of the third period, Alex Burrows, the king embellisher in the NHL, drew a bogus penalty in overtime when he lifted Greg Zanon’s stick into his own face and then shot his head back like he was nailed by a Matt Cooke elbow.
Zanon was called for high-sticking even though Burrows essentially high-sticked himself. It’s clear as day on video.
The refs bit, the Canucks got a 4-on-3 power play and the Canucks won it on Sami Salo’s blast through traffic. So, basically, Burrows—as is his reputation—once again made a pair of refs look bad.
Now, this was not an easy call. In real time, the refs see Zanon’s stick in Burrows’ face, so it’s hard to blame LaRue and Meier. So here’s the solution: Burrows is a known diver, an embellisher and really I’m amazed refs ever give him the benefit of the doubt.
continued and I looked for a video of the play but no luck. Did anyone see it and if so, do you agree with Russo?
added 8:38am, You can watch the game recap at TSN which shows the penalty, although brief.
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Burrows Take A Shot To The Throat
by Paul on 04/02/10 at 10:47 AM ET
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from Jason Botchford of the Vancouver Province,
First reports from the medical room indicated Burrows was hit in the trachea area. There was no need for him to be taken immediately to hospital. Not long after the shot, he was upright and breathing fine. The concern was with the swelling. In 2007, when Roberto Luongo was hit in the throat in Montreal, the swelling forced him to spend a night in hospital.
more on Vancouver injuries…
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Fighting Words
by Paul on 11/22/09 at 10:55 PM ET
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via Ben Kuzma of The White Towel,
“Obviously, there’s a rivalry,” understated (Alex) Burrows. “I know a lot of guys in this lockerroom don’t really like their players and we’re not big fans of them. But at the same time we’ve got to play smart.”
Puck drops just after 10:00pm ET tonight, Chicago vs. Vancouver, I’ll be watching, need a hockey fix quick…
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Burrows Accused Of On-Ice Incident
by Paul on 08/03/09 at 11:50 AM ET
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from TSN,
Vancouver Canucks forward Alex Burrows could be facing charges for an on-ice incident in a Montreal summer league game.
According to a report on RDS.ca, an investigation is underway in response to a complaint filed on July 21 that states Burrows violently struck the face of a goaltender with his stick during a game at the Excellent Ice Arena in Kirkland, Que.
The report said the family of the goaltender, 19-year old Koray Celik, would not comment about the incident on the advice of lawyers.
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Burrows Finally Arrives
by Paul on 04/18/09 at 11:56 AM ET
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from Teryy Jones of the Edmonton Sun,
Alex Burrows sits beside Roberto Luongo in the Vancouver Canucks dressing room. And he plays on the same line as Daniel and Henrik Sedin.
When you’ve recently played for the Baton Rouge Kingfish, Columbia Inferno and the Greenville Grrrowl in the ECHL, this is the kind of stuff you don’t even dare dream about.
When you are a bigger name in ball hockey than an actual hockey, playing on the No. 1 line on a top team in the Stanley Cup playoffs and sitting beside the great goalie/captain is pretty heady stuff.
“I was making $425 a week and living the dream,” said Burrows when he came off the ice for the morning skate prior to Game 2 of the series against the St. Louis Blues.
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Burrows Fined
by Paul on 04/08/09 at 12:55 PM ET
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from Ben Kuzma of the Vancouver Province via Faceoff.com,
When Colin Campbell called Alex Burrows on Monday, the NHL’s disciplinarian didn’t wish the feisty winger good luck in the postseason. He wished Burrows would stop pushing the envelope.
In that regard, Campbell gave Burrows a slap on the wrist by slapping him with a $2,500 US fine for reaching out from the bench Saturday and punching Oilers enforcer Zack Stortini in the final minute of play at Edmonton. Burrows got a 10-minute misconduct.
“I wasn’t too happy about it [fine], and I let him know,” said Burrows. “He said I was on his watch list for a while, and he said there were two incidents from last year and with my reputation, he was watching me. But I told him I’ve been good lately, and I don’t know why I should be on that watch list….”
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Blackhawks Talk Hair Pulling Incident
by Paul on 03/30/09 at 07:49 PM ET
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via Chris Kuc of Icing at the Chicago Tribune,
During the melee, Vancouver’s Alex Burrows and the Hawks’ Duncan Keith got tangled and Burrows yanked Keith to the ice by his hair and continued pulling on the defenseman’s mane as they wrestled on the ice.
“That’s not something I’ve ever had happen to me,” Keith said. “My little sister never even pulled my hair when I was a kid. It’s kind of comical when you have a grown man trying to pull your hair on the ice.”
“I don’t know what the ruling is,” Keith said. “I don’t know if the league reviews that or not. It’s pretty blatant he was pulling my hair.”
The pulling of hair is prohibited and normally would draw a match penalty. However, none of the officials on the ice saw it as they were tending to ther other fights on the ice.
“I think it’s silly,” Hawks forward Adam Burish said. “There’s no spot for that. I think that’s stupid the way he was pulling [Keith’s] hair. Especially a nice haircut like Duncan has. I didn’t see it at the time [but] I’m sure I would have been more mad than I was already.”
The video of the whole incident was posted on KK early today if you missed it.
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Burrows On The NFL
by Paul on 01/17/09 at 12:17 PM ET
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Alex Burrows of the Vancouver Canucks breaks down the NFL Conference Championship games.
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Watch What You Say
by Paul on 02/29/08 at 12:00 PM ET
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from the Vancouver Province,
In a telephone conversation with NHL disciplinarian Colin Campbell following practice, the Vancouver Canucks winger was informed his pre-game incident with Detroit Red Wings pest Aaron Downey at centre ice Saturday at GM Place has not escaped closer scrutiny.
“I thought we had moved on from that incident and I don’t know how much [the fine] will be and I’ll probably get a letter,” said Burrows. “Hopefully, the next pay cheque will be in.”
When Burrows checked in for work Saturday, he and Downey sparked a brief scrum during the warm-up.
“He wanted to get his team going and he said he was going to take care of me,” recalled Burrows. “I was ready for him. I asked him how his potato farm was doing. He probably likes the french fries the most because he’s a little chubby.”
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