Brent Burns

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Brent Burns
Date of birth March 9, 1985
place of birth Barrie , Ontario , Canada
size 196 cm
Weight 99 kg
position defender
number # 88
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2003 , 1st round, 20th position
Minnesota Wild
Career stations
2000-2001 North York Canadiens
2001-2002 Couchiching Terriers
2002-2003 Brampton Battalion
2003-2004 Minnesota Wild
2004-2005 Houston Eros
2005-2011 Minnesota Wild
since 2011 San Jose Sharks

William Brent Burns (born March 9, 1985 in Barrie , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the San Jose Sharks from the National Hockey League since June 2011 . There he established himself among the best defensive players in the league, for example he was awarded the James Norris Memorial Trophy as best NHL defender in 2017 . Previously, he spent eight years in the organization of the Minnesota Wild , which had selected him in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft in 20th position. Burns won gold medals with the Canadian national team at the 2015 World Cup and the 2016 World Cup of Hockey .

Career

Brent Burns played during his junior years until 2002 first in the lower class junior leagues of the province of Ontario with the Toronto Marlboros , North York Canadiens and Couchiching Terriers . After being elected in the OHL Priority Selection of 2001 by the Brampton Battalion from the Ontario Hockey League , the then right winger joined the team for the 2002/03 season . The season in the OHL, in which he played 68 games and recorded 40 scorer points, was also his only one at this level in the junior division. When he was elected to the league's first all rookie team, he drew attention to himself for the upcoming 2003 NHL Entry Draft . In the first round he was selected in 20th place by the Minnesota Wild from the National Hockey League . They immediately signed the 18-year-old.

Through the training camp held in September 2003, the Canadian immediately secured a place in the Wild squad and was retrained as an attacking defender by Minnesota's head coach at the time, Jacques Lemaire . This was also due to the fact that the Wild were generally defensive at that time and wanted to make better use of the qualities of their rookies. In the course of the 2003/04 season Burns was used in a total of 36 games - he missed the rest due to the secondment to the Canadian U20 national team for the U20 Junior World Championship and as a reservist in the Wild - and collected six points scorer. He was also used once on Minnesota's farm team , the Houston Eros , from the American Hockey League .

Due to the lockout and the associated complete failure of the 2004/05 NHL season , the defender spent the entire season with the Eros in the AHL in order to continue to improve in his new position and also to get used to the faster game with the professionals. With 27 scorer points in 73 games, he knew how to convince, so that from the 2005/06 season he became a regular at the Minnesota Wild. After he was able to increase to 16 scorer points in his second NHL year, he improved these values ​​in the following two years from 25 to 43 in the 2007/08 game year .

Burns in the jersey of the San Jose Sharks (2011)

With the beginning of the 2008/09 season Burns was used variably and played both as a striker and defender. His season ended after 59 missions due to a concussion which, according to his advisor, was incorrectly diagnosed as a sinus infection by the Minnesota medical department over a period of six weeks . After the end of the season, in which he had collected 27 points, persistent problems on the shoulder made an operation inevitable. In the 2009/10 season , the Canadian was initially faithful to his injuries when he suffered another concussion shortly after the start of the season, which put him out of action until mid-January 2010. Burns ended the season marked by injuries with 20 points in 47 games. It was not until the 2010/11 season that the versatile defender returned to his old strength and was used in 80 of the 82 games. Only a suspension of two games by a rude attack on Steve Bernier of the Florida Panthers prevented the missing two inserts. With 17 goals and 46 scorer points, he also set new career records. He was also invited to the NHL All-Star Game for the first time .

Nevertheless, Burns' time with the Wild ended prematurely a year before his contract expired. As part of the 2011 NHL Entry Draft , on June 24, 2011, the Minnesota Wild gave it to the San Jose along with a second-round vote in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft in exchange for Devin Setoguchi , Charlie Coyle and a first-round vote in the upcoming draft Sharks off. They extended the contract, which expired after the 2011/12 season , by five years in August 2011 with a total salary of 28.8 million US dollars, thereby tying their new acquisitions for the long term. In San Jose Burns initially played again exclusively as a defender and completed two solid seasons by the summer of 2013. With the rise of defender Matt Irwin to the regular squad in March 2013, Burns moved back to the position on the right wing, where he also spent the entire 2013/14 season. There he was able to increase his career record with 48 scorer points. This he succeeded in the following seasons, which he ran again as a defender. First, he made it to 60 scorer points in the 2014/15 season , followed by 75 points in the 2015/16 season . He also took part in the All-Star Game again in both seasons. He was also honored with the NHL Foundation Player Award in 2015 for his special commitment to charitable causes in society. However, the 2015/16 game year was even more successful. He finished the season as the most dangerous defender in the entire league and the best points defender in the play-offs, in which the Sharks advanced to the final. His achievements were ultimately honored with the election to the NHL Second All-Star Team . After the season, in November 2016, Burns signed a new contract in San Jose that should earn him an average annual salary of $ 8 million over the next eight seasons.

At the end of the 2016/17 season, Burns was honored with the James Norris Memorial Trophy as the best defensive player in the league and was appointed to the NHL First All-Star Team for the first time . In December 2018 he played his 1000th NHL game of the regular season and finally ended the 2018/19 game year with a personal best of 83 points, so that he was again considered in the NHL First All-Star Team.

International

At the international level, Burns first came to his home country when he had already switched to the professional camp. At the U20 World Junior Championships in Finland in 2004 , he won the silver medal - used as a striker - with the Canadians after a 3: 4 final defeat against the United States. Burns was used in all six tournament games and posted just as many assists. Together with the American Zach Parise and teammate Anthony Stewart , these were also most of a player in the course of the tournament.

In the men's race, Burns ran for the first time at the 2008 World Cup , which was held in the Canadian cities of Halifax and Québec . There the team around Burns had to admit defeat again in the final of the two previously undefeated favorites Russia and Canada 4: 5, whereby he again won a silver medal. Furthermore, he was selected as the best defender of the tournament, to which his three goals and a total of nine scorer points contributed significantly. Then the Canadian took part in the World Championships 2010 in Germany and 2011 in Slovakia , which were less successful with the elimination in the quarter-finals and the final placements seven and five.

The defender did not return to the national team until the 2015 World Cup in the Czech Republic and was finally able to win the gold medal he wanted. In the final, the Canadian team clearly beat arch-rivals Russia 6-1. Burns was once again voted the best defender of the tournament with his eleven points in ten games and was also appointed to the All-Star team.

He also represented his home country at the World Cup of Hockey 2016 and won the gold medal there with the team.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2001/02 Couchiching Terriers OPJHL 46 4th 7th 11 16 - - - - -
2002/03 Brampton Battalion OHL 68 15th 25th 40 14th 11 5 6th 11 6th
2003/04 Minnesota Wild NHL 36 1 5 6th 12 - - - - -
2003/04 Houston Eros AHL 1 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
2004/05 Houston Eros AHL 73 11 16 27 57 5 0 0 0 4th
2005/06 Minnesota Wild NHL 72 4th 12 16 32 - - - - -
2006/07 Minnesota Wild NHL 77 7th 18th 25th 26th 5 0 1 1 14th
2007/08 Minnesota Wild NHL 82 15th 28 43 80 6th 0 2 2 6th
2008/09 Minnesota Wild NHL 59 8th 19th 27 45 - - - - -
2009/10 Minnesota Wild NHL 47 3 17th 20th 32 - - - - -
2010/11 Minnesota Wild NHL 80 17th 29 46 98 - - - - -
2011/12 San Jose Sharks NHL 81 11 26th 37 34 5 1 1 2 4th
2012/13 San Jose Sharks NHL 30th 9 11 20th 20th 11 2 2 4th 8th
2013/14 San Jose Sharks NHL 69 22nd 26th 48 34 7th 2 1 3 23
2014/15 San Jose Sharks NHL 82 17th 43 60 65 - - - - -
2015/16 San Jose Sharks NHL 82 27 48 75 53 24 7th 17th 24 12
2016/17 San Jose Sharks NHL 82 29 47 76 40 6th 0 3 3 6th
2017/18 San Jose Sharks NHL 82 12 55 67 46 10 3 4th 7th 6th
2018/19 San Jose Sharks NHL 82 16 67 83 34 20th 5 11 16 6th
2019/20 San Jose Sharks NHL 70 12 33 45 34 - - - - -
OHL total 68 15th 25th 40 14th 11 5 6th 11 6th
AHL total 74 11 17th 28 59 5 0 0 0 4th
NHL overall 1113 210 484 694 685 94 20th 42 62 85

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2004 Canada U20 World Cup 2nd place, silver 6th 0 6th 6th 20th
2008 Canada WM 2nd place, silver 9 3 6th 9 16
2010 Canada WM 7th place 7th 0 5 5 12
2011 Canada WM 5th place 7th 2 2 4th 8th
2015 Canada WM 1st place, gold 10 2 9 11 4th
2016 Canada World cup 1st place, gold 6th 0 3 3 6th
Juniors overall 6th 0 6th 6th 20th
Men overall 39 7th 25th 32 46

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Commons : Brent Burns  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brent Burns signs 8-year contract with Sharks. nhl.com, November 22, 2016, accessed November 23, 2016 .
Squad of the San Jose Sharks for the 2019-20 season

Goalkeepers: Aaron Dell  | Martin Jones  
defender: Brent Burns  ( A ) | Mario Ferraro  | Tim Heed  | Erik Karlsson  ( A ) | Dalton Prout  | Radim Šimek  | Marc-Édouard Vlasic  
attacker: Logan Couture  ( C ) | Dylan Gambrell  | Tomáš Hertl  ( A ) | Evander Kane  | Melker Karlsson  | Joel Kellman  | Kevin Labanc  | Timo Meier  | Stefan Noesen  | Marcus Soerensen  | Joe Thornton  ( A ) 
Head Coach:  Bob Boughner    Assistant  Coach : Dave Barr  | Steve Spott    General Manager:  Doug Wilson

personal data
SURNAME Burns, Brent
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burns, William Brent (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Barrie , Ontario