{"id":588538,"date":"2026-04-06T06:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/588538\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T06:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:03:08","slug":"burns-honored-for-1000th-consecutive-nhl-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/588538\/","title":{"rendered":"Burns honored for 1,000th consecutive NHL game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burns reached the mind-boggling milestone during Saturday\u2019s game against the Dallas Stars, becoming just the second player in NHL history to reach the achievement.<\/p>\n<p>The only other player to hit that mark, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/phil-kessel-8473548\" title=\"Phil Kessel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phil Kessel<\/a> (who holds the NHL record at 1,064 straight games), recorded a video message for Burns, which played to the fans at Ball Arena before Sunday&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey Burnsie, Phil Kessel here,\u201d he said in the video. \u201cI just want to congratulate you on 1,000 straight games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know how tough that is to do,\u201d Kessel added. \u201cI hope for nothing but the best for you and your teammates for the rest of the year. Go get that Stanley Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Burns reached the mind-boggling milestone during Saturday\u2019s game against the Dallas Stars, becoming just the second player in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-588538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}