{"id":206405,"date":"2025-10-12T01:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T01:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/206405\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T01:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T01:32:07","slug":"avalanches-brent-burns-plays-1500th-nhl-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/206405\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche\u2019s Brent Burns plays 1,500th NHL game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Brent Burns made NHL history Saturday night, playing in his 1,500th career game as the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/colorado-avalanche\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a> hosted the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/dallas-stars\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Stars<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Burns, 40, becomes the 23rd player in NHL history to reach the 1,500-game mark and just the eighth defender to do so. Going into Saturday night, Burns has compiled 261 goals, 649 assists and 910 points, putting him ninth on the all-time goals list among defenseman, 14th in assists and 12th for points. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Burns also has the longest active streak of consecutive games played with 927, having last missed a game in November 2013. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">&#8220;I think it&#8217;s a lot of luck. It&#8217;s definitely timing of different things that have happened,&#8221; Burns told Boulding. &#8220;You hear guys say it all the time, but you&#8217;re pretty lucky to have great people that take care of you and get you through the 2 1\/2 hours you\u2019ve got to get through. And a lot of times it&#8217;s just been very lucky with different schedule breaks and when different things have happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Taken with the No. 20 overall pick in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft, Burns has played with the Avalanche, Sharks, <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/minnesota-wild\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Wild<\/a> and <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/carolina-hurricanes\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brent Burns made NHL history Saturday night, playing in his 1,500th career game as the Colorado Avalanche hosted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-206405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}