{"id":276135,"date":"2025-11-11T10:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T10:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/276135\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T10:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T10:30:08","slug":"burns-loving-life-on-off-ice-with-avalanche-in-22nd-nhl-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/276135\/","title":{"rendered":"Burns loving life on, off ice with Avalanche in 22nd NHL season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brent Burns<\/a> is still having fun in his 22nd NHL season. That enjoyment is proving to provide a positive influence for the Colorado Avalanche.<\/p>\n

The veteran defenseman has brought levity to their dressing room. He\u2019s still producing too; Burns has eight points (one goal, seven assists) in 16 games while averaging 20:37 of ice time this season, his first with the Avalanche.<\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up in a hockey family; my dad loved the game for a long time and we did a lot of family things around the game, and I just love it,\u201d said Burns, who signed a one-year contract July 2. \u201cI love being around the guys and having so many good laughs every day and just the whole process. I love morning skates and working out and having fun with the guys.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what everybody says they miss when they\u2019re no longer playing, and there\u2019s a reason why. I think you have to have that. You just really have to enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Burns\u2019 play and ability to keep things light has helped the Avalanche (10-1-5) get off to a fast start. They are first in the Central Division entering their game against the Anaheim Ducks (11-3-1) at Ball Arena in Denver on Tuesday (9:30 p.m. ET; HBO MAX, truTV, TNT, SN360).<\/p>\n

He is one of two active players to reach 1,500 games (1,513), along with Washington Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin<\/a> (1,506). Burns has 918 points (262 goals, 656 assists) with the Minnesota Wild, San Jose Sharks, Carolina Hurricanes and the Avalanche.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fire is still there,\u201d Colorado center Nathan MacKinnon<\/a> said. \u201cYou\u2019d never know he\u2019s 40. He still wants to get better. He\u2019s super interesting, he loves to talk about different things. A lot of guys are sick of it by 40, and I don\u2019t how long he\u2019s going to play, but it seems like he\u2019s got lots left in the tank.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been awesome. He\u2019s an awesome player and an awesome teammate. It\u2019s good to have that experience, and he\u2019s a fun guy to have around every day. He\u2019s just a great person and a funny guy. \u2026 At the end of the day you have to be great on the ice as well, and he\u2019s been that too. We\u2019re lucky to have him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brent Burns is still having fun in his 22nd NHL season. That enjoyment is proving to provide a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-276135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276135","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=276135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}