| Pat Burns |
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| Regular Season Statistics with the Franchise |
By the time Burnsie made it to the Devils, he had a reputation of being a... I guess demanding coach... Pun alert!
You could say that what he said to his team was the law. (And being that he was a former cop in Hull... now
you get the pun.)
He was a 3-time Jack Adams winner for Coach of the Year, but he was missing one HUGE piece of hardware,
and he would lead the Devils to that in 2003.
A real unfortunate turn of events came at the tail end of the lockout. He was diagnosed with cancer for a second
time, and opted to step down as coach of the Devils. He still acted as a consultant for the team, but for the most
part, he had spent most of his days recouping down at his home in Florida.
He was doing quite well for a while there until another form of cancer was diagnosed, a more terminal kind this
time. (I forget offhand where in his body, though.) He would spend his last days in Sherbrooke, close to his
family.
Construction has already begun on an arena in Stanstead that will bear his name. He said of it "I probably won't
see the project to the end, but let's hope I'm looking down on it and see a young Wayne Gretzky or Mario
Lemieux" skating on the rink."
You could say that what he said to his team was the law. (And being that he was a former cop in Hull... now
you get the pun.)
He was a 3-time Jack Adams winner for Coach of the Year, but he was missing one HUGE piece of hardware,
and he would lead the Devils to that in 2003.
A real unfortunate turn of events came at the tail end of the lockout. He was diagnosed with cancer for a second
time, and opted to step down as coach of the Devils. He still acted as a consultant for the team, but for the most
part, he had spent most of his days recouping down at his home in Florida.
He was doing quite well for a while there until another form of cancer was diagnosed, a more terminal kind this
time. (I forget offhand where in his body, though.) He would spend his last days in Sherbrooke, close to his
family.
Construction has already begun on an arena in Stanstead that will bear his name. He said of it "I probably won't
see the project to the end, but let's hope I'm looking down on it and see a young Wayne Gretzky or Mario
Lemieux" skating on the rink."
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| Playoff Statistics with the Franchise |
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| Patrick Burns Born: 4.4.52 Montreal, Quebec Died: 11.19.10 Sherbrooke, Quebec |
