Sean Burke
Sean Burke
Sean Burkeis a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey Leaguefor the New Jersey Devils, Hartford Whalers, Carolina Hurricanes, Vancouver Canucks, Philadelphia Flyers, Florida Panthers, Phoenix Coyotes, Tampa Bay Lightning and Los Angeles Kings. Burke was born in Windsor, Ontario, but grew up in Toronto, Ontario...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth29 January 1967
compete competition everybody far fun harder role stuff wants
Everybody wants to play. It's fun when you are playing, and when you're not, you have to find a role and find some way to contribute. As far as competition goes, you compete every day with yourself probably harder than anybody, so the other stuff is just part of it.
case enthusiasm fun games hanging key overall played saves sit sound team three total watch
It's been a total team effort, ... In the three games I've had to make some saves at key times, but overall we've played very solid. It's actually fun to sit back there and watch our team. We've played with a lot of enthusiasm and speed, and we've played pretty sound all over the ice. It hasn't been a case of us hanging on, we've played pretty strong.
boards buildings dull fans feeling funny good liked loud playing puck seems
Fans are loud in here. It's a good feeling in here. Some buildings it seems dull or whatever. The boards are funny in some other buildings, you never know how the puck is going to bounce. Here, though, they're pretty true. ... I've always liked playing in Tampa. Very comfortable playing here.
happening
It's not going to end up happening with Pittsburgh,
behind nice night opportunity stuff tonight
Every night you have a new opportunity and tonight was nice just to put some of that other stuff behind us.
game guy moved reality wants
I like being settled, ... I'm not a guy that wants to get moved around, but it is the reality of the game right now.
few hope ice seeing start week
I hope to go on the ice a few times with my son. I'll do some conditioning, but if you're away from seeing pucks for a week or so, you'll start to have some rust.
focus next perfect plan
I haven't been in a shootout in a long time, so my plan was just to focus on the puck. On Mats' play, I didn't give him a lot. On the next one, if he was going to score, he was going to have to make the perfect shot.
areas bad confident contagious fighting good guy hard starting struggling team
Individually we're all struggling confidence-wise. It's hard for your team to be confident when you don't have a lot of individuals who are confident. We're fighting it in a lot of areas of our game. It's up to each guy to find his game, starting with the goaltenders out. And that'll be as contagious in a good way as this is contagious right now in a bad way.
bit goals nice sound though
It was nice the way we did it getting some goals in the first period. Even though we let them in a little bit in the second, we buckled down in the third. So, overall, it was a great, sound game.
changes happen last stock team whatever year
No more this year than they have the last four, ... It's the same every year. I don't really put a lot of stock in it right now. Whatever is going to happen is a day-to-day thing in an organization like ours. We're a young team and if we are winning, things will be good. But if we're not, changes will probably be made. It's all part of the business.
games hand instead losing win
It's very, very frustrating but on the other hand we have to find a way to win those one-goal games instead of losing them.
ask cup defending deserve games job mean might number row sit situation stanley stroke trying whoever
That might mean you play a number of games in a row or that you sit out a number of games in a row. I don't think this is going be a situation of him trying to stroke any egos. It's a Stanley Cup defending team, and whoever can get the job done is going to play. That's all you can ask for as an athlete, is the opportunity, and if you deserve to play you play.
came seem sit wait
They came out strong. They didn't seem to sit back and wait and see what was going to happen.