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
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There was definitely a focus on what we had to do for the obvious reasons. If we lose that game, we all realize we put ourselves in a heck of a bad spot here for the rest of the way. Whereas a win, it doesn't give us everything we need, but it puts us in a position to at least continue to control our own destiny.
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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.
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You never want to settle and be happy with losing. But there are times when you come out of a game and consider yourself a little bit lucky you got anything. Being down 2-1 and the way he was playing with as little time as we had, that is a huge point for us.
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It's always a good feeling. You want to contribute, you want to be a guy your team has confidence in. When you can go out there and do the job, that's why you play.
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I've been lucky to be caught by the right coaches at the right time when I was young who were able to instill in me the value of a professional work ethic. And that was something that I needed. I don't think anybody can push themselves without some help and there were some good lessons along the way. So for me, it was always been a lifestyle because of the coaching and examples that I've had over the years.
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There's room for one guy in the net at a time, and you want to be the guy. I want to be the guy, but if I'm not playing, I know I have another kind of role that I have to perform to contribute to the team.
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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.
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It's three games to one. We've got to win some hockey games. To blame anybody right now, it's too late.
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Especially in the U.S., people liken it to a starting pitcher or a starting quarterback, and hockey's different. You're the starter the night you're playing. The night you're not, you're the backup. I don't think a lot about it. You could be the starter to start the season and then two games into the season you find yourself on the bench and vice versa.
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Pretty cool, huh? The artist did a nice job with it.
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You're not going to shut them down. The only way to keep them from scoring is by having the puck. We have to control the puck, that's our only hope. If they have the puck, they're going to score because they're very good.
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It's a finely tuned machine around here, the way they run camp,
save
If I can make that save it's still 1-0. Right now we're not making the big plays.
practice
Then we just went right into scrimmaging with the practice. It was really intense, very organized.