#brian burke

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UNIVERSE PLS RID US OF THE TKUCKFUCKS🤬

Cannot believe bergy, pricey, rinne's big fantabulous hhof weekend will be shared with that disgusting family

Anyway

YIPPEEE BERGY PRICEY RINNE BURKE🎉🙌✨

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2026 Hockey Hall of Fame class includes Bergeron, Price, Rinne, Tkachuk | NHL.com

Curley, Burke will also be inducted in November

"Patrice Bergeron, Carey Price, Pekka Rinne, Keith Tkachuk, Cindy Curley and Brian Burke were named members of the Hockey Hall of Fame Class of 2026."

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from “NHL slow to embrace world of analytics” (2014)

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The Chris Johnston Show - around 50min & 55secs.

Brian Burke waited 24 hours before commenting to see if the NHL would roll back their decision to ban the pride tape. They did not.

Brian Burke told Chris Johnston that they will find the money to pay the fine for any player that decides to wear the tape.

Fuck the NHL. I hope somebody fucking sue you and fuck over all of your fucks. Not the players but the owners, the board of governors and Gary Bettman. Fuck you all.

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This!!!!

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(Brian Burke has) been a staunch ally of the LGBTQ community since (son) Brendan came out to his father in 2007 and was killed in a car accident three years later at age 21.

“A day after the funeral, we had a family meeting,” Burke recalled. “I told his brother and sisters, ‘We can either sit down by the side of the road and hang our heads and mope and mourn or we can march.’ I told them, ‘I’m marching ahead, and so are all of you. We’re going to figure out a way that Brendan’s passing is not forgotten and overlooked.’”

Brendan will be in the thoughts of the Penguins’ president of hockey operations on Saturday afternoon as his new club travels to Buffalo for a nationally televised game agains the Sabres. The teams are co-hosting the NHL’s first joint Pride Game, which aims to celebrate LGBTQ communities by sharing stories of acceptance and hope.

The occasion had been planned long before Burke joined the Penguins’ front office Feb. 9. But it was You Can Play — the social activism campaign to promote inclusion and eradicate homophobia in sports — founded by Burke’s son, Patrick, that has spurred such events around the league since 2012.

Burke is dedicated to the cause and proud of the progress made in combating anti-gay sentiments in hockey. The self-proclaimed “most macho man in the NHL” is vigilant in confronting homophobic action and language. He’s been known to pull aside fellow hockey executives at league meetings when he hears the occasional slip of the tongue.

“I will correct them after the fact,” Burke said. “I’ll tell them, ‘You have to find a different way to say that.’”

He’s marched in Pride parades in Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary and New York, and intends to do the same in Pittsburgh.

“He’s from that blue-collar, 1960s upbringing in Minnesota that I think will resonate in Pittsburgh,” Patrick said. “If there is someone out there of similar age who thinks an old dog can’t learn new tricks or, that ‘Hey, that’s not me, that’s for the younger generation and it doesn’t matter how I feel about these things,’ I hope they look to Brian Burke as an example that you can open your heart to this community.”

Burke said: “I had no inkling that Brendan was gay. I was the last family member he came out to. . . . I said, “are you sure?’ He said, ‘yeah.’ I just reached out and hugged him and said, ‘you’ve given us a million reasons to love you, and this is one of them.’”

Burke believes there are gay players in the NHL today, and that they have been part of pro hockey’s fabric for more than a century.

The day is coming, he said, when there will be openly gay players in the league and they will find a welcoming environment... The Burkes realize there’s plenty of work ahead in cleansing the hockey world of racial and homophobic language.

“Are we at the point we need to be with the LGBTQ community? No, we are not,” Burke said. “These aren’t words you can kick in. These are mud walls that were built up over centuries of ignorance, bias and hate. It will take time, but we’re in a much better place than we were 10, 20, 30 years ago.”

Burke is a big fan of Schitt’s Creek and what it represents.

“That show has a theme of acceptance,” he said. “So many shows try to grab the low-hanging fruit. ‘Let’s do one show where we look friendly to the gay community so we’re on the right side of the ledger.’ It’s like they do with racial issues, tangentially. But for a show to have it as a central theme — acceptance and inclusivity and diversity — it’s remarkable, it’s groundbreaking.

“To us fighting this fight, we’ll take anything. For a show to make that its central theme, we’ll take that and run with it.”

-Excerpts from Burke determined to break through 'mud walls of ignorance, bias and hate', 16 April 2021