Hagen Burrows Was Relieved When Tampa Bay Lightning Selected Him At No. 128 At 2024 NHL Draft

hey how’s it going congratulations thank you appreciate it heyen what was going through your mind when you finally heard your name and was called and you were part of the lighting organization yeah I mean it was a really big sense of relief um just to know that like hard work’s paid off in a sense obviously there’s a lot more work to do to do to get to uh where I want to be but just a really cool feeling knowing that all that work and dedication is has kind of paid off for me how much do you know about the lightning organization yeah I it’s funny I I know a good amount um I kind of grew up obviously a wild fan but um one of our best family friends uh from Minnesota moved to Tampa and we’d go and visit and go to lightning games every well I was when I was younger and I was actually there for the the caver uh Jersey uh retirement so um kind of grew up being following the the franchise and and kind of ruin them on when the wild wen’t around so um definitely no good from them you’re going to the University of Denver next year what made you what made Denver the right choice for you yeah I think for me Denver is just um every aspect of it just felt right to me their coaching staff is is next level they’ve got a history of being a winning program and and turning players into pros and I I have a lot of faith and trust in uh the staff and and the program that it’s going to help me get to where where I want to be just a couple of weeks ago you were still planning on heading back to the USL what kind of made that change yeah uh an opportunity kind of opened up for me and um I kind of took that head on and and wanted to kind of challenge myself and and um get to a place where I felt that I could develop even more and be around that such a high level coaching staff and high level players that um and push myself and and make myself better did they ask you uh to do did they call you and say hey you want to go earlier that I work yeah yeah they called me um a little bit ago and just said uh we’ve got an opportunity for you if you want to take it we’d love to have you um but was it hard to adjust cuz your mindset was all over yeah I mean it was it was a quick turnaround but definitely was a super exciting thing that um I’m I’m looking forward to and I was there last week training and going to class again so um it’s it’s an amazing place and I’m super excited for this year think we know that the Minnesota high school hockey is special um can you talk about the unique developmental situation between USL and uh the Minnesota high school hockey we started the year in high school or at Sous City actually right and then ended up going back to high school and finish up the season in s City how about that developmentally how that help you this last year yeah I think it was definitely um kind of a roller coaster every year for me in terms of switching between two teams uh really cared a lot about each of them um I think for high school one of the big things I went into this year wanting to kind of develop from high school is um being a captain and being a leader kind of developing leadership qualities and and kind of turning myself into a bigger voice in the locker room and and being a leader there and I felt that I this year I accomplished that and I was able to take a lot of lessons that um by going back to high school and being in that position then going on City yeah Sous City uh I think for me what I really learned in Sous city was kind of like professionalism like in high school I I would say like I approached the game differently than I did in the USL uh just cuz there’s a lot more pre preparation and you got you got to take care of your body a lot more in the USHL and that’s something I learned a lot this year and uh I’m going to definitely use moving forward

Hagen Burrows felt “a really big sense of relief” after being drafted in the fourth round by the Tampa Bay Lightning at the 2024 NHL Draft.

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