{"id":541342,"date":"2026-04-05T02:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/541342\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T02:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:38:16","slug":"brent-burns-makes-an-admission-about-the-physical-toll-of-his-nhl-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/541342\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent Burns makes an admission about the physical toll of his NHL streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brent Burns<\/a> just did something special that may not be replicated for a long time.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, the 41-year-old Colorado Avalanche<\/a> blueliner Burns did not just play in his 1,572nd game in the NHL but also the 1,000th in a row, as the Avs blanked the Dallas Stars<\/a>, 2-0, at American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas.<\/p>\n

To play that many games consecutively in a physically punishing sport and in the best hockey league on the planet is simply a remarkable feat for Burns.<\/p>\n

The streak heavily taxed his body, which he knows he\u2019ll continue to deal with even after his playing days are over.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy wife sometimes gets mad at me about that. She says, \u2018I got to live with you for a long time.\u2019 So yeah, I\u2019m gonna pay for some of this later, that\u2019s for sure,\u201d Burns, who signed a 1-year deal with Colorado in 2025, said on Friday, via DNVR Avalanche<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Burns logged 18:15 of ice time against the Stars, recording 2 shots on goal with 1 blocked shot and 1 hit.<\/p>\n

For all his games played and individual accolades, one glaring piece is still missing from Burns\u2019 resume, and it\u2019s none other than a Stanley Cup title.<\/p>\n

Playing for the Avalanche, however, gives him a strong chance to finally raise the Cup, with Colorado already clinching a playoff spot and on track to secure the No. 1 overall seed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brent Burns just did something special that may not be replicated for a long time. On Saturday, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,192,144,5277,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-541342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-avalanche","8":"tag-avalanche","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-colorado-avalanche","11":"tag-coloradoavalanche","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116349786263216079","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}