Burke accepts Lester Patrick Award.
As reported in August, Brian Burke is a 2008 winner of the Lester Patrick Award, given annually to service to hockey in the United States.
On Wednesday, he was honored at a ceremony in St. Paul, Minnesota with the hardware. NHL.com did a pretty good story, check it out if you've got a couple minutes.

J.P. Hoornstra has been covering the Anaheim Ducks since 2007. Eight months after the University of Wisconsin won its third NCAA hockey championship, he was born in a frigid Madison winter. He betrayed his blue-blooded beginnings by graduating from UCLA in 2003, and welcomes any and all dialogue on the finer points of hockey.


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