SAN JOSE — How good do you have to be before people start looking past your rock-star hair, your hillbilly beard, your eye-popping suits, your wild tattoos, your exotic pets and your goofy quotes and focusing on you as a hockey player?
Brent Burns good.
He might look like a cross between one of the guys from Duck Dynasty, Don Cherry, Motley Crue and a young, toothless Bobby Clarke, but the only attention he’s getting around the NHL these days is for being one of the most unique and talented players to ever play the game.
Drafted 20th overall, as a forward, then switching positions to become one of the most dominant defencemen in the game?