Official Site of the Avs · Apr 23, 2015
Bourke Living The Dream
A version of the following story appeared in the 2014-15 third edition of AVALANCHE, the official game magazine of the Colorado Avalanche Hockey Club. For more feature stories, purchase a copy of the magazine during Avs home games at Pepsi Center. All proceeds from game-magazine sales support youth hockey associations in Colorado. If Troy Bourke looked out of place in his first professional game, it didn't seem to show.
Less than a week after concluding his junior career, and two days after signing a professional tryout agreement, Bourke (pronounced BURK) made his pro hockey debut on March 21, 2014 with the Lake Erie Monsters and shined on the larger American Hockey League stage.