SAN JOSE – There aren’t too many players out there that can bounce back from having the flu and get on the score sheet. Sharks defenseman Brent Burns is one of the few that can.
“He was laid up all day yesterday and today, and showed up and played I don’t know how many minutes,” Sharks’ bench boss Peter DeBoer said Sunday after No. 88 set up a third-period marker in Team Teal’s 5-2 win over the Chicago Blackhawks. “He’s a hard guy to keep off the ice. We went in with the plan of limiting him a little bit but that’s hard to do.