Alexandre Burrows RUMORS & NEWS

Vancouver Sun "It appears that Canadian tennis star Milos Raonic is ready for a serving showdown with Vancouver Canucks winger Alex Burrows. On Monday, Burrows told The Vancouver Sun he'd love to try and return one of Raonic's bullet serves after watching the big Canadian deliver the goods in Sunday's Davis..." April 10

Vancouver Province "Canucks winger Alex Burrows left Canada's opening game with Slovakia at the World Hockey Championships in Helsinki, Finland on Friday with an apparent head injury. There is obvious concern he suffered a concussion when he fell awkwardly in the second period of the game — which Canada won 3-2 —..." May 05

Vancouver Sun "Barring some last-minute additions, the Presidents' Trophy-winning Vancouver Canucks will only have two players participating in the upcoming world hockey championships. Winger Alex Burrows joined Team Canada on Monday and skated in practice on a line with Corey Perry and Jamie Benn. Fellow..." May 01

Vancouver Province "Alex Burrows is always at the end of the victory celebration line to give his teammates the high-five. But imagine the Vancouver Canucks winger as the last line of defence should Roberto Luongo and Cory Schneider succumb to injury in the same game. "I hope to God that never happens," chuckled..." March 06

Vancouver Sun "It was fantastic competition, but not great hockey. Still, this seems to be the future of the National Hockey League – Thursday's showdown for first-place overall that was won 2-0 by the Vancouver Canucks over the St. Louis Blues on a lucky bounce and an empty-netter. It was fiercely..." March 02

Vancouver Province "After some interesting number-crunching by Scott Cullen of TSN, Alex Burrows turns out to be the fourth-best even-strength goal scorer in the NHL, at least last season. Sidney Crosby led the pack, which isn't surprising, with 1.92 goals for every 60 minutes of even-strength play. Former..." July 20

Boston Globe "Every series this playoff season has spawned a villain. In the Stanley Cup Final, the Canucks' player the Bruins' fans most love to hate is forward Alex Burrows. First there was Bitegate, when Burrows was accused by Bruins center Patrice Bergeron of biting his finger in Game 1. The league took..." June 07

Vancouver Sun "With all that has happened, it is easy to forget how outrageous it is that Alex Burrows made it this far and how hard he had to work for his opportunity. Until you watch him play. His desperation is evident every game, every shift, almost every stride and puck battle. Burrows was never supposed..." June 06

Toronto Star "Each has had moments, each has laboured, each has surged, each has made the difference. The Vancouver Canucks, to be sure, are a team of depth, a team that can lose a good defenceman like Dan Hamhuis to injury in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup final and see Andrew Alberts enter the fray and..." June 06

Vancouver Sun "So, have you read enough about Alex Burrows lately? His parents have. They've been reading, and hearing, about their son the biter, the sneaky-dirty player, the villain of the Vancouver Canucks' Game 1 victory in the Stanley Cup final. Saturday, his dad Rodney called, with the best advice he..." June 05

Toronto Star "Why did Alex Burrows score the overtime winner in last night's 3-2 Canucks win? Because his dad told him to. Turns out Mr. Burrows was tired of listening to how his kid has a pathological biting problem. Which he does. He also has a pathological 'skinning Zdeno Chara alive' problem...." June 05

Vancouver Sun "This time, Alex Burrows really took a bite out of the Boston Bruins. The Vancouver winger scored two goals, including the winner 11 seconds into overtime, and set up another as the Canucks beat the Bruins 3-2 Saturday night to take a commanding 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven Stanley Cup..." June 05

Boston Globe "If you own one of the 2 million to 3 million busted TVs in New England this morning — one of those HD wide-screen numbers with your work boot stuck smack dab in the middle of the screen — chances are the last two words you screamed at the end of last night's Stanley Cup Final broadcast on NBC..." June 05

Vancouver Sun "Love him (Vancouver does) or hate him (most everyone else outside of Pincourt, Que.), Alex Burrows has made himself into one of the National Hockey League's most interesting stories. Not irresistible, mind you. Just interesting. The 30-year-old winger's list of transgressions amounts to a..." June 04

The Globe and Mail "One game into the Stanley Cup finals, and we've got a controversy. Vancouver Canucks winger/pest Alex Burrows is expected to have a hearing with the NHL before Saturday's Game 2 after biting the finger of Boston Bruins centre Patrice at the end of the first period. Burrows received an extra..." June 02

Vancouver Province "They won the opener of the Stanley Cup final, but the Canucks may have lost two key players for Game 2 against the Boston Bruins. Clearly, shut-down defenceman Dan Hamhuis didn't look good leaving the game after injuring himself while hip checking big Bruins winger Milan Lucic four minutes into..." June 02

Vancouver Sun "After nearly bursting the net with a pair of pucks perfectly teed up for him by Henrik Sedin, Vancouver Canucks defenceman Sami Salo humbly asserted Sunday it doesn't matter who plays the point on the power play as long as Sedin is on the ice to feather passes. Like all the great passers in any..." May 23

Vancouver Province "Through the first five games of the Vancouver Canucks' playoff run, Alex Burrows recorded one puny assist, went minus-three and was starting to hear the damning whispers that he isn't a playoff player Then it all changed. Beginning with Game 6 in the opening round series against Chicago,..." May 18

Vancouver Province "Alex Burrows looked like he had a burr under his saddle. Mikael Samuelsson looked steamed. And Alain Vigneault was trying to play that line juggling art-of-deception card again. All this after one double-overtime playoff loss? You could call it panic, or simply label it planning. "I wouldn't..." May 03

Vancouver Province "Sometimes the most obvious solutions are hidden in plain sight. That could be said of Canucks coach Alain Vigneault's decision to take winger Alex Burrows off the Sedins line early in Game 6 of the first-round series with Chicago on Sunday and reunite him with Ryan Kesler. He also moved winger..." April 28

Vancouver Sun "Alex Burrows felt the puck in his glove, dropped it, saw that it was rolling and saw something else. Ice. Free ice. A path to the net. After all that had happened for seven full games, and a little bit more — a goal, earlier, but a plethora of missed chances already this night, then a..." April 27

Vancouver Province "After mostly standing pat for much of this playoff series, the Canucks really made some changes in Game 6. The good ones are something to carry over to Game 7 – where a loss after leading the series 3-0 will go down as the biggest choke job in franchise history. The most glaring one, of..." April 25

Vancouver Sun "Reformed Vancouver Canuck agitators Ryan Kesler and Alex Burrows have been angels in this playoffs series against the Chicago Blackhawks. Kesler has yet to take a penalty while Burrows has one roughing minor, taken in garbage time Tuesday when the 7-2 outcome was beyond all doubt. That's the..." April 21

Vancouver Province "The misconception that a fire hydrant could score 30-plus goals playing alongside the Sedins is a myth that continues to be perpetuated around the NHL, despite all the glaring proof against it. The latest slight to Alex Burrows as some kind of spare tire who isn't really part of the Sedins line..." April 05

Vancouver Province "All season long, they have made a point of preaching that one game was never more important than the next. Whether contender or pretender, the Vancouver Canucks approached the opposition with a businesslike manner, but Tuesday was different. The league's top team needed one point to clinch..." March 30

Vancouver Province "There's no question the Canucks are in a bit of a funk right now (5-5-0 in the last 10). They won Tuesday's game with visiting Columbus mainly on the shoulders of a terrific performance from goaltender Roberto Luongo. But one of the by-products has been the struggles of winger Alex Burrows and..." March 02

Vancouver Sun "It was a dispiriting weekend weather-wise in some parts of the country, but here's something that will make the sky seem blue again — the Monday morning musings and meditations on the world of sports. No one is expecting fireworks from the Vancouver Canucks on Monday and we'll concede teams can..." February 28

Vancouver Sun "Alex Burrows intended all along to play Monday night. His bruised foot wasn't so sure. Unable to skate with teammates Monday morning, the Vancouver Canuck winger passed a CT scan and spent the afternoon getting medical treatment before making it into the lineup for the 3-2 loss to the St. Louis..." February 15