'08-'09 Season Review-Adam Burish

Regular season – B-/C+ ish
Post season – B+

as you said, nails on the PK in the playoffs and at times during the regular season, and blocked a ton of shots throughout the season as well. As long as he’s kept on the 4th line and not taking up more than $750K a year I’m cool with having him around and I’m glad he’s stopped fighting because it wore thin watching him become the resident Hawk punching bag whenever Eager was out/suspended and/or Walker wasn’t dressed.

but I find Bur very entertaining. In his suntimes.com blog, on many of the interviews and BHTV pieces he did, he comes off as very well spoken and doesn’t seem to use as many cliches as most other hockey players do. When his career is all said and done and Eddie O is finally put out to pasture, I think Bur would make an outstanding analyst.

If I’m grading how Burish played in relation to his talent level, I’d say its a B+. The only thing keeping him from getting an A was his inauspicious start to the season.

If I were to grade him on the scale I grade everyone else, I guess he’d be about a C, which isn’t a bad thing. He’s a fourth line player. Great locker room guy, very average player. But an average player who can develop into a very useful special teams player is an important asset for any team to have.

I think hes a great 4th liner with c+ ablity and the heart of a lion.He said his Badger coach told him he could make it in the NHL if he found a niche and became very good at it,cause he wasnt gonna score goals or be a feeder.Think he followed that advice very well.

Burish is a leader and plays hard all the time. he is a spark plug for the team. What he lacks in talent he makes up in heart and intensity. He gives his team energy by being on the ice.

Badger.

Speaking of Badger, I saw Bur at the Madison farmer’s market this past Saturday, but completely didn’t have the stones to stop him to say hi…he looked like he was on a mission, walking fast, alone, looking slightly flustered, although no one else recognized him but me. I didn’t want to be that jackass who interrupted his intense search for fresh farmer’s consumables by saying “Adam Burish! Hey, big fan, go Hawks!”

So, all I could say (whisper actually) was, to my wife, while Bur was standing a couple feet in front of us (before he began a quick march down the street) “That’s Adam Burish!” To which she said, “Do you have anything he could sign?” But I was too busy thinking of something genius to say instead of the aforementioned numskull-cliche-fan sentence to react. And by the time I got the stones to say something, he was long gone. Oh well. Good to know Badger supports the local farmers.