Sept. 16, 2026, 6:47 p.m. ET
The NHL’s most well-known beard is gone.
Effectively, not gone however trimmed to respectability.
Brent Burns, the 41-year-old defenseman who’s getting into his twenty third season within the NHL, confirmed up on the Colorado Avalanche‘s coaching camp on Wednesday, Sept. 16, with a special look.
Gone is the lengthy hair and lengthy bushy beard. It is changed by a trimmed look that makes him seem youthful. His gap-toothed look is gone, too.
The facial hair had been legendary and Burns embraced it by carrying a Chewbacca masks on the 2016 NHL All-Star Recreation abilities competitors in Nashville.
Right here is how Burns appears this week, plus how he seemed final season:
Hey, issues change.
Even Joe Thornton shaved the NHL’s second-best beard as soon as.
Brent Burns can set document this season
Burns is getting into an vital season after he signed a one-year deal to present him a second season with the Avalanche.
He is nonetheless looking for his first Stanley Cup and the Avalanche might be among the many favorites once more this season.
He has skated in 1,007 consecutive video games and wishes 58 video games this season to high Phil Kessel’s ironman document.
Burns, who hasn’t missed a sport since 2013-14, averaged practically 19 minutes a sport and scored 12 targets and 35 factors final season.
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