Brendan Burke traveled to Wednesday night’s Panthers-Islanders game on the Long Island Rail Road, seated next to a guy old enough to be his grandfather and who was about to take his job for the night.
But he could not have been happier about it.
For Burke, 32, the night on which MSG Networks and the Islanders honored Jiggs McDonald, 78, was a reminder of the announcing lineage he joined this season, including the man who filled the job between them, Howie Rose.
“The fact that I am a very small part at the end of a long sentence with those two guys at the front of it is incredible,” Burke said before the game.