Alex Burrows looked exhausted, and anxious to hit the showers, after playing a starring role in last Sunday’s win at Canadian Tire Centre and dutifully doing his post-game interviews in both official languages.
But with the Senators about to leave on a road trip, I had to stop him with one more very important question.
Can we talk ball hockey?
“For sure,” said Burrows, his sweaty face lighting up. “I love to talk about ball hockey. I hope you’ve got a lot of time.”
This you might not know about Burrows, the 35-year-old veteran of 827 NHL games: He is one of the best ball hockey players in the world.