When I was younger, I always thought Brian Burke was just a cranky old man with an ego the size of Jupiter. I now understand that he's a genius of a cranky old man with an ego the size of Jupiter that he earned by doing things like this and other amazing things. When you earn it, it's yours. 👏
I wouldn't brag about grabbing both of the Bobsey Twins,,now they are on the staff ? really ? ffs all those cup rings and they want more? Kinda greedy . of wait,, sory my bad
@@timmullens9479 pick just 1 girl, and she's still more successful and has more honors and plaques and more money in the bank... its not unfair. You're just a loser, with loser excuses and loser comments... you must be from Edmonton 🤣😂
@@fdti6914 I'm sure you could borrow one of many bridesmaid dresses (you call them awards or trophies )from one of those gals -they were sooo truculant (not) Brian = dumbass
@@onthegrow8403 Why so much attitude? I complimented a video and said I'd love to see more... didn't think that would start an argument. This community is becoming toxic.
Come on man you can't deny they were damn good. Two art Ross trophies, two presidents trophies, and they got the closest you could get to the cup. They were star players, arguably the best and most beloved to ever play for the franchise. That's definitely not nothing
Love this series. And this story never gets old. Imagine if we never got to witness the Sedins playing together as a tandem. This whole thing that Burke pulled off is magic.
I love how you can see the other twin within the shot of their individual player cards. Definitely cannot imagine a world where the twins didn’t play together, not even just in Vancouver, but in any team. Burke’s maneouvers on this draft should be at the level of common knowledge in any sports history I’d say
Was hardly the drafting of the sedins that caused mediocrity in Vancouver. They played above their contracts during the entire time since the salary cap was imposed. Nobody they could have drafted instead that would have remotely been even anywhere near as good
@@jelwy7 pro player, coach, stanley cup gm, varous executive roles, now broadcasting. "Accomlished nothing" not sure what your standards of accomplishment are, maybe you should write a book on your own accomplishments as they must be stellar
I met Brian Burke early on when he joined the canucks. I didn't know who he was, saw the logo on his shirt and asked him about Larionov and Krutov. Gave me a 2 minute response and was very polite and engaging. He is a solid dude.
I never thought about the logistics of how the same team was able to draft both identical twins. The Morris twins in basketball were also drafted one pick apart, but by different teams, and weren't on the same team until a trade 2 years later.
I honestly don’t get critics like you. Burke just said this was the worst draft heading into it so people wanted to move picks which made it easier. In today’s game draft picks are essential to build the core of the team. Every GM has a hit an miss I’ll admit he’s not the best at signing players that handcuffed us and his trades are meh but at the time we hired benning we had nobody in our farm system to build a core around and benning was known for his scouting now we have players like petey, Hughes, podkolzin, I think juolevi could be a solid player he’s had injury issues and a solid goaltender and a future goaltender compared to what we had back then to what we have now benning deserves some credit for his draft picks. Virtanen now didn’t pan out but at the time of the drafted all the fans wanted a home grown kid and that was virtanen now that he didn’t pan out pitchforks are out for benning to be fired I’m tired of fans jumping off right away when something doesn’t pan out
@@pravleenminhas3594 100%. Most "Fans" don't realize that their constant braying about "win now" with the Sedins saddled us with the eriksson contract. We should have been rebuilding. They also soured our relationship with Linden, because that's what he wanted but got shouted down by management that were under pressure from fans.
@@Electricalphil exactly the the fans and ownership group are the worst because we can never go through a solid rebuild and hockey is the toughest to rebuild a team and you don’t know how player will do when drafting a kid that is 18 and assessing his ability to play in the future by looking at his skill set now. Look at Edmonton they have been going through a rebuild and they were gifted multiple #1 overall picks and only a couple of those panned out in our franchise history we didn’t have a single #1 overall yet I believe our future is brighter than Edmonton in the next couple of years. If the Canucks ever draft a kid and just one person doesn’t work out some canucks fan throw a fit like “we should have never drafted this guy what were they thinking”. We treated players like luongo, naslund, ohlund, Kesler like crap in their later years but whenever they make a guest appearance fans go nuts and that’s what pisses me off about “these fans”
@@Electricalphil Give me a break bud. Yes blame the fans, because they made the final decision on who the Canucks signed contracts with. He should've came out and admitted when needed retooling. Would've been hard to swallow, but if he was a good GM he wouldn't pander to the fans and do his job. It's not just Loui's contract it's also Myers, Roussel, Beagle, and Holtby & Virtanen instead Toffoli were all recent bad signing/decisions, it's not just one that's handcuffed us. He's a good scout, no doubt but that does not make him a good GM. He needs to be good at all aspects of the job not just one
@@jejsemin33 I believe virtanen was coming off a good year that year and virtanen is younger where Toffolli is older and didn’t know how much of an impact he would make. The assumption was that virtanen turned it around and toffoli was in the later years of his career obviously hindsight is 20/20 but do you honestly think benning would come out and say we need a rebuild he would’ve been fired had he said that because the owner is a tool and he’s stubborn I’m certain that he was in benning’s ear to sign these players so they could still compete clearly that’s not the case. Of course a GM is supposed to be good at all facets of the position but look at what benning started with and look at what we have now. We have a solid group that we can build around
Not only are these incredible stories and well animated, but I’ve also discovered some great new bands from the songs you guys put in. More of these please.
3:47 "No expansion team has ever picked first overall." This is the 2nd time I've heard Burkie say this. What about the Buffalo Sabres in the 1970 draft when they picked Gilbert Perreault?! 5:35 They had different people do each Sedin's voice? Or were they joking around?
Love how at 2:22 you can see the BROS band warming up, and then their song starts playing a bit later. Little details like this make an already excellent video even better!
Here's a way off topic question: At the beginning of the video you hear a PA announcer in the background talking about players wearing the new Adidas AdiZero jerseys. Anyone know whose voice that is? It sounds a lot like former Dallas Stars PA Bill Oellermann.
I like the fact that Burke regrets that he said Daniel & Henrik Sedin. But really, after all that work getting the picks, Burke can say whatever the hell he wants.
As a very young, ignorant child, I thought the Sedin's were just allowed to be drafted together because they were brothers.
Me too lol
i just laughed so hard at this - league should consider it
i definitely thought that twins at least were allowed to do this lol because one team in the league i grew up watching had twins two different times
Little League Brother rule!
I thought something similar as well, that they are inseparable and won't play on different teams 😂
"Running out of questions here, kid." What a great line. lol
Had to watch this after reading Burke’s Law. Fantastic stuff
LOVE THESE!
This is awesome. Make this a recurring series
Love these.
Greatest deal 'n steal in draft night sports history.
Man I miss these videos :(
Great series. More Burkie stories please.
Loved you book Burkie!
Great video.
When I was younger, I always thought Brian Burke was just a cranky old man with an ego the size of Jupiter. I now understand that he's a genius of a cranky old man with an ego the size of Jupiter that he earned by doing things like this and other amazing things. When you earn it, it's yours. 👏
I was there in the Fleet Center
More please.
it's very funny to imagine jim benning trying to pull off a series of trades like that
At the time when it happened, they were not animated
Are there more of these
My non-swedish wife hates it when I (all too often) also do the pause+short answer in response to her asking me something :-D
Pov: I know the Sedin brother’s 😳
This feature could replace Coach’s corner. Seriously.
Here 23 years to the day.
The greatest twins to never win a cup.
Why does the animator think everyone has an alcoholic nose?
Think you answered your question
Damn that is a bad draft
Danny won an Art Ross and a Lindsay, let’s not s*** on him too much Burkie lol
He didn’t. He stated the truth 🤷♂️
Burkie sold out but he does have the best stories
Sold out?
Ever notice there's a lotta beady-eyed guys in hockey?
Besides the Sedin twins, a pretty weak draft
Zetterberg
@@brianferris7859 yep, a 7th rounder. So pretty weak first round. Zetterberg was definitely a gem
It amounted to NOTHING.
Game 7 loss to Bruins, and zero Stanley cups for Vancouver.
The end.
Lots of good players don't win cups now, they were really good players. Not really Burke's fault, he wasn't around too much longer.
I wouldn't brag about grabbing both of the Bobsey Twins,,now they are on the staff ? really ? ffs all those cup rings and they want more? Kinda greedy . of wait,, sory my bad
And yet ten times more successful in life than Tim Mullens
@@drumdrumjimmmy yea but that would be two girls against 1 man - a false equivalency Mr Greenjeans but thanx fer playin
@@timmullens9479 what a lame comment
@@timmullens9479 pick just 1 girl, and she's still more successful and has more honors and plaques and more money in the bank... its not unfair. You're just a loser, with loser excuses and loser comments... you must be from Edmonton 🤣😂
@@fdti6914 I'm sure you could borrow one of many bridesmaid dresses (you call them awards or trophies )from one of those gals -they were sooo truculant (not) Brian = dumbass
This was awesome. Would love to see more of these
there is a decent back log of them if you havent seen them. We are all hoping for many more
Too bad there’s only been two twin brothers drafted back to back ever you act like there’s 1 million of these different stories LOL
@@onthegrow8403 Not talking about the Sedin's. I'm talking about animated hockey stories.
@@predspete2625 Neither was I who says there’s more stories like this to come LOL you act like it’s going to be a regular thing
@@onthegrow8403 Why so much attitude? I complimented a video and said I'd love to see more... didn't think that would start an argument. This community is becoming toxic.
It amounted to NOTHING.
Game 7 loss to Bruins, and zero Stanley cups for Vancouver.
The end.
Come on man you can't deny they were damn good. Two art Ross trophies, two presidents trophies, and they got the closest you could get to the cup. They were star players, arguably the best and most beloved to ever play for the franchise. That's definitely not nothing
"I'm running out of questions here kid" 🤣🤣🤣
(kraken attacks Burkie's fishing boat)
I did not expect the soundtrack to get so damn FUNKY.
Love this series. And this story never gets old. Imagine if we never got to witness the Sedins playing together as a tandem. This whole thing that Burke pulled off is magic.
For the brothers themselves...& also us fans...it was a dream come true.
Maybe then 1 of them would have actually won a cup
Yeah Brian Burke deserves mad respect for pulling this off.
Imagine the wce, the sedins, and luongod, and rick tocchet as coach. No way they losing!
I love how you can see the other twin within the shot of their individual player cards. Definitely cannot imagine a world where the twins didn’t play together, not even just in Vancouver, but in any team. Burke’s maneouvers on this draft should be at the level of common knowledge in any sports history I’d say
Completely agree. For that move only he should be lauded. Imagine a world where they didn't play together. He did A LOT for hockey on that day.
Keep this a series
Burkie didn't know just how great a gift he was giving to the City of Vancouver and British Columbia.
bullcrap
I could watch Hey Burkie's and Trade Tree's all day long...
This is fantastic. Burkie is a gem
Apparently not, if his decision resulted in decades of toiling in mediocrity for his own team.
Was hardly the drafting of the sedins that caused mediocrity in Vancouver. They played above their contracts during the entire time since the salary cap was imposed. Nobody they could have drafted instead that would have remotely been even anywhere near as good
Burie was always a blowhard who accomplished nothing. This guy had an excuse for everything! Getting the sedums wash his big achievement.
@@jelwy7 pro player, coach, stanley cup gm, varous executive roles, now broadcasting. "Accomlished nothing" not sure what your standards of accomplishment are, maybe you should write a book on your own accomplishments as they must be stellar
@@MichaelC-no8dx what has he ever won? This dude is the picture of arrogance. Defending the Todd Bedtuzzi assault was disgusting.
The Sedin Twin draft was Burke's greatest moment ever and I don't care what anyone says about Brian Burke but guy is a gem!
I met Brian Burke early on when he joined the canucks. I didn't know who he was, saw the logo on his shirt and asked him about Larionov and Krutov. Gave me a 2 minute response and was very polite and engaging. He is a solid dude.
As a hawks fan I love this series lol.
As a pens fan same burkie is a legend and his stories just keep getting better and better
@@SD_BRFC1997 As a Wings fan you both can suck it!!
lol But no really this is a great series.
@@moappleseider1699 it’s one thing most nhl fans can agree on wether you like him or not burkie has some awesome stories
@@SD_BRFC1997 Absolutely. We need this to blow up so they keep making them.
Marc Andre fleury is a Blackhawk
You might recognise their home team/town Modo Örnsköldsvik from players like Peter Forsberg, Markus Näslund, and Victor Hedman
The crowning achievement of Burke's career and one of the best draft day trades (or series of trades) in NHL history.
Imagine having the Niedermayers and luongod!
Season end!! Noooo. Can't wait for the next season of this
I never thought about the logistics of how the same team was able to draft both identical twins. The Morris twins in basketball were also drafted one pick apart, but by different teams, and weren't on the same team until a trade 2 years later.
Same with Markieff and Marcus Morris in the 2011 NBA draft. Picks 13 & 14 overall.
@@justinanderson3241 that's literally what they just said lol
Really love these, was afraid they'd stop after Burke got on with a team
I love this burkie videos, can literally watch them over and over.
after careful consideration, I love this Hey Burkie stuff. Man is a gem.
I hope Jeff and Burkie continue this amazing series. My kids love them, learning hockey history in the coolest way.
So Atlanta traded a Sedin for the guy who’d end up the most famous missed empty net highlight of all time lol
Genius maneuvering. Jim Benning could never.
I honestly don’t get critics like you. Burke just said this was the worst draft heading into it so people wanted to move picks which made it easier. In today’s game draft picks are essential to build the core of the team. Every GM has a hit an miss I’ll admit he’s not the best at signing players that handcuffed us and his trades are meh but at the time we hired benning we had nobody in our farm system to build a core around and benning was known for his scouting now we have players like petey, Hughes, podkolzin, I think juolevi could be a solid player he’s had injury issues and a solid goaltender and a future goaltender compared to what we had back then to what we have now benning deserves some credit for his draft picks. Virtanen now didn’t pan out but at the time of the drafted all the fans wanted a home grown kid and that was virtanen now that he didn’t pan out pitchforks are out for benning to be fired I’m tired of fans jumping off right away when something doesn’t pan out
@@pravleenminhas3594 100%. Most "Fans" don't realize that their constant braying about "win now" with the Sedins saddled us with the eriksson contract. We should have been rebuilding. They also soured our relationship with Linden, because that's what he wanted but got shouted down by management that were under pressure from fans.
@@Electricalphil exactly the the fans and ownership group are the worst because we can never go through a solid rebuild and hockey is the toughest to rebuild a team and you don’t know how player will do when drafting a kid that is 18 and assessing his ability to play in the future by looking at his skill set now. Look at Edmonton they have been going through a rebuild and they were gifted multiple #1 overall picks and only a couple of those panned out in our franchise history we didn’t have a single #1 overall yet I believe our future is brighter than Edmonton in the next couple of years. If the Canucks ever draft a kid and just one person doesn’t work out some canucks fan throw a fit like “we should have never drafted this guy what were they thinking”. We treated players like luongo, naslund, ohlund, Kesler like crap in their later years but whenever they make a guest appearance fans go nuts and that’s what pisses me off about “these fans”
@@Electricalphil Give me a break bud. Yes blame the fans, because they made the final decision on who the Canucks signed contracts with. He should've came out and admitted when needed retooling. Would've been hard to swallow, but if he was a good GM he wouldn't pander to the fans and do his job. It's not just Loui's contract it's also Myers, Roussel, Beagle, and Holtby & Virtanen instead Toffoli were all recent bad signing/decisions, it's not just one that's handcuffed us. He's a good scout, no doubt but that does not make him a good GM. He needs to be good at all aspects of the job not just one
@@jejsemin33 I believe virtanen was coming off a good year that year and virtanen is younger where Toffolli is older and didn’t know how much of an impact he would make. The assumption was that virtanen turned it around and toffoli was in the later years of his career obviously hindsight is 20/20 but do you honestly think benning would come out and say we need a rebuild he would’ve been fired had he said that because the owner is a tool and he’s stubborn I’m certain that he was in benning’s ear to sign these players so they could still compete clearly that’s not the case. Of course a GM is supposed to be good at all facets of the position but look at what benning started with and look at what we have now. We have a solid group that we can build around
This was awesome! You guys gotta do Burkie interviewing Yakupov during the draft hahah
Perhaps the best draft the canucks have ever had
The attention to detail in the animating is impressive!
I used to listen to Burkie's weekly radio appearance on Dan Russell's Sportstalk show in Vancouver in the 80's. I love listening to his stories.
So basically Ted turner was the reason Vancouver scored the twins that is awesome lol
The series content's good, and honestly, I quite enjoy the art style.
Not only are these incredible stories and well animated, but I’ve also discovered some great new bands from the songs you guys put in. More of these please.
"We're in trouble if they jump the twins"
“Don’t push me”
@@MajorCanada it’s understandable
@@justin.post99 Doesn't want to be known as a soundbite
@@sneakyninjaedit Everybody wants to win
This is some of the best content put out by Sportsnet. Please do more episodes next season!
Dang! This might be the best episode of Hey Burkie! Great to hear of the legendary draft moment straight from the source!
F in the chat for the Atlanta Thrashers logo
3:47 "No expansion team has ever picked first overall."
This is the 2nd time I've heard Burkie say this. What about the Buffalo Sabres in the 1970 draft when they picked Gilbert Perreault?!
5:35 They had different people do each Sedin's voice? Or were they joking around?
Yup and the Tampa Bay Lightning also picked 1st in 1992. Clear oversight on his part.
@@kulba21 Oh, that's right!
Burke twisting the knife into Neil Smith and every Rangers fan a bit more when speaking of Pavel Brendl.
Love how at 2:22 you can see the BROS band warming up, and then their song starts playing a bit later. Little details like this make an already excellent video even better!
Do you want to be the star of the Draft? 🤣
Here's a way off topic question: At the beginning of the video you hear a PA announcer in the background talking about players wearing the new Adidas AdiZero jerseys. Anyone know whose voice that is? It sounds a lot like former Dallas Stars PA Bill Oellermann.
great pull!
I like the fact that Burke regrets that he said Daniel & Henrik Sedin.
But really, after all that work getting the picks, Burke can say whatever the hell he wants.
"I'm getting fired for sure - I just traded Bryan McCabe and a 1st for Pavel Brendl." 🤣
I love that EJ, Chuck and Kenny are with Ted Turner in the table :D
zetterberg went in '99, 7th round 210 overall
And datsyuk went 171st overall. Talk about great scouting.
Lol
Did you all know Brian Burke made the sedin deal? He hasn’t mentioned it before and exactly how it happened.
Antarctica
These guys defy math. 1 + 1 should equal 2. These bros together wouldn't be the same players on their own. Still superstars on their own.
Did you see who's on the 1999 Swedish World Championship team? One of the best names in hockey . . . Per Djoos!
Almost thought I got Rick rolled by the description .
Amazing video crazy how the twins were drafted in Boston and lost to the bruins in the finals… game 7…
Priceless!
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Beautiful story! Top Notch!
Idc if burkie is burke’s nickname and burr is burrows nn.
One time in 2007 in practice Kevin called Alex “burk”
Antarctica has to be a joke, right? He didn't really think they played Antarctica in hockey, right?
Thumbnail is god awful...ohhh, that's the actual art style. Yikes.
all these turds ruined the Canucks for that time. Good riddance! I just stopped in to share lol
BurkeTales. Make it so.
I really could watch these for HOURS!!! I'm just left wanting more. Well guess I'll rewatch all the other ones 😅.
Love the animation style
Spitting chickletts do this as well. Kinda seems like a rip off here with the cartoon stuff
I was actually at the "Fleet center" for this draft. It was rather boring.
Cool
for the love of everything holy, keep making these!
I could listen to this story so many times
So good these are still going on despite Burke now with the Penguins.
I know Burke’s with the Penguins now, but I would love another season of #heyburkie!!
Henrik Zetterberg was taken at 210....................................................
3:47 wow a cameo of the Inside the NBA boys...
Man I love these shorts with Birkie! keep them coming!
Also can you guys release a 15-30 min compilation of these! they are so good!
Best Canucks ever!
Rocket is third 😀