Garrett Burnett
Garrett Burnett ( born September 23, 1975 in Coquitlam, British Columbia ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey and lacrosse.
Career
Garrett Burnett began his career in 1994 in the Canadian Junior Football League OHL with the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds and also played during his first season of league rival Kitchener Rangers. Ungedraftet he became a professional and played in 1995/96 for a total of five teams in three different lower leagues.
In the following two years he was much talked about in the East Coast Hockey League and the American Hockey League almost exclusively through his tough game. While he rarely scored more than ten points in a season, he collected mostly more than 300 penalty minutes in a year.
In 1998 he was taken by the San Jose Sharks a contract but played two years solely for their AHL farm team, the Kentucky Thoroughblades. There he presented in the 1999/2000 season with 506 penalty minutes in 56 games, a personal best on. His total of 692 penalty minutes are a franchise record. He then moved to the IHL to the Cleveland Lumberjacks, where he spent the 2000/01 season, before the following two years in the United Hockey League with the New Haven Knights and in the AHL with the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks and the Hartford Wolf Pack played.
In the summer of 2003 he received a contract with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the NHL and was the season for NHL squad, completed 39 games and scored one goal and two assists. There were 184 penalty minutes, which he had collected, among other things by 22 fist fights on the ice.
As the NHL season 2004/ 05 failed because of the lockout, played in the UHL for the Danbury Trashers, before he signed a one year contract with the Dallas Stars at the beginning of the 2005/06 season. He came during the entire season in the NHL not used, but played for the farm team of Dallas, the Iowa Stars of the AHL and the Phoenix Roadrunners in the ECHL.
In the summer of 2006 he joined the sport and was awarded a contract with the Arizona Sting of the National Lacrosse League. However, he never completed a league game for the team, but is still in the squad.
At the beginning of the 2006/07 season played Burnett in the unterklassigen Hockey League Ligue Nord - Americaine de Hockey for the Summum - Chiefs de Saint -Jean -sur -Richelieu, before a Eishockeytor a goalkeeper threw in his fourth league game and later in a brawl was involved. Burnett was suspended by the league for the remainder of the season.
On 11 January 2007 it was announced that Burnett was in a coma since December 26, 2006 and was treated in a hospital. Burnett was with friends in a suburb of Vancouver in a bar, where it came to blows with a group. After Burnett and his friends had left the bar, they were attacked by the group and Burnett received several blows to the head. The police investigated, but it was so far not accused. According to Burnett's family, he will bear no lasting damage it and he's already much better. After four months of hospitalization, he sued the two bouncers the bar, which did not intervene, as Burnett was attacked.
Garrett Burnett was in the course of his career put no special emphasis in sports but was for his teams usually as enforcer in use, the leaves flying fists and penalty minutes accumulated. In 469 games in professional hockey, he scored 24 goals and had 30 assists. Is outdone by all but 3,016 penalty minutes.