Burns, Pat
Date of Birth:
April 4, 1952
Place of birth:
St.-Henri, Montreal, Quebec
Date of Death:
November 19, 2010
Place of death:
Maison Aube-Lumière, Sherbrooke, Quebec
Cause of death:
colon cancer which eventually spread to his lungs
Pat Burns was an NHL coach from 1988 until 2004. He coached Montreal, Toronto, Boston and New Jersey. he was the only man voted the National Hockey League's coach of the year three times (1989, 1993 and 1998).
Burns battled colon and liver cancer in 2004 and 2005, and hoped he had beaten the disease, but in January 2009 doctors discovered it had spread to his lungs.
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Interment Info
The funeral service for the late Pat Burns will be held Monday, Nov. 29 at 2:30 pm at Montreal's Mary Queen of the World Cathedral, 1085 rue de la Cathédrale. Burns died at the hospice Maison Aube-Lumière (220 Kennedy St. N., Sherbrooke, J1E 2E7) He was cremated and his remains were put into an urn shaped like the Stanley Cup. It is not known publicly where the urn resides.
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