Sean Burke is making a difference

It's been a relatively short stint with the Kings, but after months of piss-poor through incompetently average goaltending, veteran Sean Burke is making a huge difference.

Funny thing - he's not doing anything we did not see him do throughout almost twenty years of his NHL career. He stands tall, covers quite a lot of space between the pipes, does not commit too soon to the shooters and clear the rebounds out of the way.

Funnier still - *this* has Kings fans jumping for joy :)

So far Burke has appeared in better part of one game and two full games for Los Angeles and every time out he gave the team a chance to win [even though the Kings have a 1-2 record with him in goal]. First, he almost had a win for his new rebuilding team [LA lost to Phoenix on Luc Robitaille night, when only dehydration cramps held him out in the third period], then he outperformed [well, won against] Roberto Luongo in Vancouver and came just one goal against from at least tying Edmonton on the road last night.

[all game reports pending on weeknights Central European Time later this week]

Right now, he sits at GAA 2.56 and .926 SV%, which has not been seen in the LA-LA land this deep into the season since Kelly Hrudey was around ;). In all likeliness, his bound to lose these numbers rather quickly, but in the meantime, he's given the Kings a double-take of much needed adrenaline.

And a thought of what might have happened this season, had they have only average to decent goaltending all the way.