Brian Burke has approached a situation with potential international implications the only way he knows how.
Directly.
You would not expect anything less from the longtime hockey executive. The former Toronto Maple Leafs General Manager returned to the Anaheim Ducks fold last season, signing on as a consultant. Burke was the Ducks GM when they won the Stanley Cup in 2007.
He also is director of player personnel for the U.S. Olympic hockey team and has strongly criticized Russia’s “archaic” anti-gay laws. His son Patrick, now the NHL’s director of player safety, was the co-founder of the You Can Play project, and Brian serves on its advisory board.
The organization was founded in honor of the late Brendan Burke, who came out to his family members in 2007. Brendan Burke died in an automobile accident in 2010.