# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charlie-burns
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:15:57.745Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charlie-burns"
name: "Charlie Burns"
slug: "charlie-burns"
description: "Charles Frederick Burns was an American-born Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played 749 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins, Oakland Seals, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Minnesota North Stars between 1958 and 1973. He later worked as the head coach of Minnesota in both 1970 and 1974–75. Burns was mainly known for being an excellent skater, playmaker and defensive player who performed checking and penalty-killing. His trademark was the heavily padded helmet that he was forced to wear after suffering a serious head injury while playing junior hockey in 1954–55."
tagline: "American-born Canadian ice hockey player (1936–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1958_Topps_Charlie_Burns_(cropped).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1936-02-14"
deathDate: "2021-11-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.42
  momentum:             0.5294117647058824
  historical:           5.273110666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Burns"
    title: "Charlie Burns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3_(%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A8_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%83%D9%8A_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AF)"
    title: "تشارلي بورنس (لاعب هوكي الجليد)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3_(%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A8_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%83%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AF)"
    title: "تشارلى بورنس (لاعب هوكى الجليد)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%96_%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%81"
    title: "Чарлі Бернс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Burns"
    title: "Charlie Burns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Burns"
    title: "Charlie Burns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q860275"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump