# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pat-burns
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:23:41.767Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pat-burns"
name: "Pat Burns"
slug: "pat-burns"
description: "Patrick John Joseph Burns was a National Hockey League head coach. Over 14 seasons between 1988 and 2004, he coached in 1,019 games with the Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins, and New Jersey Devils, and he won the Stanley Cup in 2003 with the Devils. Burns retired in 2005 after being diagnosed with recurring cancer, which eventually claimed his life five years later. Burns won the Jack Adams Award three times, which is the most by a coach in NHL history. In fourteen seasons, he reached the postseason eleven times."
tagline: "Canadian ice hockey coach (1952–2010)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0e/PatBurnsMontreal.png"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CA"
category:
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  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1952-04-04"
deathDate: "2010-11-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump