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Maple Leafs to attend Brendan Burke’s funeral

By Helene Elliott
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In a fitting tribute, the Toronto Maple Leafs will attend the funeral of Brendan Burke, son of general manager Brian Burke, as a team on Tuesday.

Brendan Burke, 21, died Friday of injuries he suffered in a two-car crash on a snowy road in Indiana. He will be buried in Canton, Mass., where he lived when he wasn’t attending Miami University of Ohio.

His passenger, Mark A. Reedy of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., 18, also died in the crash. Reedy, a student at Michigan State, is scheduled to be buried Tuesday in his hometown. The driver of the other car in the crash was not hurt.

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Like the Maple Leafs, the Miami RedHawks pulled off a win in their first game after Burke’s death.

-- Helene Elliott

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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