Introducing: Brendan Burke

.@NYIslanders fans – welcome the new voice of the team, @BrendanMBurke, who will be the play-by-play announcer. pic.twitter.com/NVQhy9MhfO

— MSG Networks (@MSGNetworks) August 11, 2016 New York Islanders hockey has a new voice.

Brendan Burke, formerly the radio voice of the Utica Comets, has been tapped as Howie Rose’s replacement for Islanders games on MSG Networks. The 32-year-old Burke inherits a seat that’s been occupied by two legendary broadcasters – Rose and Hockey Hall of Famer Jiggs McDonald – for longer than he’s been alive, but he’s ready to make his own mark on the New York Islanders.

“I’m okay with being known as the new Howie Rose for a while,” Burke said. “It’s an incredible honor to be sitting in that booth and being the next guy in line from guys like Jiggs and Howie and I hope to continue that tradition and I hope the fans will love me as much as they’ve loved those guys. This is a dream job for me and the only place I want to be and the only place I want to be in the future. Hopefully this is just the beginning of a very long and great relationship between myself and Islanders fans.”

Burke sounds like a natural, with a deep voice that was destined for a microphone and an audience. Other kids wanted to be on the ice, but for Burke, being in the booth has been a life-long dream.

“I wanted to be a broadcaster long before I had the voice to match it,” Burke said. “I …

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