San Jose Sharks center Joe Pavelski and Adam Burish were teammates and roommates at the University of Wisconsin for two years, living off campus.
"He's got more on me than I have on him but I have a few little aces in my pocket that I'll bring out on him," said Burish back in 2010.
The Badgers are skating on the same side again. San Jose signed Burish, a free agent from the Dallas Stars, to a 4-year deal worth $7.2 million and a $1.8 million cap hit.
It's a slight raise from his $1.3 million last season with Dallas, where he had 19 points in 65 games with 69 PIMs.
Torrey Mitchell left the Sharks' bottom six forwards for Minnesota on Sunday, earning $1.9 million annually over three years.
Burish is a winner and plays with an edge sorely lacking from the Sharks in crunch time. Four years is quite a term — he's actually the only San Jose forward currently signed beyond 2015 — but the money is right as is the pedigree.
And let's face it: Any player that will toss an opponent's glove into the seats and offers a video game apology will fit right in with a team whose MVP is a creepy puppet.
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