My 3 favorite Brendan Burke moments as NY Islanders play-by-play announcer

Earlier this week, media columnist Neil Best reported in Newsday that MSG Networks, the home of the New York Islanders and stand-out play-by-play broadcaster Brendan Burke, had reached a new agreement that would return Burke to the broadcast booth for a ninth season on Long Island.

Selected to succeed Howie Rose after the 2015-16 season, Burke quickly went from a mostly unknown AHL announcer to a central figure in Islanders fandom, with broadcasting talent that matched his passion for the game, sense of humor, and uncanny ability to capture the moment.

Islanders' fans love their team, and they love their broadcast booth, with Burke, colorful color-analyst Butch Goring, Shannon Hogan, and Thomas Hickey, among others, that help produce the post-game as well as during intermission. It has a family-type feel that compliments the local, community-type feel that has always surrounded the organization.

Burke is already a national talent, having called playoff games for the NHL on TNT in recent seasons, often doing double-duty in the first round when the Isles qualify for the playoffs. He's on a short list of broadcasters that you can one day expect to be the voice of the NHL, much in the way Doc Emrick emerged after years of broadcasting games for the New Jersey Devils.

We don't know what's in Burke's long-term future, but he'll be back next season and hopefully for the foreseeable future as his family continues to grow up on Long Island. Maybe there's eventually a time that we'll have to more regularly share him with the rest of NHL fans, but for now, he's the voice of the Islanders and we're lucky to have him.

Here are three of our favorite Brendan Burke moments in his first eight seasons calling seasons for the Islanders: