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There's a very good chance that Pat Burns will eventually end up in the Hockey Hall of Fame anyway, however a Facebook campaign is picking up steam in its quest to land the former coach in the Hall as soon as possible.

Approximately 13,000 members have joined an online group, the purpose of which is to get the cancer-stricken Burns into the Hall under the "builder" category. Unlike players, who are subjected to a mandatory waiting period of three years after their careers end, builders can enter the Hall at any time.

Burns, who turns 58 on April 4, is suffering from lung cancer but has opted not to undergo chemotherapy, and he says it may not be too long before he passes on.

The Facebook group's intention is to have Burns inducted into the Hall while he is still alive. Burns' contemporaries are in full support of the idea