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Shawn Burr (right) spent the first 11 seasons of his 16-year NHL career with the Red Wings.

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Former Detroit Red Wings forward Shawn Burr has died after suffering a fall at his home, television station WDIV is reporting.

Burr had been battling cancer for three years.

He was 47.

The Red Wings' first-round pick (seventh overall) in the 1984 NHL entry draft, Burr spent all of parts of 11 seasons with Detroit while also playing for Tampa Bay and San Jose during his 16-year NHL career.

In 2010, he was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia and was in remission for several months after undergoing chemotherapy.

But the disease returned and last year he teamed with the Michigan Dental Society and Leukemia and the Lymphoma Society to try and help build up the state's bone marrow registry.

Burr joined the Red Wings fulltime in 1986-87 after scoring 60 goals for Kitchener of the OHL the previous season. His best NHL season was in 1989-90, when he had 24 goals and 32 assists in 76 games.