Roger Neilsons Towel Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 On this date, October 31st 1991, Pavel Bure signed his first NHL contract with the Vancouver Canucks. He’d score 34 goals that season and win the Calder Trophy. Quote Selected 113th overall in the 1989 NHL Entry Draftby Vancouver, he began his NHL career in the 1991–92 season, and won the Calder Memorial Trophy as the league's best rookie before leading the NHL in goal-scoring in 1993-94 and helping the Canucks to the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals. After seven seasons the Canucks dealt Bure to the Panthers, where he won back-to-back Rocket Richard Trophies as the league's leading goal-scorer. Bure struggled with knee injuries throughout his career, resulting in his retirement in 2005 as a member of the Rangers, although he had not played since 2003. He averaged better than a point per game in his NHL career (779 points with 437 goals in 702 NHL games) and is fourth all-time in goals per game.[notes 1] After six years of eligibility, Bure was elected into the Hockey Hall of Fame in June 2012. In 2017, an NHL panel named Bure one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players in history.[5] Internationally, Bure competed for the Soviet Unionand Russia. As a member of the Soviet Union, he won two silver medals and a gold in three World Junior Championships, followed by a gold and a silver medal in the 1990 and 1991 World Championships, respectively. After the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991, Bure competed for Russia in two Winter Olympics, claiming silver at the 1998 Games in Nagano as team captain, and bronze at the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City. Following Bure's retirement in 2005, he was named the general manager for Russia's national team at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.[6] Bure was later recognized for his international career as a 2012 inductee in the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Bure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Vintage Canuck- Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 7 minutes ago, Roger Neilson's Towel said: On this date, October 31st 1991, Pavel Bure signed his first NHL contract with the Vancouver Canucks. He’d score 34 goals that season and win the Calder Trophy. 26 years later... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt Nirvanagut Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 Sans Gretzky and Lemieux, nobody in the 90s made young kids want to learn to play hockey more than Pavel Bure. Stud. I still have my fan club membership memorabilia and autographed card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Neilsons Towel Posted November 1, 2017 Author Share Posted November 1, 2017 2 minutes ago, -Vintage Canuck- said: 26 years later... Fingers crossed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Neilsons Towel Posted November 1, 2017 Author Share Posted November 1, 2017 2 minutes ago, zzbottom said: Sans Gretzky and Lemieux, nobody in the 90s made young kids want to learn to play hockey more than Pavel Bure. Stud. I still have my fan club membership memorabilia and autographed card. Couldn’t agree more. Bure was an amazing talent. His speed and hands changed the game at that time. He brought hockey into the spotlight for a whole young generation of kids in the 90’s, especially in BC. I remember watching the games with my Dad when I was 6 years old hoping to get a glimpse of the Russian Rocket and see one of his beautiful goals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlwaysACanuckFan Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 And then Canuck nation was treated to beauty goals like these over the years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Building Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 Hold on. Where we can get the spaghetti skate sumo outfit Bure is wearing in the picture? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tas Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 am I the only one who doesn't remember ever having seen the flying skate with inverted colours like on that wall? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruilin96 Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 I can't imagine how much he would of thrived playing in today's NHL which is all about speed and skill. Another underrated thing people don't often mention about Bure is that he is a big man and he can hit as well. If only the Canucks have someone playing like him currently... man... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckylager Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 Man, he was so exciting to watch. Big Gino on his wing being a beauty... Good era. Real Gud. I'd say Tarasenko is the closest to Bure these days, but my heart of hearts tells me Valamir can't hold a candle to him. Bure is the epitome of "sneaky Russian". Damn he was fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadianRugby Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 Pavel Bure is the #1 reason why I became a hockey and Canuck fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckylager Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 2 hours ago, -Vintage Canuck- said: 26 years later... Well it's a team game and everybody's gotta block shots.. go into corners.. It's a long season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBatch Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 10 hours ago, Roger Neilson's Towel said: On this date, October 31st 1991, Pavel Bure signed his first NHL contract with the Vancouver Canucks. He’d score 34 goals that season and win the Calder Trophy. What is also so absolutely impressive about Bure, and a big reason he's in the HHOF is that he was winning Richard trophies with fifty plus goal seasons in the heart of the dead puck era...if he played in the eightees and stopped in 94 ( the last season of high scoring and the start of the trap), I'd bet he would have given Bossy a run for his money at highest GPG stat. The most exciting player I've ever watched, Gretzky was an alien so he doesn't count. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBatch Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 9 hours ago, ruilin96 said: I can't imagine how much he would of thrived playing in today's NHL which is all about speed and skill. Another underrated thing people don't often mention about Bure is that he is a big man and he can hit as well. If only the Canucks have someone playing like him currently... man... Never thought he was big, at 5 10 , 180lbs, but he was all muscle and did throw his weight around, just as Churla ha ha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ice orca Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 Haha he made some H.H.O.F. d-men look like pylons with that speed and moves. Probably the best at pulling goaltenders 8ft out of the net and sitting them on their ass with those great dekes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanaholic Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 SHOULD HAVE CLONED HIM . . . Only guy who could get your out of your seat whenever he touched the puck . . . WOW! Wonder how our lives would have changed had Gretzky signed here and BURE stayed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocksterh8 Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 Little did we know how he would end up hating Vancouver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
189lb enforcers? Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 Remember the buzz???? I was in grade 12 and in midget hockey. Eventually I had a poster of him on my wall. It was the one where he was really leaning into a slap shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
189lb enforcers? Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 2 hours ago, IBatch said: Never thought he was big, at 5 10 , 180lbs, but he was all muscle and did throw his weight around, just as Churla ha ha. He was as powerful as he was fearless. Comes in and wins the benchpress competition. Didn't he do 22 reps of 200lbs or something? At that size. Crazy. He was a determined dude who changed the Canucks fortunes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Vintage Canuck- Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 On this day in 2013, the Canucks raised Pavel Bure's No. 10 to the rafters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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