Bure isn't a scorer as much as he is a permanent late-night television guest; he is to highlight packages what Terri Garr is to Letterman. After the NHL resumed play for the 2005–06 season, he announced his retirement from professional hockey at a press conference in Moscow on November 1, 2005, citing complications with his chronic knee injuries. He showed a significant improvement in his skills after that. [93], Bure repeated as league scoring champion in 2000–01 with 59 goals, reaching the 50-goal plateau for the fifth and final time in his career, as well as bettering his franchise single-season, goal-scoring record. [60], Due to the 1994–95 NHL lockout, Bure spent single-game stints with Spartak Moscow of the Russian Super League and EV Landshut of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). [68] After the Canucks traded with the Buffalo Sabres for Alexander Mogilny, reuniting the two Russian players, the jersey number was deemed acceptable because Mogilny had used number 89 since defecting to North America in 1989. Between the two teams, he finished the season with 34 goals and 69 points. At the age of 18, he was available to be chosen in the first three rounds of the draft, but to be selected any later, he would have needed to play at least two seasons—with a minimum of 11 games per season—for his elite-level Soviet club, the Central Red Army. Their second child is Lev Bure, who was born in February 2000. [132] During the 1993-94 season, Bure demonstrated his strong playmaking abilities, helping linemate and friend Gino Odjick score a career-high 16 goals in a single season, more than twice the number of goals Odjick would score in any other year separated from Bure, and doubling his career goal totals up to that point in his career. [49][50] He recorded six goals and eight points in five games against the Dallas Stars, and against the Toronto Maple Leafs the following round scored four goals and six points in five games. Less than a month into his Panthers debut, he reinjured his knee, keeping him out for three weeks. [106] However, in a conference call following his selection, Quinn was among the most prominent figures he thanked. [137] Named after their grandfather, Bure's younger brother, Valeri, was also a hockey player, spending 10 years in the NHL. By age 11, he was the best forward in his … Bure retained his father as his personal trainer well into his playing career, before severing ties with him in 1997. In the last game of the regular season, Bure scored a goal to tie Ivan Hlinka's 1981–82 team mark for most points by a rookie. Although Bure was not initially penalized for the play, he was later fined $500 by the league. Bure held out for four days as a result (the amount claimed to be owing was $1.7 million), before the two sides reached an agreement. [145] Bure and Kournikova were reported to have been engaged in 2000 after reporter Andrew Greven took a photo of them together in a Florida restaurant where Bure supposedly asked Kournikova to marry him. [18] Bure turned down a three-year contract extension in August 1991, which resulted in him being left off the roster of the Soviet team for the Canada Cup. He also scored two goals in the game to help Vancouver to a 3–0 win. [95] However, Bure suffered a setback in the pre-season re-injuring his groin. Bure was born in Moscow in 1971 to Vladimir and Tatiana Bure. He played on a line with Fedorov and Mogilny, the first and only time the three of them would play together at the senior level; the line was considered "perhaps the best forward line on earth" at the time. [76], Following the 1997–98 season, Bure told newly appointed general manager Brian Burke that he would not play for the Canucks again, despite still having a year left in his contract worth $8 million. At age 12, his parents separated, and Bure remained with his mother. [137] Bure retained his father as his personal trainer well into his playing career, before severing ties with him in 1997. [144] The two met in 1999 when she was still linked to Bure's former Russian teammate Sergei Fedorov. [154] The court ruled in favour of Bure in November 2005. [113], In 1991, Bure appeared in his third and final World Junior Championships. [16], In his third and final season with the Red Army, Bure tied for the lead in team-scoring with Valeri Kamensky, tallying 46 points. They spoke highly of his creativity as well, recognizing him as "someone who sees in his game a world of possibilities that just never occur to others," praising his "sheer elegance and imagination" and characterizing his hockey sense as "ho-hum brilliance from the most explosive player in the sport". Bure finished with a team-high 16 goals and 31 points in 24 games, second in playoff scoring only to Conn Smythe Trophy winner Brian Leetch. He is not active in any sorts of social media like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. February 8, 1999 – Signed by the Florida Panthers to a five-year, $47.5 million deal. In six games, Bure managed four goals and an assist. Bure presented three of the gold replicas to Russian President Boris Yeltsin, Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and Moscow mayor Yuriy Luzhkov. While Bure admitted to "a lot of disagreements with the Canucks management," he maintained that he "never had any problems with the Canucks fans". In 2017, an NHL panel named Bure one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players in history.[5]. [142], Five days after arriving in North America from Moscow with his father and brother on September 6, 1991, (his mother Tatiana arrived two months later),[9] Bure married an American fashion model, later revealed to be Jayme Bohn, in a civil ceremony. [76] The Canucks retired Bure's 10 jersey on November 2, 2013. He invited me to the game, he invited the whole cast, and I went with Lori Loughlin [who played Aunt Becky] and we sat there and were looking at these two really cute boys – two cute men, I guess – on the ice, and I was like, ‘I want to meet that one, the blonde one,’ which was Val. Bure has a medium body stature standing 5 feet and 10 inches tall weighing 189lbs (86 kg). Fifty replicas of the same watches his ancestors made for the Russian imperial family were made and sold at US$30,000 each. He helped Florida to a fifth-place finish in the Eastern Conference to earn their first post-season berth in three seasons, though they were swept by the eventual Stanley Cup champions, the New Jersey Devils. His 58 goals and 94 points both set franchise records. [20][21] Edmonton Oilers' scout Barry Fraser commented, "From what I've seen of him, Bure can play on any team in the NHL right now... he's quick, real quick, small and very exciting. [129][130] During the 1992 Stanley Cup playoffs, commentator and ex-NHL coach Harry Neale commented, "I like the effort he gives it when he doesn't have the puck. [112] Several months later, in July, Bure took part in his third international tournament of the year at the 1990 Goodwill Games in Seattle. Bure comes from an athletic family; his father Vladimir, who is of Swiss descent (his side of the family originated from Furna, Switzerland), was an Olympic swimmer who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1968, 1972, and 1976 Olympic Games, where he won four medals. The Canucks selected Bure three picks ahead of Detroit's turn. I don't expect him to go really early because it is still too much of a gamble to hope he will defect. After he went eight games without a goal, head coach Tom Renney claimed Bure was not playing with a head injury, but instead had injured his shoulder in a game against the New York Rangers on November 23. [22] While most teams believed he was ineligible, the Canucks' head scout at the time, Mike Penny, discovered Bure had played in additional exhibition and international games to make him an eligible late-round draft choice a year early. She's gone from filming Full House to starring in its reboot, Fuller House, has become a … In the third game of the season, he scored a career-high four goals against the Winnipeg Jets. [4], Early in Bure's career, he was noted for playing a strong two-way game. Despite an apology from the airline company in June 2007, Bure sued British Airways for 20 million rubles. [44] His 110 points stood as the team record until it was broken by Henrik Sedin's 112 points in 2009–10. At the age of 11, his name was in Central Red Army’s junior team. [59] As the story continued well into the next season, Pat Quinn appeared in a segment on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)'s Hockey Night in Canada on March 27, 1995, publicly denying the claims. [notes 2][104], His non-selection in previous years was widely debated in the media. Since he's the only kid still left at home (don't even … In March 1999, he signed a blockbuster deal that sent him to the Florida Panthers. From an article in Russian about the lives of babies born on the same day as Pavel Bure , the relevant section of which translates into English as follows: Translation: Pavel BURE (6), time of birth - 19:35, weight - 3800 g. On the websites of Pavel Bure fan clubs, his place of birth is invariably designated as “Moscow, Russia”.