His March scoring burst was just one point shy of Stan Smyl's point March in for the most productive month by a Canucks player.
He recorded 49 goals in the club's final 51 games, and contributed to In the seventh game of the opening round series against the Calgary Flames, Pavel scored one of the most significant and well-known goals in Canucks' history.
After receiving a breakaway pass from defenceman Jeff Brown, he deked and scored on Flames' goalie Mike Vernon in the second overtime to win the series.
In game two of the second round against the Dallas Stars, Pavel knocked enforcer Shane Churla to the ice with an elbow to the jaw. He also scored two goals in the game to help Vancouver to a 3—0 win.
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. Pavel 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.
His points total also remained the highest by any Russian player until Evgeni Malkin of the Pittsburgh Penguins recorded 36 in The deal was reported to have been signed before game three of the Stanley Cup Finals against New York.
It also included his marketing rights and put his father, Vladimir, on the team payroll as a fitness and marketing consultant. In fact, Bure and the Canucks had entered into contract negotiations at the beginning of the —94 season, although two years remained in his original deal.
Neither side could come to an initial agreement; one of the major factors was the Canucks' demands for the contract to be in Canadian dollars on account of the American exchange rate.
Numerous accusations were made in the media during the Canucks' playoff run that Bure threatened not to play if a contract could not be agreed upon. The article was followed by two additional claims in the following two days in the Vancouver-based newspaper The Province and Toronto Sun. He joined a team of Russian NHL players organized by Slava Fetisov that returned to Russia to play a five-game charity tour against local clubs.
When the NHL Players Association NHLPA and owners came to an agreement on January 12, , NHL play was set to resume; however, there were unresolved contract issues, as Salcer claimed the Canucks promised they would pay Bure's full salary, despite the lockout, which cancelled nearly half of the —95 season.
The Canucks would put the disputed amount in escrow and would continue discussions. He soon reported to Vancouver and went on to tally 43 points in 44 games of the shortened season.
In the playoffs, he set franchise records for most goals and points in a series with seven and 12 respectively in a seven-game series victory against the St. However, the Canucks failed to defend their Clarence Campbell Conference championship title, being swept by the Chicago Blackhawks in the second round. The Canucks' elimination in marked the last time Bure appeared in the post-season with the club.
He finished with a career playoff total of 66 points with the Canucks, including 34 goals, which remained the highest club total until Linden tied the mark in At the start of the —96 season, Pavel changed his jersey number from 10 to The switch commemorated September 6, the day on which he first landed in North America from Moscow—9th month, 6th day. He had originally asked to wear the number when he first joined the Canucks, but was not permitted to do so by head coach Pat Quinn, who did not approve of high jersey numbers.
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 Early in the season, Bure sustained the first of several serious knee injuries during his career.
On November 9, , in a game against the Chicago Blackhawks, Bure was grabbed around the head by defenceman Steve Smith while approaching the end boards. Falling to the ice, he caught his skate against the boards, tearing the anterior cruciate ligament ACL in his right knee.
Bure returned to the Canucks' lineup with his knee fully recovered in the —97 season. In the season opener against the Flames on October 5, , Bure was pushed into the boards head-first. 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 With under a month left in the season, he received another hit, during a game against the Avalanche on March 3, Bure left the game and did not return for the remainder of the season.
Afterwards, he admitted he was playing with a neck injury, having sustained whiplash from the first game against Calgary, but did not want to take himself out of the lineup after missing 62 games the previous season.
In a interview, Bure admitted having sustained a head injury on the initial hit against Calgary and that "he should not have played through it". In the off-season, the Canucks made another significant move, signing Rangers' captain Mark Messier during free agency on July 26, The Canucks opened the season with two games against the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in Tokyo an event organized by the league to market hockey for the upcoming Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
After two injury-plagued seasons with the number 96 on his jersey, Bure switched back to his familiar number 10, explaining: "I'm not superstitious, but the last two seasons have been bad memories. Although the Canucks missed the playoffs for the second straight year, he returned to his previous form in —98, scoring 51 goals for his first goal season since —94, and third overall.
Pavel later recalled that with the Canucks out of playoff contention with a handful of games left, head coach Mike Keenan told him he could play as much as he wanted to reach the milestone.
Scoring 50 goals was also implicit in a contract bonus for Bure. He then went public with the declaration, stating he intended to leave the club for "personal reasons". Pavel did not report to the club the following season. Instead, he returned to his hometown Moscow to practise with his former Central Red Army club.
After the trade was completed, he explained that he felt alienated from Canucks' management after arriving in North America having defected from Russia. He claimed he had been in Los Angeles for two weeks before any Canucks' representative came to see him, as well as several bitter contract negotiations—particularly those of Pavel also claimed that someone within the Canucks' management planted the constant allegations that he threatened not to play during the playoff run.
Bure's agent at the time, Ron Salcer, also believed the story. Meeting the Panthers in New York for a game against the Islanders, Pavel debuted with his new club on January 20, In his first six games with the club, he scored eight goals and three assists for eleven points. Less than a month into his Panthers debut, he reinjured his knee, keeping him out for three weeks. Another injury ended Bure's season after just 11 games with Florida, though he scored 13 goals and three assists in that time.
In his first full season as a Panther, Pavel led the league in goal-scoring to capture his first of two consecutive Rocket Richard Trophies with a goal season. It marked the second time Bure led the league in goal scoring, but his first Rocket Richard Trophy as the award had been introduced the previous season. In addition to having reached the goal mark in his career five times and the goal mark twice, his.
Bure comes from an athletic family; his father Vladimir, whose lineage is of German ancestry his side of the family originated from Furna , Switzerland [] was an Olympic swimmer who competed for the Soviet Union in the , , and Olympic Games. He won four medals, including a bronze medal for the metre race in the Games, in which he lost the gold medal by half a second to American swimming legend Mark Spitz.
The two siblings played with each other briefly as members of the Florida Panthers , as well as on the Russian national team. In addition to athleticism, nobility ran in the family.
Bure's family made precious watches for the tsars from —; as craftspersons of the imperial family, they were granted noble status.
Shortly after arriving in North America from Moscow with his father and brother on September 6, his mother Tatiana arrived two months later , [7] Bure married an American fashion model in a civil ceremony five days later on September Although his wife's full name was not released at the time, it was later revealed to be Jayme Bohn.
The marriage was set up by Bure's agents as a preventative measure against deportation in the event that he and the Canucks could not come to terms with a contract. Bure and Bohn were quickly divorced the following summer and Bohn went on to become a costume designer in the film and television industry. After being linked to girlfriend Dahn Bryan, a model and actress, early in his NHL career, [] Bure shared a relationship with tennis star and fellow Russian Anna Kournikova.
The two met in when Kournikova was still linked to Bure's former Russian teammate Sergei Fedorov. As the story made headlines in Russia, where they were both heavily followed in the media as celebrities, Bure and Kournikova both denied any engagement. Kournikova, 10 years younger than Bure, was 18 years old at the time. Despite no longer being linked with each other, Bure and Kounikova continued to controversially make the news after their relationship ended. In , Bure sued Russian newspaper the eXile for publishing an article stating that he broke up with Kournikova on account of her having two vaginas.
Furthermore, the eXile was obligated to print another article refuting the previous story. The amount was, however, reduced from million to approximately , rubles. At years-old, Bure married year-old model Alina Khasanova on October 10, Bure and Khasanova had known each other for four years after meeting in Turkey. Pravda reported the couple had officially married on October 10, , in Miami.
During Bure's playing career, much speculation surrounded Russian NHL players and their potential ties to the Russian mafia as both victims and associates.
As Soviet players began defecting to the NHL, many cases of extortion began surfacing that the Russian mafia was targeting the players' families still living in Russia. Former teammate Alexander Mogilny was involved in such an extortion attempt in , [] while Bure was reported to have made payments totaling in the thousands of dollars to Russian extortionists, as well, in Kikalishvili was known to both Russian and American police as a suspected criminal [] and was speculated to be a Russian mob boss.
While Bure did not deny his business and personal relationship with Kikalishvili, he refuted the reports that Kikalishvili was involved in any criminal activity. Among the more serious allegations was that former Red Army teammate Slava Fetisov used a company that he was president of to launder money for Vyacheslav Ivankov, considered to be the "Russian godfather" in North America.
Meanwhile, Bure's relationship with Kikalishvili continued to be questioned. Bure denied, once again, Kikalishvili's involvement in any criminal activity, dismissing the allegation as "rumours". Nearly a year after his retirement, on October 31, , Bure filed another suit after being kicked off a British Airways flight by the pilot, having been mistaken for a rowdy soccer fan.
Despite an official apology from the airline company in June , Bure took the issue to court, suing British Airways for 20 million rubles.
In late-August , the Tver Court of Moscow ruled in favour of Bure in the amount of 57, rubles and an additional 10, rubles in moral damage. Ice Hockey Wiki Explore. Players Teams Leagues Seasons Arenas. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account?
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Player Statistics. Tournament Statistics. Team Staff History. The Griffiths family, who owned the Canucks at the time, was starting to make inroads in the former Soviet Union and kept inquiring about how to get one of their best young players.
So Penny started going there. If this were today, the hockey world would have known Bure by the time he was 13 or 14, but so much of that country and its players were shrouded in secrecy. It was a very different time. Penny remembers going to Moscow and checking into a hotel that had two channels.
Two years later, Penny was in Moscow watching the Red Army practice and inquired to Larionov about a small, dynamic forward who stood out from the others. His name is Bure. How old is he? Put him on your radar screen. Any team could have taken him in the first three rounds, but with no guarantees he would ever play, none did.
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