The Toronto Sun held that the contract was a five-year, US $ 22. 5 million deal, and that it was signed prior to either game six or seven of the opening round against the Flames after Bure's agent, Ron Salcer, told general manager Quinn that Bure would not play if the deal was not made.

Bure held out well into the 1998 – 99 season until he was traded on January 17, 1999, to the Florida Panthers, with Bret Hedican, Brad Ference, and Vancouver's third-round choice in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft ( Robert Fried ) for Ed Jovanovski, Dave Gagner, Mike Brown, Kevin Weekes, and Florida's first-round choice in the 2000 draft ( Nathan Smith ).

After the Panthers were eliminated in the 2000 playoffs, Bure was added to the Russian roster for the 2000 World Championships, held in Saint Petersburg.

Downstream, the Bure ran parallel with Water Lane, then the main road out of town towards London.

With Bure out of the game, the Canucks lost the contest 5 – 1.

A Toronto Star article published before the first game of the Finals on May 31, 1994, claimed that Bure had signed a five-year, US $ 30 million contract that, if the Canucks had not agreed to, would have seen him pull out of game five of the Conference Finals against the Maple Leafs.

Afterwards, Bure admitted that 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 having missed 62 games the previous season.

Bure later recalled that with the Canucks out of playoff contention with a handful of games left, head coach Mike Keenan told Bure he could play as much as he wanted in order to reach the milestone.

After being out of the lineup for nearly three weeks, Bure returned to appear in five more games, but was sidelined once more for the rest of the season with a knee injury that he suffered on March 3 after a collision with defenceman Adam Foote in a game against the Colorado Avalanche.

Bure was set to make his much-anticipated return to Vancouver to play the Canucks on November 5, 1999, but was instead kept out of the lineup due to a broken finger suffered in a game against the Edmonton Oilers.

Among the players chosen over him, defensive forward Dick Duff ( inducted in 2006 ) was singled out by Vancouver sports journalist Tony Gallagher in The Province as one Bure deserved recognition over.

Among his claimed disservices, Bure has singled out his arrival in North America after defecting from Russia, in which it took the Canucks organization several weeks to get in contact with him in Los Angeles.

Another instance he has mentioned in particular were his contract negotiations in 1994, when it was rumoured that Bure was threatening to sit himself out of the playoffs as leverage.

Playing the Czech Republic in the final, however, Bure and the Russians were shut out by goaltender Dominik Hašek and lost the gold medal by a 1 – 0 score.

Attempting to make his second straight trip to the gold medal game, Bure and the Russians knocked out the Czech Republic in the quarterfinals 1-0, but lost in the semi-finals to the United States by 3 – 2.

Canucks teammate and captain Trevor Linden, who had played with Bure for seven seasons, said following Bure's retirement, " I don't know if I've ever seen or played with a player that's brought people out of their seats like that.

Finally on 4 March, fearing his line of communication to Debre Marqos was threatened, Colonel Natale, not knowing that the attacking force counted only 450 men, pulled out of Bure and headed for Dembacha on the road to Debre Marqos.

And it is not merely the small, but the large islands also, and not merely the islands, but the continents, which can be lifted up together with the sea ; and both large and small tracts may subside, for habitations and cities, like Bure, Bizona, and many others, have been engulfed by earthquakes.

Bure was believed by most teams to be ineligible for selection that year.

Despite strong performances from Mogilny and team-leading point-scorer Martin Gelinas in Bure and Linden's absence ( both of whom were injured for long periods of time during the season ), the Canucks missed the playoffs for the first of four consecutive seasons that year.

With Bure gone and Messier in the last year of his contract, several previously under-achieving players began developing into key contributors for the team, most notably Naslund and Bertuzzi.

It rises near Martham Broad and flows for about six miles ( 10 km ) to Thurne Mouth where it joins the Bure.

At La Bure, located a few kilometres from Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, archaeologists have found evidence for human habitation going back to around 2000 BC.

The ferry connected Horning Lower Street with Woodbastwick Staithe, for access to Bure Marshes, Cockshoot Broad, Woodbastwick brewery and The Fur & Feather Inn.

Between 1779 and 1912, it was possible to navigate the River Bure all the way to Aylsham, but now the limit of navigation for powered craft is just south of Coltishall.

Muck Fleet, which connects the broads to the River Bure, is too shallow even for such craft.

The River Bure has been navigable for some as far as Horstead Mill, near Coltishall, since at least 1685, when cargoes of coal, corn and timber were carried to within of Meyton manor house.

* Bure, Belgium, a small village in the Belgian province of Luxembourg, known for the Chantoir ( sinkhole ) de Bure.

* Bure is the Fijian word for a wood-and-straw hut.

The River Bure Wherry was 54 ' x 12 ' 8 ", but for the Aylsham Navigation, i. e. the upper reaches of the Bure, the boats had to be 12 ' 6 " x 3 ' 6 " maximum.

The ancient but natural transport route for Aylsham would have been the River Bure, but it was not open to substantial navigation.

Aylsham is also the terminus for the Bure Valley Railway ( on the site of Aylsham South railway station ), the Bure Valley Path and the Marriott's Way long distance footpath.

His play during his first NHL season earned him comparisons to Wayne Gretzky for his vision and Pavel Bure for his speed, while also earning accolades from Gretzky himself.

By reaching the 50-goal plateau for the second straight season, he became the first NHL player to do so since Pavel Bure in 1999 – 2000.

He was succeeded as general manager by Pavel Bure for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.

The earliest church was probably a timber structure serving the inhabitants of the growing Saxon settlements on each side of the River Bure, and as a mission centre for the surrounding countryside.

His 25 power play goals led the league and tied Pavel Bure for the Canucks single-season record.

In the third game of the season, Bure scored a career-high four goals against the Winnipeg Jets.

Bure scored four goals and an assist in five games, and the Soviets captured the gold medal by defeating the United States in the final.

In six games, Bure managed four goals and an assist.

Bure and Khasanova had known each other for four years after meeting in Turkey.

In 2000, Sather joined the Rangers to become their President and General Manager, a position he currently holds despite not making the playoffs during his first four years at Madison Square Garden and cutting ties with many beloved Rangers, such as Adam Graves and Brian Leetch to bring in high-profile ( yet unsuccessful in New York ) players such as Eric Lindros, Pavel Bure, and Bobby Holik.