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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 for four days as a result ( the amount claimed to be owing was US $ 1. 7 million ), before the two sides reached an agreement that the Canucks would put the disputed amount in escrow and would continue discussions.
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.

Bure and out
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.

Bure and well
With the retirements of Bure and Messier as well as Lindros signing with the Maple Leafs, the post-lockout Rangers, under new head coach Tom Renney, moved away from high-priced veterans towards a group of talented young players, such as Petr Prucha, Dominic Moore, and Blair Betts.
The village lies on the north bank of the River Bure, and has many waterside properties, pubs, shops, restaurants, tea-rooms, boat-trips as well as other features to enjoy.
There are 17 bridges, including a long girder bridge over the River Bure in Buxton with Lammas as well as Aylsham Bypass Tunnel under the A140 at Aylsham.
" Kariya himself cited Gretzky, as well as Brett Hull, Jeremy Roenick and Pavel Bure as players he liked patterning his game after.
Injuries to forwards Alexander Mogilny and Todd Bertuzzi, as well as the absence of Pavel Bure, resulted in Näslund earning more ice time.
In addition to receiving criticism from Isles fans who labeled him a traitor, he drew the rage of Ranger fans as well, who felt he misused his offensively gifted players such as Eric Lindros and Pavel Bure by having them play the neutral-zone trap ( a defensive tactic used to slow down the opponent, but also limiting the user's offensive chances ).
Bure also earned another opportunity to meet Gretzky, as well as defenceman Paul Coffey, when his team stopped in Edmonton to play at the Northlands Coliseum.
As a member of the Moscow-based club, Bure joined a lineup that featured several future NHL players, including linemates Sergei Fedorov and Alexander Mogilny, as well as Igor Larionov, Slava Fetisov, Sergei Makarov, and Vladimir Konstantinov.
With Bure's reduced playing capacity, he managed 55 points in 63 games, well below his usual pace, and the Canucks missed the playoffs for the first time since Bure joined the team.
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.
The New York Rangers acquired Bure on March 18, 2002, along with Florida's second-round pick in the 2002 draft ( Lee Falardeau ) for Igor Ulanov, Filip Novak, as well as the Rangers ' first and second-round choices in the 2002 draft ( Petr Tatíček and Rob Globke, respectively ) and a fourth-round choice in the 2003 draft.
Bure retained his father as his personal trainer well into his playing career, before severing ties with him in 1997.

Bure and into
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.
The level of water in Muck Fleet is lower than that of the River Bure, and water from the channel is pumped into the river by Stokesby pumping station, which is maintained by the Internal Drainage Board.
At the east end of Breydon Water the river returns to a narrow channel, passing under Breydon Bridge after which it is joined by the River Bure then under Haven Bridge from where it is 4. 4 km through the harbour into the North Sea.
After Aylsham Lock and Burgh Bridge, the Bure passes through Buxton Lammas, Coltishall, Belaugh, Wroxham, Horning, Ludham Bridge, past St. Benet's Abbey, through Oby, Acle, Stokesby, along the northern border of the Halvergate Marshes, through Runham and Great Yarmouth where it meets Breydon Water and flows into the sea at Gorleston.
Town houses took their water from wells dug into the substrate which became increasingly polluted by leaching of waste through the alluvial bed of the Bure.
* April 30, 1994: Pavel Bure scores 2: 20 into double overtime of the seventh game of the opening round of Vancouver's playoff series with Calgary.
After six years of eligibility, Bure was elected into the Hockey Hall of Fame in June 2012.
On arriving in Vancouver, the former Red Army teammate took Bure into his North Vancouver home for two weeks before Bure moved into his own downtown apartment.
Bure and the Canucks had, in fact, entered into contract negotiations at the beginning of the 1993 94 season, although two years remained in his original deal.
In the season opener against the Calgary Flames, on October 5, 1996, Bure was pushed into the boards head-first by rookie defenceman Todd Simpson.
Because Bure had been inactive since the 2002 03 season, he was eligible for selection into the Hockey Hall of Fame ( HHOF ) immediately following his retirement.
Bure ventured into the wine making business, where he has partnered with a few entrepreneurs and created Bure Family Wines.
After the Rangers came back from a 3 0 deficit to tie the game, Babych jumped into the rush and buried a pass from Pavel Bure to score the game-winning goal.

0.131 seconds.