* Vladimir Bure, Soviet swimmer, father of Pavel Bure and Valeri Bure.

After Bure failed to impress in his first tryout, his father told him that if he did not show significant improvement within two months, he would withdraw him from the hockey school.

Bure left Moscow with his father and brother on September 6, 1991, temporarily staying in Los Angeles.

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.

Shortly after arriving in North America from Moscow with his father and brother on September 6, 1991 ( his mother Tatiana arrived two months later ), Bure married an American fashion model in a civil ceremony five days later.

Bure then went public with the declaration the following month, stating that he intended to leave the club for " personal reasons ".

While Bure did not deny his business and personal relationships with Kikalishvili, he refuted reports that Kikalishvili was involved in any criminal activity.

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 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 ).

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.

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.

While Mogilny became the second player in team history to record 50 goals and 100 points in a season ,, chiefly playing with center Cliff Ronning, the expected chemistry between Mogilny and Bure never materialized, with the latter suffering a season-ending knee injury early in the campaign.

The Soviet Union would repeat gold at the 1990 World Championships in Switzerland against Czechoslovakia, with Bure playing on Fedorov's wing.

Bure began his professional hockey career at age 16, playing for the Central Red Army team.

He was invited to the senior club's training camp for the 1987 – 88 season and, although he was deemed too young and not yet ready for the Soviet League, Bure earned minimal playing time filling in for absent regulars.

During the 1991 World Junior Championships, he told the Toronto Sun in an interview that he was hesitant to defect for fears that the Soviets would make things difficult for his younger brother Valeri Bure, who was 15 at the time and playing in the junior league.

After Bure went eight games without a goal, Renney claimed that 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.

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.

In an interview with hockey magazine Puck Life, Bure explained that he did not want to extend his playing career without being able to play at an elite level.

In his retirement, Bure has remained publicly steadfast in his dissatisfaction with the way he was treated by the Canucks organization during his playing career.

Two years later, Bure made his second Olympic appearance at the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City, playing with a fractured hand.

Comparing his time in Vancouver and Florida, Bure has recalled playing in the latter city as having more opportunity to " live a normal life ... without anyone paying much attention.

Due to his incredible speed and stick handling, he was often referred to as the " Russian Rocket II " due to his similar playing style to that of Russian great Pavel Bure.