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Pavel Bure engaged 7 October 2008 It is official. Pavel Bure is finally engaged! His engagement party is set for this weekend in Miami, a few days after his arrival from Russia. Fellow ex-NHL player Gino Odjick is just one of the many people who is attending the event. More news on the Russian bride-to-be as it becomes available. ----Back to Headline List----

Old stars still shine Ex-NHLers Cheevers and Ronning delight local hockey fans with Friday visit by Craig Slater, Nanaimo Daily News 11 October 2008 There is no mistaking the Roberto Luongo jersey that stands proudly at the entrance of Fan Fever in the Nanaimo North Town Centre. In the background, an Iginla sweater hangs on the top rack alongside names like Ovechkin, Malkin and Crosby. They are, without question, the top-selling NHL jerseys in today's market, much in the same way the skills and popularity of these current superstars are unmatched around the globe. Both Cliff Ronning and Gerry Cheevers, former NHLers, can't deny the following today's stars receive, but each have fond memories of the superstars they played with or against during their heydays in professional hockey. "There was a time that Pavel Bure, no question, was the most exciting player in the NHL," Ronning said of his former Vancouver Canucks teammate. "The first three years of his career in Vancouver . . . he took guys to another level. He was a player who came over (from Russia) and brought everyone's fitness level so high. He changed the game in so many ways." Ronning and Cheevers were in Nanaimo Friday speaking at the Serauxmen Sports Celebrity Dinner at Beban Park Social Centre. Ronning skated with Bure for five seasons in the early-to-mid 1990s in Vancouver, watching in awe as the Russian speedster twice scored 60 goals in a season and led the Canucks to the 1994 Stanley Cup final. "When I talk to some of the Russians who are over here now, they always ask me about playing with Bure," Ronning continued. "He was different than a lot of the others like (Sergei) Fedorov. He was in your face, he would hit and he was just a different breed of player." Still very much a fan of the game at every level, Ronning said he marvels at the skill and personality of one of Bure's countrymen, Alex Ovechkin. "Ovechkin is just like Bure, but I think he's even better," he said of last year's Art Ross and Rocket Richard Trophy winner. "He seems to be the player for kids and fans to watch. How can you not love this guy? He brings it every game, and the only other guy I remember playing like that was Pavel Bure. "You know something is going to happen when (Ovechkin) is on the ice. He's a lot of fun to watch." Cheevers agreed. The two-time Stanley Cup winner with the Boston Bruins (1970 and '72) played in a different era than Ronning, and recalled some of the game's greats from his days in the 1960s and '70s. Guys like Rick Middleton, Terry O'Reilly and Bobby Orr obviously stood out. "You hit it right on the nose when you said Bobby Orr," Cheevers said of his Bruins teammate of seven seasons who, in one season finished an astonishing +124. "Of course Bobby was a great, great player and one of the greatest of all time. But you have to mention Jean Beliveau in there too. He was also a tremendous player. Stan Mikita is another one, too." Beliveau, of course, was a member of the Cheevers' biggest rival, the Montreal Canadiens. Beliveau's name appears on the Stanley Cup a record 17 times, and when he retired in 1971 he was the franchise all-time leader in points. "They change over the years," Cheevers said of the game's star players. "They keep getting faster and stronger. The equipment is better which makes them shoot harder and skate faster, and they probably take better care of themselves, too." These days Cheevers find himself busy maintaining his website, gerrycheevers.com, where he sells replica "stiched" goalie masks and T-shirts. Ronning, meanwhile, is coaching in the Vancouver Selects AAA Hockey Association. Last year his team captured the North American championship. Both signed autographs for a couple of hours Friday afternoon at Fan Fever. Both spoke at Friday's dinner, too. "I'm no Dennis Hull," Cheevers said of last year's Serauxmen Sports Celebrity Dinner guest speaker. "He's a tough guy to follow, I'm sure. In all honesty, he stole a lot of my lines." ----Back to Headline List----

Pavel Bure married? 7 October 2008 It is our understanding that Pavel Bure is now married. The secret wedding, was held last week in Miami, and attended by his family and close friends like Gino Odjick. Pavel refused to discuss it when we talked to him by phone this week, seeking privacy concerns. We do know though, that his wife is from Russia, and that he has known and dated her for quite a while prior to the marriage. ----Back to Headline List----

With Anderson in HHOF, Bure should be next by Ken Campbell - - The Hockey News 10 November 2008 hen Glenn Anderson finally enters the hallowed Hockey Hall of Fame Monday, it will mark the end of one of the great injustices in the game. Anderson deserved to be enshrined among the all-time greats a long time ago and for reasons only it knows, the epitome of hockey’s old boy’s network kept him out. Good on them, though, for finally correcting their mistake. And now that Anderson has been inducted, let’s move on to the next player who deserves to join him. That would be Pavel Bure. Not Doug Gilmour, not Dino Ciccarelli, not Phil Housley, not Lorne Chabot. It’s not that those players aren’t worthy of consideration, but it’s an embarrassment that Bure is not in the Hall of Fame and it is time the rest of the hockey world began banging the drum in an effort to shame the selection committee to get off its laurels and get around to inducting him. But like Anderson, who was eligible as far back as 2000, Bure will also have to be patient. He has been eligible for induction since 2006, but it’s pretty much certain he won’t even be considered in 2009. Steve Yzerman, Brett Hull, Brian Leetch and Luc Robitaille are not only worthy first-ballot inductees, but they’d also make up one of the strongest induction classes of all-time. (What boggles the mind is what exactly made Anderson worthy of the Hall of Fame after he was supposedly unworthy the first seven times he was eligible. But let’s not try to figure out the rationale behind inductions or we’ll drive ourselves out of our minds.) But there’s no doubt Bure belongs among them. He was a prodigious goal-scorer and one of the most exciting and dynamic players in the history of the game. His skill sold tickets, then pulled people out of their seats once they paid for them. Even though much of his career was spent going head-to-head with the likes of Jaromir Jagr, Teemu Selanne, Alexander Mogilny, Cam Neely and Theo Fleury in their primes, he was a first-team all-star once at right wing and a second-teamer twice. I’m not about to get into comparing Bure with players who are already in the Hall of Fame just to make his case. That’s because the reality is anyone who doesn’t realize that Bure belongs in the Hall ahead of the likes of Bob Pulford, Dick Duff, Bernie Federko, Clark Gillies and a host of other marginal players seriously has to have his or her hockey credentials revoked. Just because the Hall has made a number of egregious errors on player inductions in the past doesn’t mean it should continue to do so by going to the lowest common denominator. But they wouldn’t be doing that with Bure. From the time he came into the league with the Vancouver Canucks in 1991-92, Bure was and electrifying presence and a player who was a legitimate threat to make something exciting happen every time he was on the ice. In addition to his all-star berths, Bure won the Calder Trophy in 1992 (over Nicklas Lidstrom) and twice won the Rocket Richard Trophy. He also would have won the trophy in 1993-94 had it existed. The two arguments against Bure are that his career was cut short by injury and he never won a Stanley Cup, but both of those are quite easily debunked. First of all, having a short career didn’t hurt Bobby Orr or Mike Bossy and it should not be held against Bure that his back gave in to the rigors of playing in the toughest league in the world. Had he spent the first half or two-thirds of his career playing in Europe and piling up Olympic gold medals and World Championships against inferior competition and in a much less rigorous environment, the way 2008 inductee Igor Larionov did, Bure would have his path to the Hall of Fame cleared already. Secondly, it’s not Bure’s fault he didn’t win a Stanley Cup. He came agonizingly close to doing so with the Vancouver Canucks in 1994, a spring in which he led all NHL players in playoff goals with 16. Although Bure only played in the playoffs five times, he failed to average at least a point per game just one of those years and his 70 points in 64 playoff games stacks up favorably against a lot of players with Hall of Fame credentials. But it was his sustained excellence during the regular season – particularly in goal scoring – that sets Bure apart. He played just 702 games, but scored 437 goals, just 47 fewer than Hall of Famer Darryl Sittler, whose 484 career goals came in almost 400 more games than Bure played. In fact, Bure’s average of .623 goals per game is third-highest in NHL history among the league’s top 100 goal scorers behind only Bossy (.762) and Mario Lemieux (.754). And even though Bure would become the first Russian player in history to be inducted almost solely on his NHL exploits, he also has an impressive international resume that some might not take into account. He was part of one of the most dominant lines in World Junior Championship history in 1989 with Mogilny and Sergei Fedorov, where Bure was named the top forward. He followed that up with a World Championship in 1990 and a silver medal at the 1998 Olympics, in which he scored nine goals in six games and was named the top forward of the tournament. Bure has the Hall of Fame credentials to be sure. His day will undoubtedly come. It’s too bad the selection committee will have to be shamed into inducting him far too late the way it did with Anderson. ----Back to Headline List----

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