Pavel Bure - The most exciting hockey player

[MrGeno101]

Made a little tribute to one of my all time favorite player, Pavel Bure. And thought i could share it with u Canucks fans.

 

[Lundface*]

Watching Bure never gets old

Thanks for sharing

 

[Bleach Clean]

I enjoyed that, thanks for posting it.

Elite puck handling, shot, skating, offensive IQ... Such a dangerous offensive player.

 

[Lundface*]

Watching Bure never gets old

Thanks for sharing

 

[CherryToke]

awesome video, great job

 

[GrogZilla]

Very nice.
Bure was the man.

but I still hate seeing him in a Panthers Jersey

 

[Sergei Bure]

I will never forget when he made Lidstrom his bitch at 5.28 of that video...

 

[lawrence]

"deadliest" Canuck player of all time. One of the all time best ever. If not for Quinn Hughes.

 

[Tables of Stats]

Made a little tribute to one of my all time favorite player, Pavel Bure. And thought i could share it with u Canucks fans.

Imagine Bure with Hughes passing to him.

 

[PavelBure10]

Oh how I miss this player. Bure was one of the most exciting players to ever play the game. I couldn't imagine how good he would be in today's NHL where he didn't have players constantly water skiing behind him. Bure would tear it up. One of the very few good moments in Canucks history, where Canucks staff found the 1 extra game played that made Bure eligible for the 1989 NHL draft. 6th rounder 113th overall, what a steal. Don't say this often but that was some excellent scouting and research to find the extra game played by the Canucks staff. It sent the draft floor in a uproar.

Anyways great video and thanks for sharing. Bure was an amazing player, so many great memories.

 

[Canucker]

Great video...my favorite Canuck of all time. Especially sweet seeing him light up that blockhead Kelly Hrudey so often. lol

 

[Run the Gauntlet]

His goal scoring is more exciting than Ovechkin, at least to me.

 

[VanJack]

It's a debate fans will be having as long as Quinn Hughes plays in Vancouver.

Who was the most exciting player--Bure or Hughes? It's a lock that both are in the HOF.

But my vote still goes to Hughes.......playing a tougher position and a 'generational talent' with potential to change the way NHL teams employ their bluelines.

 

[MarkusNaslund19]

Pavel Bure was the reason I fell in love with hockey. I'm in my 40's and yet when I see his highlights I still see a superhero like I saw when I was 10.

He really drew the art out of hockey and it was such a pleasure to watch.

Then, because we can't have nice things, he got injured frequently and demanded to be traded.

But what a player.

 

[MarkMM]

It's a debate fans will be having as long as Quinn Hughes plays in Vancouver.

Who was the most exciting player--Bure or Hughes? It's a lock that both are in the HOF.

But my vote still goes to Hughes.......playing a tougher position and a 'generational talent' with potential to change the way NHL teams employ their bluelines.

To me Bure is the more exciting player simply due to his speed and the nature of his value (scoring goals), but overall Hughes is a more valuable player.

 

[Tables of Stats]

This makes me want to play an NHL game and create the all speed team. Bure, Hughes, Raymond, Kesler, Grabner, etc. Just blitz the opponents down.

 

[VanJack]

To me Bure is the more exciting player simply due to his speed and the nature of his value (scoring goals), but overall Hughes is a more valuable player.

Bure was all-world for the Canucks in the 1990's, which was really at the height of the 'dead puck era'. Referees weren't calling anything, and hooking, holding and interference often went unpunished.

But I really think that 25 years later the brand of hockey is far higher. The league is stronger, faster and more dynamic than it ever was. There's so many guys in the league now who skate at least as fast as Bure did and shoot just as hard. But that might also be function of better equipment, composite sticks, skate blades and better ice in newer buildings.

That's why Hughes to me is a more exciting player. What he does night after night just shouldn't be possible in today's NHL. But he often makes it look easy, and a lot of very good hockey players look foolish trying to check him.

 

[PavelBure10]

Pavel Bure was the reason I fell in love with hockey. I'm in my 40's and yet when I see his highlights I still see a superhero like I saw when I was 10.

He really drew the art out of hockey and it was such a pleasure to watch.

Then, because we can't have nice things, he got injured frequently and demanded to be traded.

But what a player.

Same with me. I'm also in my 40's and any person our age was obsessed with Bure. I remember being envious of the one kid who had the Bure jersey on the block, looked great with his Kool Aid mustache. Kids would always get into arguments regarding who got to be the Russian Rocket during street hockey. No you can be Gretzky..... fine!.
Bure was a hero during the 90's and I remember trying to save the $30+ bucks to try and get his Upper Deck world juniors rookie card. Ah the memories.

 

[PuckMunchkin]

Same with me. I'm also in my 40's and any person our age was obsessed with Bure. I remember being envious of the one kid who had the Bure jersey on the block, looked great with his Kool Aid mustache. Kids would always get into arguments regarding who got to be the Russian Rocket during street hockey. No you can be Gretzky..... fine!.
Bure was a hero during the 90's and I remember trying to save the $30+ bucks to try and get his Upper Deck world juniors rookie card. Ah the memories.

Cant believe we only got 5 seasons worth of games out of him.

From the point of view of a 10 - 15 year old me, felt like he was a Canuck forever and then got traded.

 

[PavelBure10]

Cant believe we only got 5 seasons worth of games out of him.

From the point of view of a 10 - 15 year old me, felt like he was a Canuck forever and then got traded.

I was devastated when he got traded. I was really hard on Jovanovski when he came to Vancouver as the top piece coming back in the Bure trade. It wasn't warranted but that trade crushed me.

 

[PuckMunchkin]

I was devastated when he got traded. I was really hard on Jovanovski when he came to Vancouver as the top piece coming back in the Bure trade. It wasn't warranted but that trade crushed me.

Same on both accounts.

Bure and Linden getting traded... Took me a long while to get back to being a fan of the team.

 

[PavelBure10]

Same on both accounts.

Bure and Linden getting traded... Took me a long while to get back to being a fan of the team.

The Linden trade hurt but atleast the trade was a franchise altering trade in a huge way. Linden turned into Bertuzzi, McCabe and Ruutu. In which McCabe turned into Sedin. Although heavily missed, Linden was the gift that kept on giving. Losing Bure for that crap package didn't help us. Sure we received Jovocop, but Kevin Weeks and the other pieces were garbage.

 

[theguardianII]

Pavel Bure was our #1 pick overall, the Canucks just picked him a year early thanks to scouting. He was already touted to be the first overall the next draft.

While Quinn is good he hasn't the strength or explosive burst of speed and not close to the shot and the game is ..... less physical.

For Pavel and Quinn the game is "slower" mentally, it is for most AAA tier 1 players and there are not a lot of those ever.

I remember his first shift and thought Stanley Cup.
Bure was the same as #1 overall, Linden was #2 overall, Nedved #2.

In a 3 year build and a couple of Quinn trades this team went from sweat hogs become elite. This in a time when Gretzky, Lemieux, Yzerman and several other teams had multiple HoF's on them. Canucks were still a little lacking.

IMO each generation will have their "best ever Canuck(s)" or hockey player(s), Orr is still the dominant Dman all others are measured by. In a era when 100 points was real, many time secondary assists were not counted he won the scoring title. So revered even the Russians praised him and one other player, Bob Gainey calling him the "Perfect" forward, they even offered Orr an knee surgery they had perfected to correct his knee, I think it was a cadaver transplant of some sort.

As good as Bure was he was traded and the TEAM is still here. The return was not as good as they could have got because it was known he wanted out and he was in the last year of his contract.

A lesson to be remembered. Don't wait until everyone knows the team has to make a trade before the end of the season of his last year.

 

[JFedol]

An insane player really, a lock for 50 goals, 90 to possibly 100pts in the dead puck era, playing with NOBODY of elite caliber lol.

His only weakness could've been his passing tbh. Looking back at his highlights, he should've emphasized playmaking and passing more, because it does seem sort've pointless to have explosive speed which creates a shit ton of space but to put a volume of shots on those elite chances.

But nonetheless, there's no doubt in my mind that Bure in today's era would be a perennial 120pt player easily