Valery Vladimirovich Bure

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RussiaRussia  Valery Bure Ice hockey player
Date of birth June 13, 1974
place of birth Moscow , Russian SFSR
size 178 cm
Weight 82 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1992 , 2nd lap, 33rd position
Montréal Canadiens
Career stations
until 1991 CSKA Moscow
1991-1994 Spokane Chiefs
1994-1995 Fredericton Canadiens
1995-1998 Montréal Canadiens
1998-2001 Calgary Flames
2001-2003 Florida panthers
2003 St. Louis Blues
2003-2004 Florida panthers
2004 Dallas Stars

Valeri Vladimirovich Bure ( Russian Валерий Владимирович Буре ; born June 13, 1974 in Moscow , Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey player , who during his active career between 1994 and 2004 for the Montréal Canadiens , Calgary Flames , Florida Panthers , St. Louis Blues and Dallas Stars played in the National Hockey League on the right winger position . His father Vladimir was a Soviet swimmer and his older brother Pavel was also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Valery Bure (right) and his brother Pavel (2nd from right) talking to Vladimir Putin (left) in 2001 .

Like his older brother, Valery Bure came from the offspring of the army club CSKA Moscow , where he made his debut in the Vysschaya League in the 1990/91 season . Benefiting from the fall of the Iron Curtain , Bure moved to North America in the summer of 1991 and joined the junior team of the Spokane Chiefs from the Western Hockey League . He stayed with this team for three years and collected 340 points in 200 games .

After he had already been selected in the second round of the NHL Entry Draft in 1992 in 33rd place by the Montreal Canadiens from the National Hockey League , they brought him to their farm team , the Fredericton Canadiens , from the American at the beginning of the 1994/95 season Hockey League . With the late start of the NHL season , Bure ran from January 1995 on for the Canadiens in the NHL. The often injured striker was rarely able to meet the expectations placed on him in the following three years. So he was given in February 1998 for Jonas Höglund and Zarley Zalapski to the league rivals Calgary Flames . The attacker found his way there better and better and led the team in the 1999/2000 season in the goals and points categories. In June 2001, after almost three and a half years, Bure's time in Calgary ended when he was given up with Jason Wiemer in exchange for Rob Niedermayer and a second-round vote in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft to the Florida Panthers . Due to several injuries, he completed only 77 games for the team within two years before the Panthers transferred him to the St. Louis Blues together with a five-round suffrage in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft for Mike Van Ryn . He played only eleven games for St. Louis before returning to Florida on the waiver list. There he completed the 2003/04 season until March 2004 . Then gave the Panthers Bure for Drew Bagnall and a second-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft 2004 to the Dallas Stars .

After the season, Bure underwent back surgery. Although he signed a contract with the Los Angeles Kings on August 12, 2005 , he never played a game for the team and eventually retired.

International

Bure represented his home country Russia at youth level in the U-20 World Youth Championship in 1994 as well as at senior level at the 1994 World Cup , the 1996 World Cup of Hockey and the Winter Olympics in 1998 in Nagano and 2002 in Salt Lake City .

In 1994 he won a bronze medal with the juniors. He won a silver and a bronze medal with the seniors at the Winter Olympics.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1990/91 CSKA Moscow Vysschaya League 3 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1991/92 Spokane Chiefs WHL 53 27 22nd 49 78 10 11 6th 17th 10
1992/93 Spokane Chiefs WHL 66 68 79 147 49 9 6th 11 17th 14th
1993/94 Spokane Chiefs WHL 59 40 62 102 48 3 5 3 8th 2
1994/95 Fredericton Canadiens AHL 45 23 25th 48 32 - - - - -
1994/95 Montréal Canadiens NHL 24 3 1 4th 6th - - - - -
1995/96 Montréal Canadiens NHL 77 22nd 20th 42 28 6th 0 1 1 6th
1996/97 Montréal Canadiens NHL 64 14th 21st 35 6th 5 0 1 1 2
1997/98 Montréal Canadiens NHL 50 7th 22nd 29 33 - - - - -
1997/98 Calgary Flames NHL 16 5 4th 9 2 - - - - -
1998/99 Calgary Flames NHL 80 26th 27 53 22nd - - - - -
1999/00 Calgary Flames NHL 82 35 40 75 50 - - - - -
2000/01 Calgary Flames NHL 78 27 28 55 26th - - - - -
2001/02 Florida panthers NHL 31 8th 10 18th 12 - - - - -
2002/03 Florida panthers NHL 46 5 21st 26th 10 - - - - -
2002/03 St. Louis Blues NHL 5 0 2 2 0 6th 0 2 2 8th
2003/04 Florida panthers NHL 55 20th 25th 45 20th - - - - -
2003/04 Dallas Stars NHL 13 2 5 7th 6th 5 0 3 3 0
Wysschaja League overall 3 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
WHL overall 178 135 163 298 175 22nd 22nd 20th 42 26th
AHL total 45 23 25th 48 32 - - - - -
NHL overall 621 174 226 400 221 22nd 0 7th 7th 16

International

Represented Russia in:

year team event Sp T V Pt SM
1994 Russia U20 World Cup 7th 5 3 8th 4th
1994 Russia WM 6th 3 0 3 2
1996 Russia WCH 1 0 0 0 2
1998 Russia Olympia 6th 1 0 1 0
2002 Russia Olympia 6th 1 0 1 2
Juniors overall 7th 5 3 8th 4th
Men overall 19th 5 0 5 6th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

Others

  • Valery Bure is married to the actress Candace Cameron ( Full House ). He has three children with her (born in 1998, 2000 and 2002).
  • His wife published on their homepage that they will open a restaurant in April 2007.

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personal data
SURNAME Bure, Valery Vladimirovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bure, Valeri (English); Bure, Valery (English); Буре, Валерий Владимирович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow