{"id":4689,"date":"2013-09-06T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/canucks-to-retire-bures-number\/"},"modified":"2013-09-06T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T11:30:00","slug":"canucks-to-retire-bures-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/canucks-to-retire-bures-number\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks to retire Bure&#8217;s number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver, BC (Sports Network) &#8211; The Vancouver Canucks announced on Friday that the club will honor superstar forward Pavel Bure with a jersey retirement ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Bure&#8217;s No. 10 will be raised to the rafters prior to a home contest on Nov. 2 against the Toronto Maple Leafs. He&#8217;ll become the fourth player to receive such an honor, joining Stan Smyl (12), Trevor Linden (16) and Markus Naslund (19).<\/p>\n<p>The native of Moscow entered the NHL with the Canucks for the 1991-92 season, winning the Calder Trophy after posting 34 goals and 60 points in 65 games.<\/p>\n<p>He followed up with back-to-back franchise-best 60-goal campaigns, the latter coming in 1994, when the underdog Canucks took the Presidents&#8217; Trophy-winning New York Rangers to a Game 7 in the Stanley Cup Finals. Bure led the club that postseason with 16 tallies and 31 points in 24 games.<\/p>\n<p>Nicknamed &#8220;The Russian Rocket,&#8221; Bure departed British Columbia in January of 1999 after racking up 254 goals and 478 points in 428 games. The fleet winger remains the franchise leader in short-handed goals with 24 and also compiled nine hat tricks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver, BC (Sports Network) &#8211; The Vancouver Canucks announced on Friday that the club will honor superstar forward Pavel Bure with a jersey retirement ceremony. Bure&#8217;s No. 10 will be raised to the rafters prior to a home contest on Nov. 2 against the Toronto Maple Leafs. He&#8217;ll become the fourth player to receive such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}