Pavel Bure never struggled much in the way of scoring goals.

Over the course of his career, he racked up 437 goals in 702 games — 254 of which came during his 428-game stint with the Vancouver Canucks.
And on this day in 1994, Bure hit the 50-goal mark for the second straight season. The 22-year-old hit the mark by scoring on an empty net in a 6-3 win over the LA Kings. It wasn&#8217;t just a special night for Bure, but it was a big night for the NHL as a whole as Wayne Gretzky scored career goal 802 breaking Gordie Howe&#8217;s record.
Bure was a revelation early in his career. Through his first three seasons — the 1993-94 campaign being his third — he scored 154 goals in 224 games piling up two 60-goal seasons. He never quite kept up the same scoring pace with his goal-per-game pace dipping by .1 throughout the rest of his career, but he still had spikes scoring 51 goals in his final season with the Canucks in 1997-98, then 58 and 59 goals in 1999-00 and 2000-01 with Flordia.
Bure, who was drafted by the Canucks in the 6th round of the 1989 draft, first played for the organization in 1991-92. In Jan. 1999, Bure, Brad Ference, Bret Hedican and a 2000 3rd round pick were traded to the Florida Panthers for Mike Brown, Dave Gagner, Ed Jovanovski, Kevin Weekes and a 1st round pick in 2000.
Bure was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as part of the 2012 class.
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Zach Laing is the Nation Network’s news director and senior columnist. He can be followed on Twitter at<a href="http://www.twitter.com/zjlaing"> @zjlaing</a>, or reached by email at zach@oilersnation.com.
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Pavel Bure never struggled much in the way of scoring goals.



Over the course of his career, he racked up 437 goals in 702 games — 254 of which came during his 428-game stint with the Vancouver Canucks.

And on this day in 1994, Bure hit the 50-goal mark for the second straight season. The 22-year-old hit the mark by scoring on an empty net in a 6-3 win over the LA Kings. It wasn't just a special night for Bure, but it was a big night for the NHL as a whole as Wayne Gretzky scored career goal 802 breaking Gordie Howe's record.

Bure was a revelation early in his career. Through his first three seasons — the 1993-94 campaign being his third — he scored 154 goals in 224 games piling up two 60-goal seasons. He never quite kept up the same scoring pace with his goal-per-game pace dipping by .1 throughout the rest of his career, but he still had spikes scoring 51 goals in his final season with the Canucks in 1997-98, then 58 and 59 goals in 1999-00 and 2000-01 with Flordia.

Bure, who was drafted by the Canucks in the 6th round of the 1989 draft, first played for the organization in 1991-92. In Jan. 1999, Bure, Brad Ference, Bret Hedican and a 2000 3rd round pick were traded to the Florida Panthers for Mike Brown, Dave Gagner, Ed Jovanovski, Kevin Weekes and a 1st round pick in 2000.

Bure was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as part of the 2012 class.

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Zach Laing is the Nation Network’s news director and senior columnist. He can be followed on Twitter at<a href="http://www.twitter.com/zjlaing"> @zjlaing</a>, or reached by email at zach@oilersnation.com.

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On this day in 1994, Vancouver Canucks’ Pavel Bure hits 50-goal mark for second straight season

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