VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Pavel Bure is in Vancouver to help with tonight’s Canucks for Kids Telethon, and to make an appearance at a dinner with team owner Francesco Aquilini tomorrow night.

Bure says one of the reasons he came to Vancouver was because Aquilini asked him to come to his special event on Friday, and that the two had talked at the Hockey Hall of Fame Inductions.

“Francesco showed me great respect when he came to see me during the Hall of Fame induction,” says Bure.

He notes that he has had discussions with Aquilini about a future retirement of his #10 Canucks jersey, but he says that he will leave it up to the Canucks owner to share those details.

Bure, 42, says he currently spends his time between Europe and Florida and is about to become a father in the next few weeks.

Bure, selected by the Canucks 113th overall in the 1989 NHL Entry Draft began his NHL career in 1991–92, winning the Calder Memorial Trophy as the league’s best rookie, and calls the team’s 1994 Stanley Cup Final run one of his best hockey memories.

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