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Originally Posted by Jay Random
I had the same idea, and had to look it up.
There was an uproar, all right, and the NHL did say Bure was ineligible. Apparently they didn't finally rule that he was eligible (and the Canucks' property) until just before the next year's draft. I suppose that's why I thought of him as having been drafted in 1990.
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iirc correctly, the Canucks and Bure had to pay money to settle the whole thing, too.