WILL THE TWO-TIME DEFENDING STANLEY CUP CHAMPS MISS THE PLAYOFFS ENTIRELY?<\/a><\/p>\nAs if those accolades weren’t enough to get you to tip your cap, I present to you a story from a Russian model who went on a date with Bure.<\/p>\n
Back in the early 2000s, Russian socialite Ksenia Sobchak \u2014 who is sometimes called “Russia’s Paris Hilton” \u2014 went on a date with the NHLer, and talked about what happened on an episode of her podcast, “Caution: Sobchak.”<\/p>\n
“This was very long ago,” Sobchak said, per Daily Hive. “Pavel Bure was courting me, and it was such a beautiful, romantic evening. It had everything: a fireplace burning, candles, this super romantic setting.”<\/p>\n
Alright, Pavel, you dog. What did he have up his sleeve? Drop the needle on a Barry White record?<\/p>\n
Nope.<\/p>\n
“So, here I am, sitting across from this guy,” Sobchak continued. “Young, hot, all muscles, great. We\u2019re sitting there, and he\u2019s like, ‘You know what I thought would be a great plan for tonight? Let\u2019s watch my best goals.'”<\/p>\n
This\u2026 this might be the greatest move I’ve ever heard.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Pavel Bure once tried to impress Russian socialite Ksenia Sobchak by making her watch his NHL highlights on a date, and honestly, it kind of rules. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n
I wish I could’ve done that in my dating days. But I don’t think there are too many *Jerry Lewis Voice* laaaaaadieessss, that would want to see some crisp breakout passes from my high school hockey career.<\/p>\n
But some peak Pavel Bure highlights?! What woman wouldn’t go nuts for that?!<\/p>\n
Well, Ksenia Sobchak, for one.<\/p>\n
“I was just sitting there like, ‘Wow, you\u2019re awesome, dude,'” the socialite said after explaining she knows nothing about hockey.<\/p>\n
Sounds to me like she does know something because Pavel Bure is awesome.<\/p>\n
I mean, just look at some of what he may have shown her!<\/p>\n
It didn’t work out between Sobchak and Bure, but the Russian Rocket did get married in 2009.<\/p>\n
I bet he had one hell of a highlight reel put together to seal the deal on that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not gonna lie, it’s kind of an awesome move. PublishedJanuary 17, 2026 3:31 PM EST\u2022UpdatedJanuary 17, 2026 3:31…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-413768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}