Hockey

Highly rated Pavel Bure has left the Soviet Union and will play for the Vancouver Canucks this season, Le Journal de Montreal reported.

The newspaper said Bure, 20, has been missing in Moscow since Sept. 5. It said Bure, his younger brother and his father were staying at the home of his agent in Manhattan Beach.

Bure, a left wing, was left off the Soviet team for the Canada Cup because he refused to commit to a three-year contract with the Red Army club.