Canucks alumni: Mike Penny was "a dog on a bone," when it came to Pavel Bure

Mike Penny worked for the Vancouver Canucks for 20 years , heading up the scouting department for much of the time.

He spearheaded the team selecting Pavel Bure in the NHL Draft in 1986 .

Bure played seven years with the Canucks , scoring three of the top four single-season goals outputs in franchise history.

Penny is still working as a pro scout for the Toronto Maple Leafs , based out of Vancouver .

Bure wasn’t selected in the first three rounds of the 1989 NHL draft in 1989 .

NHL rules stated at that time that 18-year-old European players needed to have played 11 games with the senior national team to be eligible for selection after the third round.

Most NHL teams thought Bure hadn't played enough games that year to qualify.

Vancouver picked Bure in the sixth round, No. 113 overall.

Mike Penny is going into the B.C. Hockey Hall of Fame alongside former Canucks defenceman Dan Hamhuis .

Penny says he's going year to year with the Maple Leafs and he’ll sit down with Toronto general manager Brad Treliving in the spring and talk about what next season looks like.