BURKE BACHARACH: NHL EXEC RETURNS TO ROOTS IN VANCOUVER

          The Canucks and Orca Bay Sports & Entertainment named
     Brian Burke as the team's new President & GM.  Burke had
     been serving as the NHL's Senior VP and Dir of Hockey
     Operations.  Burke, who was introduced by the team
     yesterday, will "report only" to Orca Bay Sports &
     Entertainment President Stephen Bellringer, "who said he was
     happy to 'get out of the hockey business and back into the
     business business.'"  Burke said he saw the "problems" with
     this franchise as "opportunities to make the club better.  I
     hope the first impact I have is to stop some of the waves.
     This organization has been battered by storm after storm"
     (VANCOUVER SUN, 6/23).  In Vancouver, Gary Mason calls
     Burke's hiring "pretty captivating. ... You could feel a
     bolt of fresh air blow into town" (VANCOUVER SUN, 6/23).