Bill Bowler
Bill Bowler ( born September 25, 1974 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach, who in his active period from 1991 to 2003, including for the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League, as well as the Krefeld Penguins in German Ice Hockey League has played.
Career
Bill Bowler began his career as a hockey player with the Windsor Spitfires, which until 1995 he was active from 1991 in the Canadian top junior league Ontario Hockey League. Then the attacker played for five years in the International Hockey League, in which he stood at the Las Vegas Thunder, the Houston Aeros and the Manitoba Moose under contract. In addition, the links guards ran in the 1997/98 season for the Hamilton Bulldogs in the American Hockey League. On August 3, 2000 Bowler awarded a contract as a free agent with the Columbus Blue Jackets, for whom he made his debut in the National Hockey League in the 2000/ 01 season, where he gave two assists in nine games. However, the rest of the time in the franchise of the Blue Jackets he spent at their AHL farm team Syracuse Crunch, Milwaukee Admirals and Norfolk Admirals. Although signed the Center on July 18, 2002 at the Boston Bruins of the NHL, but instead he moved to the Krefeld Penguins in the DEL, with whom he 03 German champion in the season 2002 /. Then the Canadians ended at the age of 28 years his active career. From 2005 to 2007 he worked as an assistant coach with the Windsor Spitfires in the Ontario Hockey League, where he had begun his career as a junior player.