Jan Bulis

January Bulis (born 18 March 1978 in Pardubice, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech ice hockey player who is under contract with HC Traktor Chelyabinsk in the Kontinental Hockey League since 2011.

Career

January Bulis began his career as a hockey player in his youth HC Pardubice of the Czech first division, in which he was active until 1994. He then played one year for the Kelowna Spartans in the British Columbia Hockey League, before the attacker was from 1995 to 1997 for the Barrie Colts in the Canadian top junior league Ontario Hockey League on the ice. During this time he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1996 in the second round than a total of 43 players from the Washington Capitals, where he made ​​his debut in the National Hockey League in the 1997/98 season. In his rookie year of the links Sagittarius scored in 48 games overall scorer 16 points, including five goals. In his four years in the franchise of the Washington Capitals from the Czech Republic also played for the OHL Kingston Frontenacs team and Washington's farm teams. Cincinnati Cyclones of the International Hockey League and the Portland Pirates of the American Hockey League

In March 2001, Bulis was transferred to the Montréal Canadiens, for whom he had the following five seasons long active in the NHL. Only during the lockout in the 2004/ 05 NHL season he played in his Czech homeland when HC Pardubice of the Extraliga. With the team in their offspring, he had learned to play ice hockey, was the center of Czech champion. After he had played in the NHL for the Vancouver Canucks in the 2006/07 season, Bulis moved then back close to Europe, where he worked until 2011 for Atlant Mytischtschi, first the Russian Super League and from the 2008/09 season in the newly formed Continental Hockey League played.

In summer 2011, he moved within the KHL for HC Traktor Chelyabinsk.

Internationally

For the Czech Republic Bulis participated in the 2006 World Cup, and the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin in part.

Awards and achievements

• 2005 Czech Champion with HC Pardubice
• 2006 bronze medal at the Winter Olympics
• 2006 Silver medal at the World Championships

Career Stats

( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )