Jan Bulis

Jan Bulis
Date of birth	March 18, 1978
place of birth	Pardubice , Czechoslovakia
size	183 cm
Weight	95 kg
position	center
number	# 38
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1996 , 2nd round, 43rd position Washington Capitals
Career stations
until 1994	HC Pardubice
1994-1995	Kelowna Spartans
1995-1997	Barrie Colts
1997-2001	Washington Capitals
2001-2006	Montréal Canadiens
2004-2005	HC Pardubice
2006-2007	Vancouver Canucks
2007-2011	Atlant Mytishchi
2011-2015	HK tractor Chelyabinsk

Jan Bulis (born March 18, 1978 in Pardubice , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech ice hockey player . In the National Hockey League he completed a total of 587 games for the Washington Capitals , Montréal Canadiens and the Vancouver Canucks . He also played for Atlant Mytishchi and HK Traktor Chelyabinsk in the Continental Hockey League .

Career

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

In March 2001 Bulis was transferred to the Montréal Canadiens , for which he was active in the NHL for the following five seasons. Only during the lockout in the 2004/05 NHL season did he play in his Czech homeland at HC Pardubice from the Extraliga . With the team in whose offspring he had learned to play ice hockey, the center became Czech champions . After playing for the Vancouver Canucks in the NHL in the 2006/07 season , Bulis then moved back close to Europe, where he worked for Atlant Mytishchi until 2011 , initially in the Russian Super League and from the 2008/09 season in the newly founded continental Hockey league played.

In the summer of 2011 he moved to HK Tractor Chelyabinsk within the KHL and was under contract there until the end of the 2014/15 season. He then returned to the Czech Republic for family reasons, but remained without a contract. He officially announced the end of his sporting career in May 2016.

International

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

Achievements and Awards

• 2005 Czech champion with HC Pardubice
• 2006 bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games
• 2006 silver medal at the world championship

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1995/96	Barrie Colts	OHL		59	29	30th	59	22nd		7th	2	3	5	2
1996/97	Barrie Colts	OHL		64	42	61	103	42		9	3	7th	10	10
1997/98	Kingston Frontenacs	OHL		2	0	1	1	0		12	8th	10	18th	12
1997/98	Portland Pirates	AHL		3	1	4th	5	12		-	-	-	-	-
1997/98	Washington Capitals	NHL		48	5	11	16	18th		-	-	-	-	-
1998/99	Washington Capitals	NHL		38	7th	16	23	6th		-	-	-	-	-
1998/99	Cincinnati Cyclones	IHL		10	2	2	4th	14th		-	-	-	-	-
1999/00	Washington Capitals	NHL		56	9	22nd	31	30th		-	-	-	-	-
2000/01	Portland Pirates	AHL		4th	0	2	2	0		-	-	-	-	-
2000/01	Washington Capitals	NHL		39	5	13	18th	26th		-	-	-	-	-
2000/01	Montreal Canadiens	NHL		12	0	5	5	0		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Montreal Canadiens	NHL		53	9	10	19th	8th		6th	0	0	0	6th
2002/03	Montreal Canadiens	NHL		82	16	24	40	30th		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Montreal Canadiens	NHL		72	13	17th	30th	30th		11	1	1	2	4th
2004/05	HC Moeller Pardubice	Extra league		45	24	25th	49	113		16	7th	4th	11	43
2005/06	Montreal Canadiens	NHL		73	20th	20th	40	50		6th	1	1	2	2
2006/07	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		79	12	11	23	70		12	1	1	2	2
2007/08	Chimik Moskovskaya Oblast	Super league		57	17th	31	48	106		5	0	0	0	4th
2008/09	Atlant Mytishchi	KHL		35	9	8th	17th	16		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Atlant Mytishchi	KHL		56	25th	18th	43	68		4th	1	2	3	4th
2010/11	Atlant Mytishchi	KHL		42	14th	15th	29	62		24	4th	6th	10	26th
2011/12	Chelyabinsk tractor	KHL		43	5	14th	19th	68		16	1	2	3	4th
2012/13	Chelyabinsk tractor	KHL		49	16	15th	31	32		25th	9	2	11	16
2013/14	Chelyabinsk tractor	KHL		49	11	8th	19th	44		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Chelyabinsk tractor	KHL		43	5	7th	12	52		6th	0	0	0	4th
NHL overall				552	96	149	245	268		35	3	3	6th	14th
KHL total				317	85	85	170	342		75	15th	12	27	54

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

• Jan Bulis at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Jan Bulis at eurohockey.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Návrat, nebo konec? Bulis zatím stále váhá. In: pardubicky.denik.cz. July 14, 2015, accessed November 30, 2018 (Czech). 
2. ↑ Hokejista Bulis definitivně končí, možná bude skautovat. In: hokej.idnes.cz. June 26, 2016, Retrieved November 30, 2018 (Czech).