Brett Kulak

Brett Kulak
Date of birth	January 6, 1994
place of birth	Edmonton , Alberta , Canada
size	188 cm
Weight	85 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2012 , 4th lap, 105th position Calgary Flames
Career stations
2011-2014	Vancouver Giants
2014-2015	Adirondack Flames Colorado Eagles
2015-2017	Stockton Heat
2015-2018	Calgary Flames
since 2018	Canadiens de Montréal Rocket de Laval

Brett Kulak (born January 6, 1994 in Edmonton , Alberta ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Canadiens de Montréal from the National Hockey League since October 2018 and at the same time for their farm team, the Rocket de Laval , in American Hockey League is used.

Career

Kulak first played in lower class junior teams in the province of Alberta before making his debut for the Vancouver Giants from the Western Hockey League during the 2010/11 season . With the beginning of the 2011/12 season he was an integral part of the squad there. At the end of the season, the defender was selected in the fourth round of the 2012 NHL Entry Draft in 105th place by the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League . The Canadian stayed two more years with the Giants in the WHL. However, he had already gained his first professional experience at the end of the 2012/13 season when he entered the American Hockey League on a trial contract for Calgary's farm team , the Abbotsford Heat .

After finishing his junior career, Kulak, who had signed an entry-level contract in Calgary in March 2014 , again spent the end of the 2013/14 season in Abbotsford. The following game year spent the defender after the resettlement of the team from Abbotsford with the Adirondack Flames in the AHL and the Colorado Eagles in the ECHL . He also made his NHL debut in the 2014-15 season when he played his first game for Calgary in April 2015. In addition, there were eight more missions in the 2015/16 season . But he still spent most of the season on the farm team, which, after moving again, now took part in the game as Stockton Heat . The Canadian began the 2016/17 season with the Flames in the NHL and was used regularly until the end of November 2016. Subsequently, his stakes decreased and after the management of the Flames had improved personnel in the defensive positions, Kulak was ordered again to Stockton in the AHL in February 2017.

Kulak spent the 2017/18 season for the first time in the NHL with the Flames. In October 2018, however, he was handed over to the Canadiens de Montréal , while Matt Taormina and Rinat Valiyev moved to Calgary in return .

Achievements and Awards

• 2012 CHL Top Prospects Game

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2010/11	Vancouver Giants	WHL		3	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Vancouver Giants	WHL		72	9	15th	24	28		6th	0	4th	4th	2
2012/13	Vancouver Giants	WHL		72	12	32	44	34		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Abbotsford Heat	AHL		4th	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Vancouver Giants	WHL		69	14th	46	60	51		4th	1	2	3	7th
2013/14	Abbotsford Heat	AHL		6th	1	2	3	2		4th	0	0	0	2
2014/15	Adirondack Flames	AHL		26th	4th	9	13	27		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Colorado Eagles	ECHL		39	9	21st	30th	15th		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Calgary Flames	NHL		1	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Stockton Heat	AHL		59	3	14th	17th	36		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Calgary Flames	NHL		8th	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Stockton Heat	AHL		22nd	2	8th	10	14th		5	0	4th	4th	4th
2016/17	Calgary Flames	NHL		21st	0	3	3	12		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Calgary Flames	NHL		71	2	6th	8th	27		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Rocket de Laval	AHL		19th	3	8th	11	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		57	6th	11	17th	31		-	-	-	-	-
WHL overall				216	35	93	128	107		10	1	6th	7th	9
AHL total				136	13	41	54	83		9	0	4th	4th	6th
NHL overall				158	8th	20th	28	72		-	-	-	-	-

( 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

• Player biography on the Canadiens de Montréal website
• Brett Kulak at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Matt Cudzinowski: Canadiens acquire defenseman Brett Kulak from Calgary. nhl.com, October 1, 2018, accessed October 1, 2018 .