Gilbert Brulé

Gilbert Brulé
Date of birth	January 1, 1987
place of birth	Edmonton , Alberta , Canada
size	178 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	center
number	# 67
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2005 , 1st round, 6th position Columbus Blue Jackets
Career stations
2002-2003	Quesnel Millionaires
2003-2006	Vancouver Giants
2006-2008	Columbus Blue Jackets
2008–2012	Edmonton Oilers
2012	Phoenix Coyotes
2012	ZSC Lions
2013	Phoenix Coyotes
2014-2015	Awtomobilist Ekaterinburg
2015-2016	KHL Medveščak Zagreb
2016-2017	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2017-2018	Kunlun Red Star
2018-2019	HK Sibir Novosibirsk
since 2019	Kunlun Red Star

Gilbert Jean Marco Brulé (born January 1, 1987 in Edmonton , Alberta ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Kunlun Red Star in the Continental Hockey League since May 2019 .

Career

Gilbert Brulé began his career as a hockey player with the Quesnel Millionaires, for whom he played in the British Columbia Hockey League in the 2002/03 season. Then the attacker was under contract with the Vancouver Giants from the Western Hockey League for three years . During this time he was selected during the NHL Entry Draft 2005 in the first round as the sixth player of the Columbus Blue Jackets . Already during his last season in Vancouver Brulé made his debut in the National Hockey League for Columbus, but came in the 2005/06 season only to seven appearances in the NHL due to several serious injuries.

On July 1, 2008, Brulé was given to Edmonton Oilers in exchange for Raffi Torres . After the Canadian began the season there in the NHL squad, he was sent to their farm team , the Springfield Falcons , in the American Hockey League . In the 2009/10 season Brulé secured a regular place in the NHL roster of the Edmonton Oilers when he was used in 65 games and scored 37 points.

After Brulé was only active for the AHL farm team of the Edmonton Oilers, the Oklahoma City Barons , in the 2011/12 season , the Phoenix Coyotes selected the offensive player on the waiver list in January 2012. In August 2012, Brulé signed a contract for the 2012/13 season with the ZSC Lions in the Swiss National League A , which he dissolved in October 2012 for private reasons and by mutual consent.

He was then unemployed before Brulé took part in the Coyotes training camp in late summer 2013. He then received a trial contract with the Portland Pirates, before signing a two-way contract with the Coyotes in late November 2013 until the end of the season. Brulé completed three games for the NHL franchise, after which he was sent back to the farm team by the Coyotes. However, Brulé refused to play for the Pirates again and temporarily ended his career in early January 2014.

In May 2014, Brulé signed a one-year contract with the KHL club Awtomobilist Yekaterinburg . For Awtomobilist he scored 10 goals and 5 assists in 44 KHL games before he was signed by KHL Medveščak Zagreb in July 2015 . In October 2016, his current contract in Zagreb was terminated and Brulé moved to Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk .

Before the 2017/18 season, Brulé was signed by HK Tractor Chelyabinsk , but handed over to Kunlun Red Star in early September 2017 in exchange for Richard Gynge . In September 2018 he completed a try-out with the Calgary Flames , but received no contract in the NHL and therefore returned to the KHL, this time to HK Sibir Novosibirsk .

International

With the Canadian national team , Brulé won the U-18 Junior World Cup in 2004 . In the same year he reached the silver medal in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge with his country . The attacker made his debut for the senior national team at the 2018 Winter Olympics , where he won the bronze medal with the team that competed without NHL players.

Achievements and Awards

2004 Jim Piggott Memorial Trophy 2004 CHL All-Rookie Team 2005 CHL Top Prospects Game 2005 WHL West First All-Star Team 2005 CHL Second All-Star Team 2005 Daryl K. (Doc) Seaman Trophy

2005 CHL Scholastic Player of the Year 2006 WHL Playoff MVP 2006 President's Cup win with the Vancouver Giants 2006 WHL West Second All-Star Team 2006 Memorial Cup All-Star Team 2006 Ed Chynoweth Trophy

International

• 2004 silver medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
• 2004 Top scorer in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
• 2004 Best scorer in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
• 2004 gold medal at the U-18 Junior World Cup
• 2018 bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games

NHL statistics

Status: end of the 2013/14 season

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	8th	299	43	52	95	156
Playoffs	1	12	2	1	3	0

Web links

Commons : Gilbert Brulé  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gilbert Brulé at legendsofhockey.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ZSC Lions bring on Canadian NHL striker Gilbert Brulé. In: aargauerzeitung.ch. August 3, 2012, accessed September 8, 2015 . 
2. ↑ ZSC Lions terminate contract with Gilbert Brûlé - Southeastern Switzerland. In: suedostschweiz.ch. October 23, 2012, accessed September 8, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Coyotes Brule declines demotion, likely retiring . Toronto Sun . January 1, 2014. Accessed January 1, 2014.
4. ↑ hc-avto.ru: "ЗА" АВТОМОБИЛИСТ "СЫГРАЕТ ФОРВАРД ИЗ НХЛ" (Russian, May 12, 2014, accessed July 3, 2014)
5. ↑ Jared Clinton: NHL retiree Gilbert Brule signs one-year deal with KHL's Zagreb. (No longer available online.) In: thehockeynews.com. July 20, 2015, archived from the original on September 6, 2015 ; accessed on September 8, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ^ Brule is leaving, new arrivals announced. In: medvescak.com. October 12, 2016. Retrieved October 18, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Oscar Appelgren: Lakers profiles clear for ny klubb. In: vxonews.se. September 5, 2017. Retrieved September 13, 2017 (Swedish).