Oskars Bārtulis

Oskars Bārtulis
Date of birth	January 21, 1987
place of birth	Ogre , Latvian SSR
size	188 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	defender
number	# 3
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2005 , 3rd round, 91st position Philadelphia Flyers
Career stations
until 2003	Prizma '83 Riga
2003-2004	HK CSKA Moscow
2004-2006	Moncton Wildcats
2006-2007	Cape Breton Screaming Eagles
2007-2009	Philadelphia Phantoms
2009–2012	Philadelphia Flyers Adirondack Phantoms
2012-2014	HK Donbass Donetsk
2014-2015	Barys Astana
2015-2017	Admiral Vladivostok
2017-2018	Salawat Yulayev Ufa
2018-2019	Kunlun Red Star
since 2019	Dinamo Riga

Oskars Bārtulis (born January 21, 1987 in Ogre , Latvian SSR ) is a Latvian ice hockey player who has been playing for Dinamo Riga in the Continental Hockey League since October 2019 .

Career

Oskars Bārtulis began his career as a hockey player at Prizma '83 Riga , for which he was active from 2001 to 2003 in the Latvian Ice Hockey League and Division B of the East European Hockey League . The 2002/03 season, however, ended the defender at Vilki Riga in the Latvian ice hockey league .

For the 2003/04 season he received a contract with HK CSKA Moscow , but was only used for its second team in the Pervaya League , the third Russian division. The left shooter then moved to the Canadian junior league Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec , in which he was on the ice from 2004 to 2007 for the Moncton Wildcats and Cape Breton Screaming Eagles . With the Moncton Wildcats he won the Coupe du Président in the 2005/06 season .

In the summer of 2007, Bārtulis was divided into the roster of their farm team by the Philadelphia Flyers , who had already selected him in the NHL Entry Draft 2005 in the third round as the 91st player . After he played exclusively for the Philadelphia Phantoms in the American Hockey League in the following two years , he made his debut in the National Hockey League for the Flyers in the 2009/10 season after spending the season with their new AHL farm team Adirondack Phantoms had started. After another nine NHL games, Bārtulis received a contract extension for three years with the Flyers in early December 2009.

In late June 2012, the Flyers bought out of the current contract with Bārtulis after he had played exclusively for the Phantoms in the AHL in the 2011/12 season.

Between 2012 and 2014 Bārtulis was under contract with HK Donbass Donetsk in the Continental Hockey League and was one of the team's most consistent defenders. During this time he also won the IIHF Continental Cup with Donbass . After the 2013/14 season, the club withdrew from the game due to the crisis in Ukraine and Bārtulis was initially without a contract before he was signed by Barys Astana in mid-September 2014 .

Between 2015 and December 2017, Bārtulis was part of Admiral Vladivostok's squad, where he held the position of team captain, before being handed over to Salawat Yulayev Ufa in December 2017 .

In the 2018/19 season he was initially unemployed before he was signed by Kunlun Red Star from the KHL in November 2018 and played 15 games for the Chinese club by the end of the main round. He returned to Latvia in summer 2019 and has been playing for Dinamo Riga since October 2019 .

International

For Latvia , Bārtulis took part in the U18 Junior B World Championships in 2003 and 2004 and the U20 Junior B World Championships in 2004 , 2005 and 2007 . He was also part of the Latvian squad at the U20 Junior World Championship in 2006 and the World Championships in 2005 and 2009 .

Achievements and Awards

• 2005 CHL Top Prospects Game
• 2005 LHJMQ All-Rookie Team
• 2005 CHL All-Rookie Team
• 2006 Coupe du Président win with the Moncton Wildcats
• 2007 LHJMQ Second All-Star Team
• 2013 IIHF-Continental-Cup -Win with HK Donbass Donetsk
• 2016 KHL All-Star Game

International

• 2005 Promotion to the top division at the U20 Junior World Championship of Division I.
• 2007 Best Defender of the U20 World Junior Championship, Division I, Group A.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2004/05	Moncton Wildcats	LHJMQ		62	5	19th	24	55		12	1	1	2	16
2005/06	Moncton Wildcats	LHJMQ		54	6th	25th	31	84		21st	1	9	10	22nd
2006/07	Cape Breton Screaming Eagles	LHJMQ		55	13	35	48	52		16	3	9	12	24
2007/08	Philadelphia Phantoms	AHL		57	1	20th	21st	42		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Philadelphia Phantoms	AHL		80	2	11	13	59		4th	0	0	0	4th
2009/10	Adirondack Phantoms	AHL		12	2	2	4th	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		53	1	8th	9	28		7th	0	0	0	4th
2010/11	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		13	0	0	0	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Adirondack Phantoms	AHL		4th	0	1	1	2		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Adirondack Phantoms	AHL		36	1	10	11	20th		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	HK Donbass Donetsk	KHL		40	3	4th	7th	88		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	HK Donbass Donetsk	KHL		50	2	6th	8th	28		11	1	3	4th	14th
2014/15	Barys Astana	KHL		50	1	6th	7th	54		7th	0	0	0	2
LHJMQ total				171	24	79	103	187		49	5	19th	24	62
AHL total				189	6th	44	50	137		4th	0	0	0	4th
NHL overall				66	1	8th	9	32		7th	0	0	0	4th
KHL total				140	6th	17th	23	170		18th	1	3	4th	16

International

year	team	event		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2003	Latvia	U18 World Cup		5	1	3	4th	6th
2004	Latvia	U18 World Cup		5	3	2	5	16
2004	Latvia	U20 World Cup		5	2	2	4th	12
2005	Latvia	U20 World Cup		5	1	6th	7th	6th
2005	Latvia	WM		1	0	0	0	2
2006	Latvia	U20 World Cup		3	0	0	0	0
2007	Latvia	U20 World Cup		5	0	7th	7th	6th
2009	Latvia	WM		4th	0	0	0	0
2010	Latvia	Olympia		4th	0	0	0	2
2012	Latvia	WM		6th	1	2	3	2
2014	Latvia	Olympia		5	1	0	1	0
Juniors overall				28	7th	20th	27	46
Men overall				20th	2	2	4th	6th

( 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

• Oskars Bārtulis at eurohockey.com
• Oskars Bārtulis at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Senators vs. Flyers - 11/12/2009 - Boxscore . Philadelphia Flyers . November 12, 2009. Retrieved August 31, 2012.
2. ^ Adam Kimmelman: Bartulis didn't need long to impress Flyers staff . NHL.com. December 7, 2009. Retrieved August 31, 2012.
3. ↑ Ben Rothenberg: Bought Out Like the Wolf: Goodbye, Oskars Bartulis , Broad Street Hockey. June 30, 2012. Retrieved August 31, 2012.