Roberts Bukarts

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Roberts Bukarts
Date of birth June 27, 1990
place of birth Jūrmala , Latvian SSR
size 184 cm
Weight 83 kg
position striker
Shot hand Left
Draft
KHL Junior Draft 2009 , 1st round, 13th position
Dinamo Riga
Career stations
until 2006 SK Riga 20
2006-2007 HK Riga 2000
2007-2008 SK Riga 18
2008-2009 Krylya Sovetov Moscow
2009-2015 Dinamo Riga
2015-2018 HC Zlín
2018-2019 HC Oceláři Třinec
2019 HC Sparta Prague
2019-2020 HC Vítkovice Steel
since 2020 Severstal Cherepovets

Roberts Bukarts (born June 27, 1990 in Jūrmala , Latvian SSR ) is a Latvian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Severstal Tscherepowez in the Continental Hockey League since May 2020 . His brother Rihards is also a hockey player.

Career

Roberts Bukarts began his career as a hockey player with SK Riga 20 , for which he made his debut in the Latvian Ice Hockey League in the 2005/06 season . After a year at HK Riga 2000 , in which he won the Latvian championship with the club , Bukarts completed in the 2007/08 season for SK Riga 18 both games for their U18 juniors, as well as their second division team. He was also active for a junior team in Texas.

In the 2008/09 season Bukarts was in Russia with Krylja Sowetow Moscow from the second-rate Wysschaja Liga under contract, for which he scored a total of 17 scorer points, including eleven goals, in 44 games. In the summer of 2009 he was selected in the first round of the KHL Junior Draft in 13th place by Dinamo Riga , who thus secured his transfer rights. A few weeks later they signed him for the 2009/10 season .

With Dinamo he took part in the Spengler Cup 2011 , the top scorer of which was Bukarts with six points.

Roberts Bukarts (left) and his brother Rihards in the penalty box (2017)

In 2013 he won the Nadezhda Cup with Dinamo Riga , the trophy of the consolation round of the KHL. He was personally named the best goalscorer and top scorer of this cup competition and then the best striker. Between 2013 and 2015, Bukarts was also used at HK Liepājas Metalurgs , HK Liepāja and Dinamo-Juniors Riga in parallel to the KHL game and took third place in the Latvian championship with HK Liepāja in 2015. In October 2015 Bukarts left the Latvian club and switched to HC Zlín , for whom he played in the Czech extra league until 2018 . In the 2017/18 season he was the best non-Czech player in the Extraliga with 49 points. He was also the team's internal top scorer in two of the three seasons at HC Zlín. At the beginning of the 2017/18 season he played with his brother Rihards at HC Zlín.

In June 2018 he left HC Zlín and was signed by HC Oceláři Třinec , for whom he played 33 Extraliga games by January 2019. He was also used in the 2018/19 Champions Hockey League (2 assists) and the 2018 Spengler Cup . On January 24, 2019, HC Sparta Prague and the club from Třinec agreed to swap players, with Sparta's long-time captain Petr Vrána moving to Třinec and Bukarts to Sparta. In June 2019, the Latvian international was loaned to HC Vítkovice Steel by Sparta , for whom he scored 42 points in 47 games. This made him the top scorer of his team and one of the ten strikers with the highest points in the Extraliga. In May 2020 he moved to the Continental Hockey League for Severstal Tscherepowez .

International

For Latvia, Bukarts took part in the junior division of the U18 World Junior Championships in Division I in 2006 and 2008 , when he was the top scorer of the tournament, as well as the U18 World Junior Championships in the top division in 2007 .

For the U20 national team , he played at the Junior World Championships in 2009 and 2010 , each in the top division, with the U20 selection reaching eighth place in 2009 and relegation to Division I in 2010 with ninth place.

Bukarts played his first men's international game for the Latvian national ice hockey team on April 3, 2009 against Germany , and he scored his first international goal for the men against France about a year later .

In the senior sector, Bukarts was in his country's squad for the first time at the 2011 World Cup . Also in 2012 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 and 2018 he played for Latvia in the top division of the World Cup. At the 2018 World Cup, he led the Latvian national team onto the ice as the team captain.

Bukarts had completed 114 international matches in total by February 2019, in which he collected 68 scorer points.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

( 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 )

Club competitions

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2004/05 Riga / Saga / LB 89 U18 Latvia 11 8th 19th 2
2005/06 Riga / Saga / LB 89 U18 Latvia 39 30th 69
2005/06 SK Riga 20 Latvia 3 3 6th 2
2006/07 HK Riga 2000 Latvia 7th 1 0 1 2
2006/07 Riga / Saga / LB 18 U18 Latvia 50 51 101 34
2007/08 SK Riga 18 1st League 5 9 7th 16 8th
2007/08 SK Riga 18 U18 Latvia 8th 20th 11 31 18th
2007/08 Texas Attack Midget AAA 55 63 52 115 42
2008/09 Krylya Sovetov Moscow Vysschaya League 44 11 6th 17th 12 - - - - -
2009/10 Dinamo Riga KHL 32 3 4th 7th 4th 3 1 0 1 0
2009/10 Dinamo Juniors Riga Extraliga (BLR) 18th 13 10 23 12 - - - - -
2010/11 Dinamo Riga KHL 43 4th 2 6th 8th 3 0 0 0 0
2010/11 HK Riga MHL 43 12 21st 14th 6th 3 3 2 5 2
2011/12 Dinamo Riga KHL 26th 3 3 6th 0 7th 0 0 0 4th
2011/12 HK Riga MHL 15th 11 5 16 22nd 5 4th 2 6th 2
2012/13 Dinamo Riga KHL 18th 3 0 3 8th - - - - -
2012/13 HK Liepājas Metalurgs Extraliga (BLR) 14th 6th 4th 10 4th - - - - -
2013/14 Dinamo Riga KHL 37 4th 8th 12 14th 6th 1 3 4th 4th
2013/14 Dinamo Juniors Riga Latvia 1 0 1 1 0
2014/15 Dinamo Riga KHL 43 6th 8th 14th 16 - - - - -
2014/15 HK Liepāja Latvia 6th 7th 4th 11 0
2015/16 Dinamo Riga KHL 7th 2 0 2 0 - - - - -
2015/16 PSG Zlín Extraliga (CZ) 36 19th 12 31 12 10 2 5 7th 4th
2016/17 PSG Zlin Extraliga (CZ) 50 19th 18th 37 26th - - - - -
2017/18 HC Zlín Extraliga (CZ) 50 21st 28 49 56 4th 0 1 1 0
2018/19 HC Oceláři Třinec Extraliga (CZ) 33 5 14th 19th 10 - - - - -
2018/19 HC Sparta Prague Extraliga (CZ) 14th 2 5 7th 0 4th 0 0 0 0
2019/20 HC Vítkovice Steel Extraliga (CZ) 47 16 26th 42 42 - - - - -
KHL total 206 25th 25th 50 50 19th 2 3 5 8th

International

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM +/-
2006 Latvia U18 World Championship Div. I. 1st place 5 0 1 1 0 -1
2007 Latvia U18 World Cup Place 10 6th 1 3 4th 0 -10
2008 Latvia U18 World Championship Div. IB place 2 5 4th 3 7th 2 +6
2009 Latvia U20 World Cup 8th place 6th 4th 2 6th 10 +2
2010 Latvia U20 World Cup 9th place 6th 6th 1 7th 4th –7
2011 Latvia WM 13th place 6th 3 0 3 2 +2
2012 Latvia WM Place 10 3 0 0 0 0 0
2015 Latvia WM 13th place 7th 0 0 0 2 0
2016 Latvia WM 13th place 8th 1 3 4th 0 0
2016 Latvia Olympic qualification DNQ 3 1 0 1 0 0
2017 Latvia WM Place 10 7th 0 5 5 4th -1
2018 Latvia WM 8th place 8th 1 2 3 0 -2
Juniors overall 28 15th 10 25th 16 -10
Men overall 42 6th 10 16 8th -1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Útočná posila per Oceláře. Do Třince přichází Bukarts. In: tyden.cz. June 1, 2018, accessed March 6, 2019 (Czech).
  2. ^ Ondřej Kuchař: Extraligová bomba! Vrána jde do Třince, do Sparty míří Bukarts. In: isport.blesk.cz. January 24, 2019, accessed March 6, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Latvijas valstsvienības visu laiku rezultatīvākie spēlētāji (1991 - February 8, 2019) (PDF file)
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personal data
SURNAME Bukarts, Roberts
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Jūrmala , Latvian SSR