Vladimír Búřil Explained

Position:Defence
Height Ft:6
Height In:3
Weight Lb:212
Shoots:Left
Birth Date:17 May 1969
Birth Place:Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
(present day Slovakia)
Ntl Team:SVK
Career Start:1988
Career End:2010
Played For:HC Slovan Bratislava
Bordeaux
Wilhelmshaven-Stickhausen EC
Heilbronn Falcons
Zilina HK-SKP
Székesfehérvár
MsHK Zilina
Podhale Nowy Targ
Cracovia Krakow
TKH Torun

Vladimír Búřil (born 17 May 1969 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia)[1] is a Slovak former professional ice hockey player. Buril played with HC Slovan Bratislava in the Slovak Extraliga.[2] Buril retired after the 2009–10 season. He is an uncle of a Canadian ice dancer, Andrew Poje.

Playing career

Buril turned professional in 1998 with HC Slovan Bratislava. He would play eleven seasons in total with Slovan Bratislava during his career. In 1994, Buril transferred to France to play for Bordeaux for two seasons. He then returned to Slovan Bratislava, where he played until the 2000/01 season, when he was transferred to EC Wilhelmshaven-Stickhausen of the Germany 2 league for the season. Buril played three further seasons in the Germany2 league, for Heilbronner Falken. Buril returned to the Slovakian league in 2004 to play for MsHK Zilina. 2005/06 was with Székesfehérvár of the IEL, then back to Zilina in 06/07 before being transferred to Podhale Nowy Targ of Poland, which won the Polish championship. In 2007/08, Buril joined the Polish TKH Torun team, but was transferred mid-season to Cracovia Krakow where he was for the second time a member of a Polish championship squad. Buril returned to TKH Torun in 2008 for two further seasons.

Buril played internationally for Czechoslovakia in the 1989 World Junior championship. He played for Slovakia in the 1994 Winter Olympics.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

Team League GP GPG A Pts PIM
1987–88HC Slovan BratislavaTCH31 0 4 4
1988–89HC Slovan BratislavaTCH33 2 0 2 28
1989–90HC Slovan BratislavaSVK.2
1990–91HC Slovan BratislavaTCH25 3 10 13 24
1991–92HC Slovan BratislavaTCH31 3 3 6 16
1992–93HC Slovan BratislavaTCH30 3 2 5
1993–94HC Slovan BratislavaSVK41 8 7 15
1994–95Aquitains de BordeauxFRA.2
1995–96Dogues de BordeauxFRA.2
1996–97HC Slovan BratislavaSVK42 4 11 15 46
1997–98HC Slovan BratislavaSVK44 4 5 9 26
1998–99HC Slovan BratislavaSVK42 2 9 11 87
1999–2000HC Slovan BratislavaSVK43 2 1 3 60
2000–01HC Slovan BratislavaSVK5 1 1 2 2
2000–01EC Wilhelmshaven-StickhausenGER.242 15 19 34 77 5 2 0 2 4
2001–02Heilbronner ECGER.252 7 22 29 76 5 1 0 1 2
2002–03Heilbronner ECGER.251 12 21 33 48 4 0 1 1 2
2003–04Heilbronner FalkenGER.244 5 12 17 84
2004–05MsHK ŽilinaSVK35 5 5 10 24 5 0 0 0 4
2005–06Alba Volán-FeVitaIEHL24 6 3 9 58 8 2 0 2 16
2005–06Alba Volán-FeVitaHUN10 2 5 7 6 8 0 5 5 6
2006–07MsHK Žilina a.sSVK18 1 0 1 20
2006–07Podhale Nowy TargPOL33 4 9 13 20
2007–08THK TorunPOL37 11 17 28 64
2007–08MKS Cracovia SSAPOL16 3 3 6 30
2008–09THK TorunPOL42 10 9 19 60
2009–10THK TorunPOL42 6 8 14 38
TCH totals 150111930
SVK totals 27027396626550004
GER.2 totals 1893974113285143148

International

YearTeamEventGPGAPtsPIM
1989CzechoslovakiaWJC7 0 2 2 8
1994SlovakiaOG4 0 0 0 0
Senior totals40000

Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418075319/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bu/vladimir-buril-1.html Profile at Sports-Reference.com
  2. http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/display_players.php?tmi=4989 All-time roster for the Bratislava Slovan HC