Ivan Huml (born September 6, 1981) is a Czech professional

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player. He currently plays for

Piráti Chomutov Piráti Chomutov is a Czech ice hockey team from Chomutov, Czech Republic. Established as ČSK Chomutov in 1945, the team has played in Chomutov through numerous team name changes and elevations/relegations in the Czechoslovak and Czech hockey l ...

in the Czech fourth league. Huml was selected by the

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in the 2nd round (59th overall) of the

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and went on to play 49 regular season games for the Bruins, scoring 6 goals and 12 assists for 18 points and collecting 36 penalty minutes over three seasons between 2001 and 2004. The rest of his career has mainly been spent in Europe.

Playing career

Huml spent much of his tenure with their

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affiliate the

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. In 2004, Huml began playing in the

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with HC Rabat Kladno his hometown team. He then moved to

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with TPS before playing with

Mora IK Mora IK (or Mora Ishockeyklubb) is a Swedish professional ice hockey club from Mora in northern Dalarna. After failing the 2019 SHL qualifiers, Mora has been relegated for play in the second-tier league, HockeyAllsvenskan. Mora has previously pla ...

in Sweden's

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until 2008 when he moved to back to his home country for the 2008-2009 season to play for the HC Mountfield. In the middle of the 2009-2010 season, Mountfield rented him to the

HC Kometa Brno HC Kometa Brno ("Comet" in English) is a professional ice hockey team based in Brno, Czech Republic. They play in the Czech Extraliga. Kometa is the most successful ice hockey club in the Czech Republic with 13 Czechoslovak (and Czech) league ch ...

. He was fully transferred to HC Kometa Brno for the season 2010-2011, until in the January 2011 the team rented him to the

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team

Oulun Kärpät Oulun Kärpät (Finnish for "Oulu Ermines", sometimes referred to as Kärpät Oulu) is a Finnish professional ice hockey team based in Oulu and playing in the top-tier Finnish Liiga. Kärpät have won the Finnish championship title eight times ...

for the rest of the season. He quickly rose to be the team's first center and made a deal with Kärpät for the season 2011-2012. Huml made a two-year deal with Kärpät in January 2012. Huml ended up staying with Kärpät until the end of the 2015-2016 season, after which he left the team having won two Finnish championships followed up by an emotional bronze medal win in his last game with the team.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

External links

* 1981 births Living people Boston Bruins draft picks Boston Bruins players Czech ice hockey centres Langley Hornets players HC Kometa Brno players HC TPS players Mora IK players Motor České Budějovice players Oulun Kärpät players Piráti Chomutov players Providence Bruins players Rytíři Kladno players Ice hockey people from Kladno Czech expatriate ice hockey players in Canada Czech expatriate ice hockey players in the United States Czech expatriate ice hockey players in Finland Czech expatriate ice hockey players in Sweden {{CzechRepublic-icehockey-centre-stub