Michal Gulaši (born 18 July 1986) is a Czech professional

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...

player. He currently plays with

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 ...

in the

Czech Extraliga The Czech Extraliga ( cs, Extraliga ledního hokeje, ELH) is the highest-level ice hockey league in the Czech Republic. It was created by the 1993 split of the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League following the breakup of Czechoslovakia. The leag ...

(ELH).

Player career

Gulaši played as a youth within HC Vítkovice through to the under 18 and 20 levels before continuing his development in North America, playing major junior with the Lethbridge Hurricanes of the

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(WHL). Undrafted, Gulaši returned to his native Czech Republic with HC Vítkovice, to start his professional career in the

in the 2005–06 season. He later played with

HC Sparta Praha Hockey Club Sparta Praha, commonly known as HC Sparta Prague, is a Prague-based Czech ice hockey team playing in the Czech Extraliga. The club has won four Czech championships (most recently in 2007) and four Czechoslovak championships, as ...

from 2008 to 2011, and

HC Energie Karlovy Vary HC Energie Karlovy Vary is a professional ice hockey team based in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. They play in the highest-level national league, the Czech Extraliga. The club The history of the ice hockey in Karlovy Vary dates back to the 1932, ...

from 2011 to 2016, with a season stint in the Swedish HockeyAllsvenskan for

Södertälje SK Södertälje Sportklubb, also known as Södertälje SK and often referred to as SSK, is a Swedish professional ice hockey club playing in HockeyAllsvenskan, the second highest level of pro hockey in Sweden. Södertälje were charter members of Eli ...

. Gulaši joined his fourth Extraliga club,

for the 2016–17 season.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

References

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* 1986 births Living people BK Mladá Boleslav players Czech ice hockey defencemen HC Kometa Brno players Lethbridge Hurricanes players Södertälje SK players AZ Havířov players HC Sparta Praha players HC Vítkovice players HC Karlovy Vary players Sportspeople from Ostrava Czech expatriate ice hockey players in Canada Czech expatriate ice hockey players in Sweden {{CzechRepublic-icehockey-defenceman-stub