Bulis

AB Habman · Guru

Bulis

Saku11 · Senior Member

AB Habman wrote:

Have a feeling that he'll emerge into a solid first liner and score career high numbers with Canucks. He has all the tools and Canucks will let him use them.

What we should have done.......he is a solid scorer and Defensive foward

macneil · Guru

and what 1 of the top 4 wingers we have now would you replace with him , ryder and higgins are better players , kovy and sammy are better players , he didnt want to play on the 3rd-4th line , he had chances to take a top line spot but performed good for a stretch then bad for a stretch . hes a 3rd line player who wants 1st line minutes .

ray · Senior Member

i don't know about a top two line player but definetly a solid third line player who is going to bite us in the behind for letting him go. The guy can skate and thats what this new nhl is about, isn't it. Jan may not have the hands, but I've seen this guy play since his OHL days and I can't help but believe we lost a good one in him.

Muller93 · Guru

The letting of Bulis go may turn my pro Gainey into negatives. For now, I will assume Gainey knows something...but I don't know man???

wright · Veteran Member

Muller93 wrote:

The letting of Bulis go may turn my pro Gainey into negatives. For now, I will assume Gainey knows something...but I don't know man???

Bulis is a solid third line guy who thinks he is top 6 forward material. Time and again he would kill plays his teammates were trying to build in the offensive zone. Bulisd does not protect the puck well, and absolutely refuses to take a hit to make a play. He lacks a goal scorers finishing touch around the net. During his tenure in Montreal he periodically got a chance to play on the first or second line and just could not bury his countless opportunites.

Bulis has great wheels, and was at his best when he played with Juneau and Dackell and was given the task of forechecking and having Juneau and Dackell hang back and cut off space in the neutreal zone, it was a good checking line. They did not create many goal scoring chances but they did their job very well. Bulis scored 20 last year (a career high) at age 28 and suddenly believed that he is a goal scorer, he is not. He is not superior to Sammy,Ryder,Higgins,Kovalev as a scorer, so top minutes on the top two lines is not realistic. Gainey could not give Bulis what he wanted: a difference maker on the top two lines. Johnson will give the Habs the same offensive production and not complain about his role, something Bulis could not accept. If Bulis was such a valuable commodity, certainly teams would have made him a priority signing, there was no bidding war for him because he is not an elite player.