Jiří Bubla (born January 27, 1950) is a Czech former professional

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. Bubla played his entire

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career with the

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, beginning in

1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C. ...

. He retired after the 1985–86 season. He is the father of

Jiří Šlégr Jiří Šlégr (; born 30 May 1971) is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman, and was a member of the 2001–02 Detroit Red Wings Stanley Cup championship team after being acquired in a late-season trade. Šlégr was inducted into th ...

, who is also an ice hockey player. He completed for Czechoslovakia at the

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, where the teams won the silver medal, and at the

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. Following his retirement from ice hockey, he was arrested at the 1987 IIHF World Championship in

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and charged with involvement in a drug trafficking ring. Convicted of smuggling four kilograms of heroin out of Pakistan into Canada via Austria, he served five years in prison in Austria.

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bubla, Jiri 1950 births Living people Czech ice hockey defencemen Czechoslovak ice hockey defencemen Olympic ice hockey players for Czechoslovakia Olympic medalists in ice hockey Olympic silver medalists for Czechoslovakia Ice hockey players at the 1976 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 1980 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1976 Winter Olympics Undrafted National Hockey League players HC Litvínov players HC Sparta Praha players Vancouver Canucks players Drug traffickers Ice hockey people from Ústí nad Labem Czechoslovak expatriate sportspeople in Canada Czech expatriate ice hockey players in Canada Czechoslovak expatriate ice hockey people Czech prisoners and detainees Sportspeople convicted of crimes