Career
Bubla played his entire National Hockey League career with the Vancouver Canucks, beginning in 1982. He retired after the 1985-1986 season. He is the father of Jiří Šlégrade
Following his retirement from hockey, he was arrested at the 1987 IIHF World Championship in Vienna and charged with involvement in a drug trafficking ring.
Convicted of smuggling four kilograms of heroin, he served nearly four years in an Austrian jail.
