Career
He was drafted by Panthers as their eighth-round pick, #234 overall, in the 2000 National Hockey League Entry Draft. Sprukts has played two seasons of hockey in North America, then three seasons in Europe with Odense Bulldogs, ASK Group (a software company)/Ogre, Hong Kong Rīga 2000, HPK. In 2006 he returned to North America, where he signed with the Florida Panthers. He started the 2006/2007 season in Panthers farmclub AHL team Rochester Americans.
In October 2006, after 4 games in AHL, he was called up to the Florida Panthers.
On 20 October he played his first National Hockey League game against the Philadelphia Flyers, but on 21 December, playing against the New York Rangers, recorded his first point in the National Hockey League. On April 6, 2007, Jānis scored his first career National Hockey League goal against Marc Denis and the Tampa Bay Lightning in a Panthers 7-2 victory. In 2009 he left North America and then played in the KHL for Dinamo Riga and CSKA Moscow.