Draft:Bayley Kubara

Bayley Kubara (born September 12, 1998 in Wombarra) is a professional Australian ice hockey player currently playing in Germany for ECW Sande. . During the Australian season, he is a captain of the CBR Brave (since 2017), Kubara is also a member of the Australian national team.

Career
Bayley Kubara began his professional ice hockey career with the Sydney Ice Dogs, for whom he played seven games in the 2015–16 season  , before moving to the United States and continuing his junior career with the Utah Outliers in the Western States Hockey League  . From 2016 to 2022 he played for the CBR Brave in the Australian Ice Hockey League. While with them, he won the AIHL's Rookie of the Year title in 2016 and two Australian championship titles in the form of the Goodall Cup in 2018 and 2022.

After spending the Australian summers with the Utah Outliers from 2016 to 2017, he played with the Philadelphia Junior Flyers  of the Eastern Hockey League  in the 2017-18 season and then captained the North Carolina Golden Bears in the 2018-19 season , before choosing Albertus Magnus College for the 2019/20 season on scholarship. His first professional season began in Poland at Naprzód Janów, where he led his team in scoring as a defenseman with 18 points in 16 games  . He returned to the CBR Brave for the 2021/22 season and was named assistant captain. The club won the championship this year for the second time in four years. After the title, he returned to Europe for a second season, this time to Finnish club Karhu HT in Suomi-sarja. The Australian has been under contract with the German fourth division club ECW Sande   in the regional ice hockey league since the end of August 2023.

Internationally
At junior level, Kubara played for Australia at the 2015 Division IIB U18 World Junior Championship and, after relegation in 2016, in Division IIIA , where he contributed to direct promotion as one of the team captains. At the U20 World Championships, Kubara represented the country three more times in 2016, 2017 and 2018 , being named Division II assistant captain in 2016 and Division III captain in 2017.

Kubara was most recently a member of the men's national team at the 2023 Division II World Championships in Spain

Achievements and awards

 * 2017 AIHL Rookie of the Year
 * 2018 Goodall Cup win with the CBR Brave
 * 2022 Goodall Cup win with the CBR Brave