The Motor coaches decided on the first staff reduction for the extra-league season 2020/2021. None of the try-out players attracted them enough during the forced shortening of the camp to win a place in the squad. Some of the juniors were sent back to the youth team. On the contrary, the situation regarding the possibility of using goalkeeper Jiří Patera is developing hopefully.
Before the ordered quarantine, the České Budějovice trainers were divided into two groups, where there were over forty hockey players in the team. Training matches were also part of the preparatory camp. However, the coaches had to reduce the high number of players in the advanced stage of preparation, when the start of the extra league is approaching.
Klhůfek, Vopelka, Ville ends
Even in this year’s preparation, Motor used the possibility of try-outs. This time, none of the tested hockey players attracted the coaches enough to get an engagement for the extra-league season. Defender Marek Baránek and attackers Pavel Klhůfek, Lukáš Vopelka and Malo Ville failed the test and end up in Motor. “They all came to the training physically prepared, in the case of Baránek, Klhůfek and Vopelka they were players with extra-league experience. We are glad that they created a competitive environment for us. But there was a clear agreement that he had to lose the players in his positions in preparation, which did not happen. Unfortunately for them, the trial period was shortened by at least a week due to quarantine. But we have already had to decide on the narrowing of the staff, the staff is not inflatable, we cannot now omit anything in any day. We have to go full speed, we lost fourteen days because of the quarantine. So we decided to move on with players we know and trust, “ comments on the decision of assistant Václav Prospal Aleš Totter.
Goalkeeper Marek Dvořák, defenders Jiří Remta and Dominik Vaněk and forward Vojtěch Bárta were sent back to the junior team. “We took juniors primarily to complete the staff so that we could build two training teams. It was great for them to try it, we know about them and we will continue to watch them. They should be among the juniors’ pullers, “ communicates Totter. “It simply came to our notice then. We originally expected that we would be with us for three weeks, in the end it only became a week, but it was definitely beneficial for them as well. ” Totter is sure. Other players in the youth category continue to prepare for ČEZ Motor, completing a complete preparatory block with an A. These are the defenders of Václav Svach and the attackers Matouš Hrubec, Jakub Čížek and Martin Beránek.
Toman stays, Kondelík returns to America
And what is the situation regarding young people who work overseas and who have been preparing with the České Budějovice team? The forward Matěj Toman, who ended his career in Canada and is a Motor player, remains in the staff. Striker Jáchym Kondelík has already disconnected from the team and is returning to America next week. On the other hand, after the end of the quarantine, in which the Czech Twenties, the defender Šimon Kubíček and the forward Pavel Novák, will start the preparation of the Motor, will start.
The coaches have not yet considered their involvement with the team. However, the 21-year-old goalkeeper Jiří Patera also remains in preparation, with whom the situation is different and in which the coaches are interested. “It looks like he will fly to the US in November at the earliest. We think that we would keep it until then and there is a real chance that it would be available for matches. Not for nothing was he drafted into the NHL, overseas he has improved terribly in the passing of sticks, he is a modern active goalkeeper. It’s an option for us, the management is taking steps to use Pater, “ said Aleš Totter.
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