Sixteen players disappeared from the roster, and changes also took place in the implementation team. The coaching duo Jiří Režnar and Karel Suchánek, who took over the team last November after Jiří Šejba and David Moravec were removed from the team, will be joined by coach player and coach Tomáš Potěšil.
Former national team defender Michal Barinka will become a new member of the Porub coaching party, who has ended his playing career and will take on the role of fitness coach. “The season was really bad, we lost a lot of matches in the last minutes and if we won half of them, we would be in the playoffs,” said Režnar.
Staff are also waiting for big changes. The transfer window will open on Sunday, May 1, but Poruba has already announced in advance that, in addition to Barinka, fifteen other hockey players, including all foreigners, are finishing in the team.
The goalies Ervīns Muštukovs from Latvia and Adam Brízgala will no longer work in Poruba. Michal Houdek, a sharp Explzen defender, is returning to the extra league, and the three most productive defenders of the team, Dušan Žovinec, Šimon Szathmáry and Jakub Husa, are also leaving.
“We are trying to allow players to move to the extra league, if they receive a more interesting offer, we do not want to stand in their way,” said the club’s general manager Pavel Hinner. he did not hide the fact that he would like to get an energetic attacker permanently, but Bitten will eventually strengthen Pilsen.
“We wanted to bring a player who can play aggressive hockey and fulfill his role. Sam can play the center and the wing, in addition, he can drop his gloves, but he can also score a goal, “said Tomáš Vlasák, Škoda’s sports manager, explaining the involvement of the Canadian hockey player.
Canadian Cole Carter is also leaving the team, who failed to score a goal in seventeen games for Poruba, but his return to an extra-league team in the Czech Republic is almost certain, according to Hinner.
Tomáš Guman, the most successful foreigner of the first league, Finus Markus Korkiakoski, who will strengthen Zlín, and Radek Pořízek are also leaving Poruba. The forward Petr Stloukal is heading to Germany, the forward Marek Špaček will not work in Poruba either.
