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Coach Otakar Vejvoda Jr., who completed two successful playoffs for the extra league with the Knights, left the Kladno hockey players after two years. The club of playing owner Jaromír Jágr also announced seven player departures on the website.
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In the hockey extra league, the penultimate Kladno Knights hosted the champion – Oceláře Třinec. | Photo: Photo: Roman Mareš
Vejvoda, a native of Klagenfurt, returned to the club the year before last after 26 years and a stint in Sweden. In both seasons under his leadership, the Knights finished in the last 14th place in the regular season, then each time they successfully defended extra league membership in the tie after winning 4:0 matches over the best first league teams Zlín and this year Vsetín. Along with the world champion from Vienna 1996, assistant Pavel Skrbek also finished Vejvoda.
The club, which saved itself in the play-off for the third year in a row, is also leaving goalkeepers Landon Bow and Mareks Mitens, defenders Jake Dotchin, Chris Martenet, Ondřej Slováček and Jakub Babka, who alternately played in the attack as well, and experienced forward Jakub Klepiš.
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Kladno currently has 12 hockey players on its roster goalkeeper No. 1 Adam Brízgala, who experienced a successful return in the play-off after his injury in December, where he conceded eight times in four matches and had a success rate of 93.4 percent. Canadian Bow leaves Central Bohemia after three years. In the first season of 2021/22, he played in all 56 games of the regular season and with 3,298 intercepted minutes, he became the extra-league record holder. Latvian Mitens joined the club in January after Brízgal’s injury.
Among the four continuing defenders is the representative Jiří Ticháček, who was the most productive back in the regular season with 43 points for 13 goals and 30 assists extra league.
Captain Radek Smoleňák, who returned to Kladno last October after more than 12 years, remains at the parent club. The soon-to-be 40-year-old Klepiš, world champion from 2010, ends in Kladno after two seasons.
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“The continuation of the remaining players from last year’s squad is subject to ongoing negotiations. The names of players with newly concluded contracts will be presented in the coming days,” the club said.
In the next year, the fifty-two-year-old playing owner could also appear on the ice again in the Kladno jersey Jagrwho said in an interview with CNN Prima News before the play-off that he wants to prepare as best as possible for his last season.
