MOSCOW, May 4. Czech legionnaires goalkeeper Roman Vill and forwards Lukas Sedlak and Tomasz Ghica left the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) Traktor club and will miss the next season, Chelyabinsk general director Ivan Savin said, quoted by the team's official website. Sedlak and Ghika's contracts expired in April 2023. Villa's agreement was calculated until the end of the 2023/24 season. «It took all of our foreign players a few weeks to assess the situation in their countries and communicate with their families. Today I can say that we, together with the Czech hockey players, have decided that they will miss the next season in the KHL. The club understands their position. I just want to thank them for everything they have done for Tractor and wish them good luck,» Savin said. «Will they miss only one year? Much will depend on the current situation in the world We know that all the guys felt comfortable playing in Chelyabinsk, and we hope that this factor can play in our favor in the future,» the CEO specified. Last season, Traktor took second place in the Eastern Conference following the results of the KHL regular season and reached the semi-finals of the playoffs, where he lost to Metallurg Magnitogorsk (1-4 in the series). Ghika and Sedlak became the team's top scorers at the end of the season. Will was the main goalkeeper of «Tractor».
