St. Petersburg, Sep 20. Hockey player Ivan Fedotov dropped his lawsuit against the draft board of St. Petersburg, the Vsevolozhsk City Court of the Leningrad Region reported, where a preliminary hearing on this case was held on Tuesday. 25-year-old Fedotov in St. Petersburg. The goalkeeper, after the end of the season in the Continental Hockey League (KHL), where he played for CSKA Moscow, signed a contract with the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL). In July, lawyer Alexei Ponomarev, representing the interests of the athlete, said that Fedotov was on the territory of a military unit in the Arkhangelsk region, where he was trying to keep fit. Ponomarev said that the lawsuit contained a request to cancel the decision of the St. Petersburg draft commission on Fedotov's military service.
