MOSCOW, Sep 20, Andrey Senchenko. National Hockey League (NHL) club The Philadelphia Flyers may terminate the contract with Russian goaltender Ivan Fedotov, NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said. On Tuesday, a preliminary hearing was held in the Vsevolozhsk City Court of the Leningrad Region on Fedotov's lawsuit against the St. Petersburg draft board. Fedotov dropped the lawsuit.
«Yes, the Flyers» may terminate the contract with Fedotov. And it doesn't have to be a decision before the end of the season,» Daley said, when asked if the Flyers would be affected by Fedotov's decision to withdraw the lawsuit.
In the summer, employees of the military registration and enlistment office detained 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 rookie contract with Philadelphia. 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.