Kučera recalls how expert reinforcements “from retirement” helped Motor last year when they took the team to extra-league bronze. Among them was Vondrka. “After a year where he didn’t play hockey at all, there were a lot of questions grades, a lot of people said, who are you pulling out of retirement again?”
For the club’s head of communication České Budějovice, it is surprising how prepared the players are, who enter the field after a long break. “I think those guys have such a great quality that it’s definitely not a pension,” he tells Vondrka and Jiří Novotný.
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However, apparently it will not return. “With these guys, it’s all about them. If they want to play, every coach would welcome these players into the team, but they still have to find the motivation to play,” Kučera told Příklep.
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