Photo: Czech Olympic Committee
Silver with twenty, bronze with Dynamo. But not even the precious metal ensured Radi Rulík’s continuation in the charged Pardubice team. By the 101st season, East Bohemia will be led by another experienced coach who collected medals in large numbers. Václav Varaďa.
At this time last year, Pardubice paid a hefty severance fee to Mladá Boleslav in order to acquire one of the best coaches in the Czech extra league. Radim Rulík then accepted the challenge and fulfilled his high ambitions. In addition to the cup for the winner of the regular season, his team also won third place.
But such a season was apparently not enough for the ambitious Dynamo, and Radim Rulík is saying goodbye. And the replacement for him is more than interesting.
Photo: Twitter HC Dynamo Pardubice
Václav Varaďa will follow up the cooperation with several former partners in Pardubice.
In autumn, his name was inflected in connection with Bern or Sparta. However, Switzerland eventually fell and the Prague club decided to take a different route.
“It is essential for me to be myself, to act and behave naturally, to have humility, healthy respect and self-confidence. We know that hockey is a team game. The team always comes first for me, and I believe that team success is the absolute goal that unites people,” he outlined his vision for Varaď at the time.
“It is essential to be yourself, to act and behave naturally, to have humility, healthy respect and self-confidence.”
“The coach must co-decide with the sports department and the owner about the composition of the A-team, the arrival of players and their contracts. It is a team effort in which the coach should have a strong say. Only then can he truly bear responsibility for the results,” he also explained why the negotiations did not work out.
A hundred kilometers further east, however, after a one-year break from training, he has already agreed on a new job. David Musil, David Cienciala, Daniel Rákos and above all former assistant at Zlaté Třinec Marek Zadina know him well in the Pardubice team.
“The coach must co-decide on the composition of the team, the arrivals of players and their contracts.”
Even so, this coaching change is surprising. Rulík had signed a long-term contract with Dynamo, and the club officially did not mind his coaching engagement with the junior national team, which he led to the finals at the World Cup.
HC Dynamo Pardubice | Photo: Ladislav Adámek, hcdynamo.cz
But he did not succeed in Pardubice. De facto by one goal, which Dynamo missed in the seventh semi-final match.
At the same time, the owner Petr Dědek also saw the mistakes of the implementation team as one of the reasons for the elimination, as he described in an interview on iDnes.cz.
“We had a very strong team with quality goalkeepers, we avoided injuries, the team had all the conditions to succeed. Everyone has to bear their share of responsibility. We are ambitious owners and we always want maximum success, unfortunately this time it didn’t work out, although I have to repeat that the season as a whole was successful.” described for the Young Front DNES.
“The team had all the conditions to succeed. Everyone has to bear their share of responsibility.”
“I told the coaches many times during the season to do something with the power play. Special formations didn’t work for us at all. But if you tell them five times ten times, and they still build it the same way, it’s hard. It’s their responsibility and they have to bear it now,” Dědek didn’t take the napkin.
And in the same interview on Monday, May 1, he claimed: “There are currently no changes on the Dynamo bench.”
However, the situation developed differently, and Varaďa can therefore count on a strong team in Pardubice – and also strong pressure to advance to the finals.
Photo: Lukáš Filipec, hcocelari.cz
He and Třinec managed to do this four times in a row.
When Václav Varaďa decided to quit, rest and look for a new challenge, he spent his time recording podcasts, for a while he helped with the training of the second-league Tábor and mainly he studied abroad, specifically with the New Jersey Devils with Patrik Eliáš.
The former coach of the Czech national team will now replace the current one, who is said to be a future candidate for the adult national team. And this despite the fact that Kari Jalonen has a valid contract until the end of the next season, which will end with the home world championships in Prague and Ostrava.
“I read some speculation that Radim Rulík should go to the national team, but that’s nonsense,” said Dědek for the already quoted iDnes.cz.
“Radim Rulík to the senior national team? This is nonsense.’
But this coaching change is an interesting signal. And it means that third place was not enough for Pardubice. That is also why they kept the trio of reinforcements Sedlák-Hyka-Will, whose contracts they had to terminate in Chelyabinsk. Now they have insured them until 2028.
On the other hand, Richard Král, who worked on the Dynamo bench since November 2020, is leaving the club. He will be replaced by Aleš Krátoška on the bench in the role of assistant. With Marko Zadina and Václav Varaďa, they will follow up on last year’s golden season, when they worked together in Třinec.
Apart from the departing hockey players Matýs and Frodl, the Pardubice owner has signed contracts with all members of the current squad. In addition, Dynamo is interested in the possibility of bringing Tomáš Nosko or Martin Kaut to the extra league, who confirmed that if he does not receive a one-way contract from the NHL, his return will become a reality.
However, Pardubice fans still have to wait for possible player reinforcements.
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2023-05-03 14:21:00
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