The WC bronze medalist at the age of 27 has come to think about continuing his career | sportazinas.com

Karlis Chukste | Photo: Eddy Palen/LETA

Medium “Hokejazinas.com” reports that the hockey player is from Latvia Karl Chukste At the age of 27, he could end his professional career.

According to “Hokejazinas.com”, Chukste himself has not rejected such speeches. “He does not confirm or deny that it is really possible to end his career at the age of 27,” the media wrote. The main reason for thinking about the end of a hockey player’s career is that the defender has not received a suitable contract offer.

Also, the portal notes that Chuktem already has other ideas in the plan for implementation, if he is really decided for the end of his career. Education has been one of Chukste’s priorities in his career. Meanwhile, the defender is still healthy and can join any team at any time.

27-year-old Čukste, together with Mika Indraši, helped the team enter the Swedish Hockey League (SHL) in the last season as part of “Brynas”. Chukste participated in 49 games of the regular tournament, where he stood out with 13 assists, 18 penalty minutes and a positive efficiency coefficient of +18. At the same time, in 13 “Allsvenskan” playoff games, the Latvian defender scored one goal, two assists, four penalty minutes and a positive creator +/- of +3.

In the season before he went to Sweden, Čukste became the hero of the Czech Republic as a member of “Ocelari” from Tršinec. Before joining the Czech club, Čukste played for the Finnish team Lahti “Pelicans”, Riga “Dinamo” and “Mogo”/LSPA, and in North America he played for the USHL league club Chicago “Steel”, four seasons – for the Quinnipiac University Team in the National Collegiate Sports Association (NCAA), and also for a short time in the Orlando Solar Bears of the ECHL and Barracuda San Jose of the American Hockey League (AHL).

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