An expected and necessary decision from Örebro. – Aftonbladet

One of SHL’s heaviest signings may leave after just a few months.

An expected and necessary decision from Örebro.

Derek Ryan was a love relationship was Petruzalek more like a Lars Norén-play in which everyone just went and waited for divorce.

Jakub Petruzalek, 30, is the biggest flop in SHL this autumn. By a wide margin.

He came in late. Took over Viktor Ekboms number 88, as a tribute to his dead girlfriend who was born the year, but delivered virtually nothing.

Today went Orebro out to Petruzalek leave. Orebro looks to have finally found an economical solution as they can be reasonably satisfied with.

But clearly became Petruzaleks few months at the club an expensive, both financially and sporting. A rough felrekrytering by general manager Pontus Gustafsson.

“Too bad about the club that takes him”

The experienced Czech was called in as a replacement for a wandering points machine Derek Ryan. Qualifications went there to complain about. Games in the NHL and KHL. Several World Cup tournaments and Czech champion. While Ryan took Orebro by storm, both on and off the ice has Petruzalek been the opposite.

On the ice, it has not worked. In fourteen matches, it was four points (4 + 0). Three of the goals came in the same game, at home against the bottom team Rögle.

Neither the side of it has worked.

“The biggest sweep I have met. I feel sorry for the club to take over him, “a source with good insight for me.

Now it’s rarely just one wrong. This situation is hardly an exception.

But Petruzalek ended quickly on a collision course with the coaches. Early on he was considered to be too poor physical shape to cope with the intense ice hockey Orebro want to play.

Recently, the communication between Petruzalek and coaches have been verging on nonexistent.

“Need to have a new center ‘

Star acquisition was only reversed in six of the last seventeen matches.

The infected situation has been an abscess in the locker room.

To have such an expensive and qualified players completely off the team in the long run totally unsustainable. And there is no doubt that the entire situation have affected the team negatively. Örebro has only one trepoängare in the last seven games and continues this trend risk Orebro be implicated in the bar fight.

Some of the heaviest payroll checks (Petruzalek, Lehtonen, Anttila and Viitaluoma) are those who have delivered at least in the fall.

There are Petruzalek course, the most obvious example. It works, of course, not anywhere. And certainly not if that Orebro has ambitions to be a team for the top half.

Just the lack of a first center has been clear in the fall.

To do away with Petruzalek was first step, but it is not enough. Now you have the general manager Pontus Gustafsson try to find that first the Center Petruzalek never was.

It can be harder than it was to do away with Petruzalek.