Before “Motorist » Stéphane Da Costa announced on social networks that he would play for the France team at the 2024 World Hockey Championship.
The tournament will take place in Prague from May 10 to 26. The French team will play in a group with the teams of the United States, Germany, Sweden, Slovakia, Latvia, Kazakhstan and Poland. Several European teams have refused to call up hockey players playing in KHL clubs.
— Hockey isn’t over yet. The World Cup with the French team is coming soon,” Da Costa wrote on the social network.
Da Costa played 72 games with Avtomobilist in the KHL regular season and playoffs and scored 64 points (24 goals + 40 assists). The Yekaterinburg team ended its performance in the Gagarin Cup in the semifinals, losing to Metallurg Magnitogorsk in seven matches.
Previously, the IIHF extended the suspension of the national teams of Russia and Belarus from international competitions for the 2024/25 season. Russian teams are no longer allowed to participate in tournaments under the auspices of the IIHF starting in 2022.
Source : MatchTV
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