Esmantovich – about hockey player Duda’s escape from CSKA: “He was punished, lost a year of training. Today I am not ready to condemn him.

Former CSKA hockey player Artem Duda received his punishment by leaving the club with a valid contract, he lost a year of playing training, the president of the Moscow club told Igor Esmantovich .

Duda signed a contract with NHL Utah in July. As previously learned, if Artem ever returns to play in the KHL, he will have to work out one year of his contract with the military club.

The defenseman was selected in the second round, 36th overall, in the 2022 NHL Entry Draft. In June 2023, Duda traveled to North America and signed a contract with the University of Maine’s NCAA team, but the league barred him from playing for the new team because he had an existing contract with CSKA . In December, the defender signed a contract through the end of the 2023/24 season with the University of Toronto, which plays in the Canadian University League. This league is not subject to the rules of the International Hockey Federation (IIHF) and the NCAA.

— Artem Duda signed an agreement, but did not fully fulfill his contract with CSKA. In other words, you let him go calmly.

— The word “calmly” does not work properly here in the framework of the regulations. There is no legal way to prohibit a hockey player from playing in America after the expiration of his contract with CSKA. The words that I allowed him to make constitute an incorrect presentation of information to the press. When I did not allow him and he had signed a contract with CSKA, he did not play in America for a year. Therefore, this year, when his legal contract on paper with our club expired, my permission to play in America was not required.

— You focused on his last name when you said you were following the youth in North America. Can you say you are ready to see him on the team?

— This question can be interpreted in two ways. If he wants to return, how he wants to do it, how he will come, how he will speak, how he will explain why he did this. There are many components here. As soon as he left here, he let his agent down. His agent in America was very serious, he pulled his levers to explain himself, to make Artyom understand that he was wrong. Moreover, when he left, Duda was a young man. We need to look at where the legs come from: his parents or the agent who took him. There are many elements here and I am not ready to condemn him at the moment. He received his punishment and lost a year of good training, because Sergei Viktorovich Fedorov counted on him as a player last year. If our conversation about his return to CSKA takes place, when the opportunity arises, we will sit down and discuss everything. “Sport is a flexible activity where you have to be able to punish and forgive. And, looking ahead, I will say that there is no answer to this question today. The puck is round, we will see,” Esmantovich told .

Duda is a product of the CSKA system. He played 14 matches for the military club, in which he made 3 assists. His contract with CSKA was valid until April 30, 2024. Last season, he played 12 matches for the University of Toronto team, in which he scored 7 points (2+5).

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