Adam Ruzicka’s time in the Arizona Coyotes was limited to a few games.
The NHL club Arizona Coyotes placed their Slovakian forward By Adam Ruzicka to the transfer list (unconditional waivers). The club’s aim is to terminate the player’s contract. The club will not comment further on the matter.
That’s what Arizona’s brief press release on Friday evening read.
Earlier today, a video that Ruzicka had published on her Instagram account in the Stories section spread on social media.
Ruzicka deleted the video in 10 minutes, but it managed to go around, for example In the X service.
In the video, the player describes a table with a beer bottle, a line of white powder and a bank card. Ruzicka grins at the camera and makes gestures that refer to burning a match.
News about the topic, among other things ESPNwho writes a white powder – suggestive of cocaine†.
Ruzicka, 24, was in the second season of his two-year, $1.525 million contract. He moved to Arizona in January from the Calgary Flames.
Ruzicka will debut in the NHL in the 2020–2021 season. He has played 117 games in the NHL, including 114 in Calgary. The power points of a large center in the NHL are 14+26=40.
Ruzicka is the second NHL player whose contract will be terminated this season through a similar procedure. Earlier, Chicago got rid of a striker About Corey Perry because of an incident that happened on an away game trip. Perry has since joined the Edmonton Oilers crew.
ESPN points out that there is precedent that the NHL can punish players for similar off-ice meddling. of the Washington Capitals Yevgeny Kuznetsov was banned for three matches in 2019 – due to inappropriate use†. The Russian star had given a doping test in the spring of 2019, which revealed cocaine. He received a four-year ban from international matches.
Even before the doping test, Kuznetsov found himself in the middle of a cocaine scandal in the NHL, when a video started to spread on social media. In the video, Kuznetsov was sitting at the end of the table, and there were white lines and a rolled up banknote on the table.