The rookie goaltender made his World Championships debut for the Czech Republic last year, but the potential for an injury before securing a new deal is too risky.
| UPDATED:ANAHEIM — Ideally, Lukas Dostal would be playing games well into the spring at the World Championships, which are scheduled for May 12-28 and co-hosted by Riga, Latvia and Tampere, Finland.
The Ducks’ rookie goaltender has answered the call when asked to play internationally for his native Czech Republic at the junior level and made his World Championships debut in May last year for the national team, beating Great Britain, 5-1.“I talked about it with Pat a little bit and also with the national team,” Dostal said. “Obviously, I would like to go, but I don’t have a contract so far. I told the national team if we sorted it out somehow, then I’d like to go.
“The GM is Martin Havlat,” Dostal said of the former NHL forward, who played 14 seasons. “He told me he understood, has been in that situation so many times.” Dostal, who will be coming out of his entry-level contract, is one of a handful of pending restricted free agents among the Ducks. Most prominent are the team’s two leading scorers, Trevor Zegras and Troy Terry. In an interview in March, Zegras cited the contract as a possible factor against playing in the Worlds, saying then:
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