 Petr suited up for two games for the Predators in the 1998–99 season and did not play in the NHL again until the 2005–06 NHL season.That season, he played ten games for the Washington Capitals, ultimately leaving the United States after finding the cultural transition difficult.In his time away from the NHL, Sýkora has played for HC Pardubice in the Czech Extraliga and HC Davos of the Swiss Nationalliga A.