EV Zug announces, that they have prematurely extended the contract of their forward Nolan Diem for two more years. The 22-year-old will thus stay in Zug until the end of the 2017-18 season.

Felix Hollenstein won't be behind Switzerland's bench at the upcoming Deutschland Cup in November. As the SIHF informs, the national team's new head coach (ad interim) will miss the tournament due to family reasons.

SC Langenthal will have to make do without their defender Philippe Seydoux for quite some time. Also their netminder Marc Eichmann is still out.

HC Fribourg-Gottéron's defenseman Marc Abplanalp has suffered a lower-body injury in yesterday's game against the SCL Tigers and will be out for four weeks.

As HC Ambrì-Piotta's assistant team manager Alessandro Benin told journalist Marco Maffioletti (La Regione), Adam Hall is on his way back and considered day-to-day.