LIIGA - As TPS Turku announces, Kimmo Rintanen will join their team in a coaching position with immediate effect. The Finn had been let go by the Kloten Flyers shortly before Christmas.

NLB - Reto Kobach will leave the Valascia at the end of this season and join NLB team EHC Olten, as La Regione reports. He has agreed to a two-year contract and will thus stay in Olten until the end of the 2016-17 season.

MEDICAL REPORT - EHC Biel will have to make do without Manuel Gossweiler and Martin Ulmer, as they have also fallen ill, according to the Bieler Tagblatt.

MEDICAL REPORT - Noah Rod and Goran Bezina are back in regular practice. However, according to the Tribune de Genève, it is unlikely that they will play in the last games of the regular season.

MEDICAL REPORT - As HC Davos announces, Beat Forster will probably not take to the ice tonight against the NLA-leader ZSC Lions.