Less than a week after having passed through waivers and being reassigned to the AHL's Utica Comets, Yannick Weber was recalled to the NHL again by the Vancouver Canucks last night.

The League has suspended SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers' forward Steve Mason for a total of five games due to "checking to the head". Furthermore, the Canadian-Dutch has to pay a fine of CHF 1,850.

Waltteri Immonen has been named assistant coach of the Finnish national team as of the upcoming 2016-17 season. The 48-year-old will fulfill his new task in addition to his on-going job in Zug.

Midway through last night's game between SC Langenthal and Hockey Thurgau, HCT's Simon Sterchi checked Langenthal's captain Stefan Tschannen into the boards. The 31-year-old might be severely injured.

According to Radio RFJ, Gauthier Descloux, who is currently playing on loan for HC Ajoie, sustained an arm-injury in the warm-up for yesterday's game against EHC Visp.