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ICE HOCKEY - Coventry Blaze captain Kim Tallberg to depart club after four seasons

Aaron Sutcliffe 28th May, 2026   0

COVENTRY Blaze captain Kim Tallberg will depart the club this summer following a four-season spell.

The 34-year-old made 266 appearances for Blaze and registered 171 points, scoring 68 goals and providing 103 assists.

The Swede joined Coventry ahead of the 2022/23 season and quickly established himself as a fan favourite at the Skydome Arena.

Tallberg became captain ahead of the 2023/24 campaign and led Blaze to the Challenge Cup final this season.

He won a clean sweep of individual honours in the 2022/23 season.

Tallberg scooped the coach’s player, players’ player and supporters’ player of the year awards.




And he again won the coach’s player of the season at the club’s recent end-of-season awards night.

Before joining the Blaze, Tallberg enjoyed a successful career in his native Sweden.


He recorded 93 points (48 goals, 45 assists) across 272 appearances in the Allsvenskan, Sweden’s second-tier league, while also posting 168 points (84 goals, 84 assists) in 272 HockeyEttan games.

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