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.
