Fribourg sends Lucas Hedlund and Alessio Guignard to Thurgau

"The plan is clear: we need to offer them an environment where they can get plenty of playing time", HC Fribourg-Gottéron's team manager Gerd Zenhäusern is cited by "La Liberté" in regards to Lucas Hedlund and Alessio Guignard. "If everyone is healthy, they still lag a little behind. It would make no sense to keep them in Fribourg just to practice."

Thus, defenseman Guignard and forward Hedlund will start the season with HC Thurgau in the Swiss League. The latter, for his part, already played 44 games in said league, albeit for EHC Winterthur.