Rumours rife about the Clan and Blaze

GLASGOW, UK – Adam Calder is looking for a new job after what must surely be the shortest tenure of any ice hockey coach in the UK. The championship winning former Coventry Blaze Captain has agreed by mutual consent with the Braehead Clan senior management to cancel his contract as player/coach of the brand new ice hockey franchise.
This is surely a highly embarrassing start for the new Braehead Clan and you can only wonder what the people of Glasgow will make of it. It is hardly good public relations and Calder would not have walked away lightly, he is a fierce competitor and a honourable sportsman. It was first reported on www.activcoventry.com   last week that all was not well with the Calder move into coaching after he had a major disagreement with the senior director of the Clan over direction, ambition and style of play.
Calder will not be short of offers to play but it remains to be seen if he is offered a coaching role in the Elite League. There is a player/coach vacancy at Edinburgh Capitals and this would be incredibly ironic if he was to take up that job. If that happened he would be the coach of Braehead Clans’ closest rivals. The cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh are extremely competitive with each other in all aspects, there is fierce rivalry.
However there is speculation that Calder is considering a playing role with an EPL team. There is no chance of him returning to Coventry Blaze because Head Coach Paul Thompson has signed his replacement, with Owen Fussey heavily tipped to be on his way to Coventry from Edinburgh Capitals. This is a great signing for Coventry with Fussey having played in the NHL for Washington Capitals and having vast experience in the AHL.
Paul Adey the former head coach of Nottingham Panthers, has been linked with the head coach vacancy at the Clan. Adey has been coaching Renon Ritten in Italy and the Montreal native would offer the Clan a vast amount of experience.
Further speculation surrounds Coventry Blaze new blue liner Brad Zanon being given shirt number 00. Is this because the #6 shirt that Zanon has worn for his previous teams is reserved in Coventry for a Blaze favourite and legend from the 2004/5 grand slam winning team who only left Coventry last year to play in Denmark?
Speculation has been rife that Neal Martin could return to Coventry after his appearance at the Coventry Blaze 10 year anniversary celebrations in January this year. On this occasion Paul Thompson stated that he would love to have Martin back and Martin still has a house that he owns in Coventry. Martin “owns” the Coventry #6 shirt and the fact that Zanon has not been granted it has fanned the Blaze rumour networks.   If this is the case then Coventry are looking short of fighters in D and the fans will be wondering who the enforcers for next season are going to be. It has to be remembered of course that Coventry are allowed 11 imports for next season so there is still plenty of scope for enforcers to be signed.
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