Elias Edström - som gjorde några allsvenska matcher med Björklöven på lån så sent som i fjol - förstärker hårdsatsande Boden.

Den 26-årige centern har tillhört Hockeyettan-klubben Teg de senaste säsongerna och öst in poäng i BHF:s seriekonkurrent.

Edström har i övrigt bland annat ett förflutet i Troja/Ljungby och har spelat allsvensk hockey i totalt fyra olika klubbar (AIK och Asplöven i övrigt).

Urban Åström (sportgruppen) om spetsvärvningen.

- Elias är en stark center som kommer vara viktig för oss, inte minst i special teams. Vi har följt honom under flera säsonger och är givetvis väldigt glada över att knyta ytterligare en Norrbottning till vårt lag, säger Urban Åström till Bodens hemsida.

Anton Blomberg har ett förflutet i Skövde (2017/2018) sedan tidigare.

Nu är den SHL-meriterade forwarden tillbaka i skaraborgarna.

Motala-sonen har skrivit på ett kontrakt som gäller i en säsong.

Den 25-årige forwarden avslutade den gångna säsongen i Södertälje och har totalt 122 matcher i HockeyAllsvenskan på meritlistan.

Klubbchefen Anders Lundström om kanonvärvningen.

- Blomberg är en mycket skicklig offensiv forward med väldigt fina egenskaper i den offensiva zonen och specialteams. Han kommer ge oss fina verktyg för att göra mål med sin irrationella spelstil och näsa för det offensiva spelet. Han trivdes väldigt bra när han var här senast och har sedan dess bara blivit bättre i vårt tycke. Det ska bli oerhört kul att få in honom i truppen och se vad han kan hitta på för oss i vinter, säger SIK:s klubbchef till hemsidan.

#ZIETOR

A 1:5 in Heat 9 from Toruń‘s Pawel Przedpelski (14+1, pictured) and Robert Lambert (9+1) brought the scores to within two, 28:26. The Pole would top scorer, but the visitors never got closer than that as Zielona Góra bounced bad I from last weekend’s humiliating loss to Wroclaw. Falubaz won 48:42 with top scorers, Matuesz Tonder (11) and Patryk Dudek (10+1). Australian, Max Fricke scored 7 for the home team.

The Australians in the visiting team depot also kept the scoreboard ticking over as Jack Holder scored 12+1 and older brother Chris, 5+1.

#GORLES

A great match took place between last year’s finalists who had already met at the beginning of the year with Gorzow providing a shock win against the reigning champions in Round 1.

The racing was tight and the teams exchanged heat advantages with the scores locked at 36:36 after Heat 12.

However, a brilliant piece of action saw the home team’s Rafal Karczmarz (3+1) pass Leszno’s U21 World Champion, Jaimon Lidsey (2+2) to take third place and separate the teams by two points going into the nomination heats.

Heat 15’s SGP line up ended up as a 4:2 to cement Gorzow’s victory 47:43 and they also took the bonus point from two victories against Unia Leszno.

Karczmarz had come in to replace Marcus Birkemose (1), who continues a luckless first season in the Ekstraliga. Meanwhile, Gorzow’s other Danish rider, Anders Thomsen faired much better with 9+1.

Leszno’s Jason Doyle continues his great season, top scoring alongside teammate, Janusz Koledziej (11+1).

EWinner 2 #RZEOPO

Embrassing day for Rzeznow who were unable to get the track up to standard leading to delay and then cancellation with the points going to Opole without a single heat being raced.

EWINNER1 #RYBBYD

A tight fixture that will be most remembered for a horrendous crash in Heat 9. All four riders were involved. But the rider who worse off was Bydgoszcz’s Grzegorz Zengota who fell lightly only to be run over by his own teammate, David Bellego. The Frenchman did not return to the match and Zengota was taken away in an ambulance.

Rybnik won 48:41 with Michael Jepsen Jensen (14, photo) top scoring for the home side whilst #8 Yevgeniy Sajdullin scored scored 11 pts for the visitors. The young Russian will be in the U21 World Championships qualifier in Daugavpils on Saturday.

#WROGRU

Sparta Wroclaw continued in the form that enabled them to destroy Zielona Góra last week by putting over 60 pts past rivals Grudziadz tonight.

Few pundits gave the visitors as chance before the game had started. As last week, Wroclaw refused to let up, even with the match won at Heat 11.
The match finished 63:27 with Nicki Pedersen high scoring for Grudziadz with 11 pts and Kenneth Bjerre taking 7+1 pts.

For Wroclaw two SGP riders scored paid maximums - Maciej Janowski (14+1) and Tai Woffinden (13+2). The team’sother British rider, Daniel Bewley impressed agee as in with 10+3.

#CZELUB

Both teams came to this match undeafted in their last two games. But Częstochowa set the mood for the match with a 5:1 in the first heat with Bartosz Smektala (11) and Leon Madsen (11+1) leading the way.
Vocal supporters screamed from the Lions almost nonstop between heats, and were rewarded with four 5:1s in the first 9 heats making it impossible for Lublin to get into the match.

The final result was a resounded 56:34.

Mikkel Michelsen (15) topped the scores for the visitors. But the home team had four riders with a double figure score and the whole team performed as the managerial staff would have hoped for when they planned their 2021 squad. Encouragingly for the home time, Fredrik Lindgren (12+1, pictured) finally looked like the quality SGP rider he is for the first time this season. Dane Jonas Jeppesen (4) also played his supporting role for the winners.

Swedish 18 year old, Phillip Hellström-Bängs (pictured) will be racing against riders gathered primarily from Scandinavia and Eastern Europe when he travels to Daugavpils for 12 June.

The prize is a place in the 2021 U21 World Championship series that starts in September.

This favourite for this qualifier will probably be Wiktor Lampart, junior with Lublin who was the U21 European Champions in 2019. He was unable to attend last year’s final due to an injury in the last match of the season in the Ekstraliga for Lublin.

However, Marko Levyshyn (UKR) and Petr Chalpac (CZE) did appear in Pardubice last year and will be hoping to return to the competition in 2021.

One rider to look out for will be Latvia’s own Francis Gusts who has been racing on this very track with Lokamotiv in the Polish league. Denmark’s Tim Sörensen also cannot be discounted with his experience gained from racing with Daugavpils’ rivals in eWinner 2, Rzeszow.

Daugavpils line-up

1 Markus Maximus Lill EMF Estonia

2 Philip Hellström-Bängs SVEMO Sweden

3 Francis Gusts LaMSF Latvia

4 Andrei Popa FRM Romania

5 Dennis Fazekas MAMS Hungary

6 Mathias Pollestad NMF Norway

7 Petr Chlupáč ACCR Czech Republic

8 Jan Mihalik SMF Slovakia

9 Mitchell Cluff MA Australia

10 Ernest Matjusonoks LaMSF Latvia

11 Wiktor Lampart PZM Poland

12 Marko Levishyn FMU Ukraine

13 Mark Karion MFR Russia

14 Tim Sorensen DMU Denmark

15 Timi Salonen SML Finland

16 Evgenii Saidullin MFR Russia

17 Reserve Ricards Ansviesulis LaMSF Latvia

18 Reserve Daniils Kolodinskis LaMSF Latvia