Cov's Ice Hockey team play home and away games against Newcastle on Saturday and Sunday but have lost Coach Paul Thompson plus Defencemen Leigh Jamieson,Jon Weaver and Ben O'Connor and forward Russ Cowley, who are on international duty with Great Britain at an Olympic Qualification tournament in Poland.
Paul Thompson
Unlike, football, whereby Coventry City boss Chris Coleman could get a game called off if he had a number of players playing for their country, there are no such rules in the Elite Ice Hockey League and matches must be played.
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire are covering the GB matches live from Sanok in Poland.
The games are:
Tomorrow night at 6.30pm, GB face Poland, followed by a game against Japan the day after at 2.45pm and on Sunday at 1.30pm against Romania.
James Pease will play for the Blaze in both matches against Newcastle before taking up a new role as the club's General Manager. Pease has made 631 appearances for the Blaze after moving from Milton Keynes.
To see Blaze action from this season, click on
http://www.coventryblaze.co.uk/blaze_tv.php