{"id":822135,"date":"2026-07-25T03:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T03:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/822135\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T03:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T03:07:11","slug":"australians-overseas-2025-26-france-ice-hockey-news-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/822135\/","title":{"rendered":"Australians overseas 2025\u201326: France \u2013 Ice Hockey News Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784948831_3_Thumbnail-Australians-overseas-002.png\" alt=\"Ice Hockey News Australia Australians overseas featured image thumbnail\" title=\"Thumbnail - Australians overseas-002\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the 2025\u201326 season having finished in the Northern Hemisphere we thought we would take a brief look at the Australian players who were competing overseas. Today features Australians in France. The information is collected from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/nation\/australia\/abroad-players-in-eu\/2025-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elite Prospects<\/a> and so might not be fully comprehensive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/40923\/alastair-band\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alastair Band<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockeyfrance.com\/competitions\/fiche-joueur\/?joueur_id=110743&amp;club_id=214&amp;equipe_id=630\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hockey France profile<\/a>): Third season in France for Chamb\u00e9ry 2 (formerly known as HC Savoie). Playing in the FFHG Division 3, Band competed in six games. In June 2026, Chamb\u00e9ry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0WGw1G9vyE1maqEF7EQTv3yoDhH6fd5F5BG6MDts9RJMBiuA2g9BfAr2PbqD7i36ol&amp;id=100072680966652&amp;locale=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> that Band had left the club and would not be returning for 2026\u201327.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the 2025\u201326 season having finished in the Northern Hemisphere we thought we would take a brief look&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-822135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}