New partnerships

Alexandra Aldridge/Daniel Eaton USA (September 2017) - dance (reunion)
Winter Deardorff/Max Settlage USA (March 2017) - pairs
Andrew Dodds/Chantelle Kerry AUS (May 2017) - dance
Anastasia Mishina/Alexander Gallyamov RUS (March 2017) - pairs
TJ Nyman/Sarah Feng USA (May 2017) - pairs

Splits

Anastasia Mishina/Vladislav Mirzoev RUS

Coaching changes

Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford CAN to add John Zimmerman and John Kerr (choreo) to their coaching team, will not be working with Richard Gauthier
Gracie Gold USA to be coached by Marina Zueva
Elena Radionova RUS to be coached by Elena Buianova
Adelina Sotnikova RUS to be coached by Evgeni Plushenko (rsport)
Isabella Tobias/Ilia Tkachenko ISR to be coached by Marina Zueva

Retirements

Jeremy Abbott USA (IceTalk)
Mao Asada JPN (highlights from her career)
Anastasia Cannuscio/Colin McManus USA (ice-dance.com)
Misha Ge UZB (maybe?) - may or may not have retired after Worlds (stay tuned)
Emi Hirai/Marien de la Asuncion JPN
Yuko Kavaguti/Alexander Smirnov RUS
Julia Lipnitskaia RUS (tweet from rsport editor in chief)
Kanako Murakami JPN (highlights from her career)
Evgeni Plushenko RUS
Ruslan Zhiganshin RUS (sport.ru)

Other news

Jun Hwan Cha KOR ailing from ankle and hip injuries, withdrew from Asian Trophy (yonhap)
Gabrielle Daleman CAN had surgery to remove abdominal cysts May 2017 (cbc)
Meryl Davis/Charlie White USA announced they won't compete this season
Artur Gachinski RUS coming back after retiring December 2015 (rsport)
Yura Min/Alexander Gamelin KOR eligible for Olympics after Gamelin gets Korean citizenship
Adelina Sotnikova RUS will not compete this season due to injury (AP)
Polina Tsurskaya RUS battling a rare genetic disease (rsport)

Music selection [program sneak peeks]

Max Aaron USA - SP: Bring Him Home; FS: Phantom of the Opera
Mariah Bell USA- SP: Chicago; FS: West Side Story
Michal Brezina CZE - SP: Kodo; FS: Stand by Me, Human by Rag'n'bone
Jason Brown USA - SP: The Room Where It Happens from Hamilton (choreo Rohene Ward); FS: Original composition by Maxime Rodriguez (choreo Rohene Ward)
Ashley Cain/Timothy LeDuc USA - SP: I'll Take Care of You; FS: The Great Gatsby
Marissa Castelli/Mervin Tran USA - SP: Fallin; FS: Woman by Shawn Phillips
Jun Hwan Cha KOR - SP: What a Wonderful World by One Republic (choreo David Wilson); FS: The Planets (choreo David Wilson)
Patrick Chan CAN - SP: Dust in the Wind by Kansas; FS: Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley
Alaine Chartrand CAN - SP: Libertango (choreo Shae-Lynn Bourne); FS: Sunset Boulevard (choreo: David Wilson)
Karen Chen USA - SP: Tango de Roxanne (choreo Mark Pillay); FS: Carmen (choreo Mark Pillay)
Madison Chock/Evan Bates USA - SD: Marc Anthony selections; FD: Imagine
Dabin Choi KOR - SP: Papa Can You Hear Me; FS: West Side Story / I Feel Pretty
Penny Coomes/Nicholas Buckland GBR - SD: Rhumba D'amour (choreo Christopher Dean); FD: Battled Remembered by Yo-Yo Ma (choreo Coomes/Buckland)
Gabrielle Daleman CAN - SP: Carmen; FS: Gladiator Rhapsody (choreo Lori Nichol)
Tim Dolensky USA - SP: Awake My Soul (choreo Ryan Jahnke); FS: Faux (Novo Amor; choreo Ryan Jahnke)
Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford CAN - SP: With or Without You cover by April Meservy (choreo John Kerr); FS: Muse medley (revisiting their 2014-15 FS)
Polina Edmunds USA - SP: Palladio (choreo Rudy Galindo); FS: Time To Say Goodbye (choreo Rudy Galindo)
Alisa Fedichkina RUS - SP: Mozart; FS: La La Land
Javier Fernandez ESP - SP: Chaplin medley (different from his Chaplin FS from 2012-13); FS: Man of La Mancha
Joshua Farris USA - SP: Give Me Love (choreo Jeff Buttle); FS: Pines of Rome (choreo Jeff Buttle)
Liam Firus CAN - SP: Happy Ending; FS: La La Land
Amber Glenn USA - SP: Fever; FS: Red Violin (choreo Scott Brown)
Gracie Gold USA - SP: People from Funny Girl; FS: La Bayadere
Charlene Guignard/Marco Fabbri ITA - FD: Exogenesis Symphony Part III
Yuzuru Hanyu JPN - SP: Ballade No. 1; FS: SEIMEI
Kaitlin Hawayek/Jean-Luc Baker USA - FS: Libestraum
Jorik Hendrickx BEL - SP: Je Suis Malade
Loena Hendrickx BEL - SP: Frozen by Madonna
Courtney Hicks USA - SP: Lady Caliph
Marin Honda JPN - FS: Turandot
Madison Hubbell/Zachary Donohue USA - SD: Le Serpent by Guen, Cuando Calienta El Sol by Tayla Ferro, Sambando (Los Ritmos Calientes); FD: Across the Sky Instrumental by Rag N' Bone Man, Caught Out In the Rain by Beth Hart
Lubov Ilyushechkina/Dylan Moscovitch CAN - SP: In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins
Alex Johnson USA - SP: Legends by Sacred Spirit (choreo Tom Dickson); FS: Aranjuez (choreo Tom Dickson)
Tarah Kayne/Danny O'Shea USA - SP: All I Ask of You (choreo Massimo Scali); FS: Swan Lake (choreo: Shae-Lynn Bourne, Shae Zukiwsky)
Rika Kihira JPN - SP: Kung Fu Panda; FS: La Strada
Carolina Kostner ITA - SP: Ne me quitte pas; FS: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Maxim Kovtun RUS - FS: Pink Floyd (choreo Ilia Averbukh, Misha Ge)
Alex Krasnozhon USA - SP: Korobushka (choreo Scott Brown); FS: Nelle Tu Mani (choreo Scott Brown)
Zijun Li CHN: FS: Galaxy by Yuko Toyoda
Valentina Marchei/Ondrej Hotarek ITA - SP (choreo Massimo Scali); FS: Amarcord (choreo Peter Tchernyshev)
Evgenia Medvedeva RUS - SP: Chopin's Nocturne No. 20; FS: January Stars, Departure (Lullaby), Dona Nobis Pacem 2
Mai Mihara JPN - SP: Libertango
Ross Miner USA - FS: Queen medley
Satoko Miyahara JPN - SP: Memoirs of a Geisha; FS: Madama Butterfly (choreo Tom Dickson)
Mirai Nagasu USA - SP: Nocturne in C sharp minor; FS: Miss Saigon (choreo Jeff Buttle)
Kaetlyn Osmond CAN - SP: Summertime (choreo Lance Vipond); FS: Black Swan (choreo Jeff Buttle)
So Youn Park KOR - SP: Black Swan; FS: Aranjuez Mon Amor
Cheng Peng/Yang Jin CHN - SP: Tango; FS: Butterfly Lovers
Anna Pogorilaya RUS - SP (choreo Pasquale Carmerlengo); FS (choreo Nikolai Morozov)
Elena Radionova RUS - FS: Historia de un Amor (choreo Shae-Lynn Bourne)
Adam Rippon USA - SP: Diamonds, covered by Adam Rippon; FS: Arrival of the Birds, O
Kaori Sakamoto JPN - SP: Danse Macabre; FS: Amelie
Alexa Scimeca Knierim/Chris Knierim USA - SP: Paint It Black by Ciara (choreo Rohene Ward); FS: Ghost
Maia Shibutani/Alex Shibutani USA - SP: mambo by Perez Prado?; FS: Paradise by Coldplay
Yuna Shiraiwa JPN - SP: The Girl with the Flaxen Hair; FS: Pictures at an Exhibition
Victoria Sinitsina/Nikita Katsalapov RUS - FD: Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, Vocalise
Adelina Sotnikova RUS - SP (choreo Emanuel Sandhu); FS (choreo Emanuel Sandhu)
Maria Sotskova RUS - SP: Waltz from Swan Lake (choreo Peter Tchernyschev)
Deanna Stellato/Nathan Bartholomay USA - SP: Eleanor Rigby (Joshua Bell; choreo Rohene Ward); FS: One, Streets Have No Name (U2; choreo Mark Pilay)
Ksenia Stolbova/Fedor Klimov RUS - SP Besame Mucho (choreo Pasquale Carmelengo); FS Carmen (choreo Marie-France Dubreuil)
Evgenia Tarasova/Vladimir Morozov RUS - SP: Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto 1 and 2; FS: Rock-n-roll, Boogie-Woogie
Andrew Torgashev USA - SP: Moonlight Sonata (choreo Scott Brown, Ilona Melnichenko); FS: Tango de Roxanne (choreo Scott Brown, Ilona Melnichenk)
Elizabet Tursynbaeva KAZ - SP (choreo Misha Ge)
Shoma Uno JPN - SP: Four Seasons Winter; FS: Turandot
Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir CAN - FD: Moulin Rouge
Sergei Voronov RUS - SP: Tango (choreo Misha Ge); FS: Sarabande (choreo Misha Ge)
Ashley Wagner USA - SP: Hip Hip Chin Chin (choreo Shae-Lynn Bourne); FS: Moulin Rouge (choreo Shae-Lynn Bourne, Benji Schwimmer)
Kaitlyn Weaver/Andrew Poje CAN - FS: Adagio from Spartacus (choreo Lori Nichol, Linda Garneaux
Natalia Zabijako/Alexander Enbert RUS - SP: Summer of 42; FS: Too Close, I Love You Too Much, Sleeping Beauty
Alina Zagitova RUS - SP: Black Swan, Moonlight (Middle of the World); FS: Don Quixote
Vincent Zhou USA - SP: Chasing Cars; FS: Moulin Rouge (choreo Jeff Buttle)

Grand Prix and Challenge schedule

ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating
- Rostelecom Cup - October 20-22, 2017
- Skate Canada International - October 27-29, 2017
- Cup of China - November 3-5, 2017
- NHK Trophy - November 10-12, 2017
- Trophee de France - November 17-19, 2017
- Skate America - November 24-26, 2017
- Grand Prix Final - December 7-10, 2017
ISU Figure Skating Challenge Series
- US International Figure Skating Classic - September 13-18, 2017
- Lombardia Trophy - September 14-17, 2017
- Autumn Classic International - September 20-23, 2017
- Ondrej Nepela Trophy - September 21-23, 2017
- Nebelhorn Trophy - September 27-30, 2017
- Finlandia Trophy - October 6-8, 2017
- Minsk-Arena Ice Star - October 27-29, 2017
- Warsaw Cup - November 16-19, 2017
- Tallinn Trophy - November 21-26, 2017
- Golden Spin of Zagreb - December 6-9, 2017

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