Author: Armand Klisivitch

Inside The Rink ECHL Manager | Senior Editor Credentialed Reporter for the Adirondack Thunder & Worcester Railers.

ECHL: Trois-Rivieres Lions Re-Sign Forward

The Trois-Rivières Lions have announced that they re-signed forward Charles Antoine-Paiement for the 2024-25 season. The 25-year-old winger joined the Lions in January after he spent three years at Concordia University, where he would put up 18 goals and 14 assists for 32 points in 47 games. He would add seven playoff games, with the […]

ECHL: Trois-Rivieres Lions Re-Sign Jonathan Yantsis

The Trois-Rivieres Lions announced on Thursday afternoon that they have re-signed forward Jonathan Yantsis for the 2024-25 season. Yantsis, 25, would play in 13 ECHL games during the 2023-24 season, with 10 of those games coming as a member of the Greenville Swamp Rabbits, where he would go scoreless and would be waived by the […]

ECHL: Fort Wayne Komets Continue To Build Roster For 2024-25 Season

ECHL free agency opened on Sunday, and in less than a week, the Fort Wayne Komets have seven players on their roster. On Wednesday afternoon, they announced three re-signings and one new signing. Defensemen Noah Ganske, Martin Has, and Mitch Andres have all re-signed with the Komets, and forward Randy Hernandez signed his first ECHL […]

Utica Comets Re-Sign Filip Engaras

The Utica Comets have announced that they have re-signed Filip Engaras to a one-year, one-way deal for the 2024-25 season; this is the first official signing by the Comets this off-season. Engaras was set to become an Unrestricted free agent on July 1st. The Swedish forward will be entering his second full season in the […]

Shea Weber Inducted Into The Hockey Hall Of Fame

Shea Weber was one of seven inductees into the Hockey Hall of Fame on Tuesday Afternoon, along with Pavel Datsyuk, Jeremy Roenick, David Poile, Natalie Darwitz, Colin Campbell, and Krissy Wendell-Pohl. The Nashville Predators would draft the BC native in the second round of the 2003 NHL Draft and would spend the first 11 years […]

ECHL: Trois-Rivieres Lions Re-Sign Kirby Proctor

The Trois-Rivieres Lions have re-signed defenceman Kirby Proctor to an ECHL contract for the 2024-25 season. Proctor was one of the late signing by the Lions signing with the team on April 5th as he would play in three games with the Lions at the end of the regular season and then would make the […]

ECHL: Justin Ducharme Heading Overseas

As the Trois-Rivieres Lions get ready to announce another signing later this afternoon, one of the players who won’t be signed by the Trois-Rivieres later today is Justin Ducharme, as he is heading overseas to play in Slovakia. Ducharme has spent the last three seasons in the ECHL with the Idaho Steelheads and Trois-Rivieres Lions, […]

ECHL: Utah Grizzlies Captain Heads Overseas

The Utah Grizzlies will need a new captain next season as defenceman Josh Wesley is heading back overseas, this time to Italy; he spent the 2022-23 season in Czechia, where he would put up just two goals and one assist for three points in 34 games. Wesley spent last season with the Colorado Eagles and […]

ECHL: Savannah Ghost Pirates Announce 2024 Season-Ending Roster

The Savannah Ghost Pirates have announced their season-ending roster of 20 players, the most that is allowed on the season-ending roster by the ECHL. Each team is allowed to protect a maximum of 20 players and reserve the rights to eight players; no more than four can be veterans. The ECHL considers any player with […]

ECHL: Wyllum Deveaux Re-Signs with Maine Mariners

The Maine Mariners have announced that they have re-signed forward Wyllum Deveaux for the 2024-25 season; this is the Mariner’s first signing for the 2023-24 season. In his rookie year with the Mariners, he put up 13 goals and 11 assists for 24 points in 46 games; he would score the game-winning goal for the […]