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ECHL: Trois-Rivieres Lions Announce 2024-25 Season Opening Roster

The Trois-Rivieres Lions announced their 2024-25 season-opening roster earlier today as they will open up their season tomorrow night vs Reading Royals. For Trois-Rivieres, they lost a lot of key pieces on the blue line, but they did bring back their leading scorer in Jakov Novak, and they have some strong goaltending with two guys […]

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ECHL: Trois-Rivieres Lions Announce 2024 Training Camp Roster

The Trois-Rivieres Lions have announced their initial 28-man training camp roster, which consists of 17 forwards, eight defensemen, and three goaltenders. Trois-Rivieres will open up the season at home on October 18th vs Reading Royals. They would also claim defensemen Wyatt McLeod from the Bloomington Bison. McLeod’s only prior ECHL experience came during the 2020-21 […]

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ECHL: Trois-Rivieres Lions Re-Sign Defenseman

The Trois-Rivieres Lions have re-signed defenseman Cory Thomas for the 2024-25 season, which will be his fourth season in the ECHL after spending four seasons at the University of Vermont and his final year at Canisius College, where he put up four goals and five assists for nine points in 134 games at the NCAA […]

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ECHL: Trois-Rivieres Lions Announce 2024 Season-Ending Roster

The Trois-Rivieres Lions announced their 20-man season-ending roster on Saturday evening. The Lions had 26 players on their protected list, which was due to the league last Thursday. 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 […]

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ECHL: Trois-Rivieres Lions Announce 2023-24 Protected List

The Trois-Rivieres Lions have announced that have protected 26 players on their 2023-24 protected list. Here are the rules of the protected list per the ECHL: Teams are allowed to protect as many players as they wish provided the players protected meet the guidelines as defined in the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the ECHL and […]

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ECHL North Division Semi-Finals Game 2: Norfolk Admirals vs Trois-Rivieres Lions | 04/19/2024

The Norfolk Admirals lost game two of their Kelly Cup North Division semi-final to the Trois-Rivières Lions by a final of 5-4 Friday night at Colisée Vidéotron. Turnovers and not getting shots through on net were the negative stories for the Admirals all night. Brandon Osmundson and a promising late comeback were positives in the […]

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The Trois-Rivières Lions Clinch Kelly Cup Playoff Spot

The Trois-Rivières Lions have clinched a Kelly Cup Playoff position with their win over the Worcester Railers. The two teams met this past weekend for a three-game series, and the Lions beat the Railers 2 out of 3. Friday night, the Railers won 3-2; they hoped to continue that win streak and clinch their own […]

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ECHL: Utah Grizzlies Bring Back Dakota Raabe

It was announced on August 14th, 2023, that the Utah Grizzlies are bringing back fan favorite Dakota Raabe. Going into his third season with Utah, Raabe has been a huge contributor since joining the team late in the 2021-22 season. Last season, Raabe played in 55 games while tallying 36 points (11G, 25A). Raabe, a […]

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ECHL- Utah Grizzlies take game one over Idaho Steelheads 3-0

Boise, Idaho- Utah Grizzlies starting goalie Trent Miner saved all 43 shots he faced, and the Grizzlies got goals from Dakota Raabe, Kyle Betts, and Jordan Martel as they defeated the Idaho Steelheads 3-0 in game one of the Mountain Division semifinals best of seven series at Idaho Central Arena. Neither team scored in the […]

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