Jonathan Yantsis

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 […]

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 […]

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: 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 […]

ECHL Announces Length Of Suspension For Jonathan Yantsis

The ECHL Department of Player’s Safety has announced that they have suspended Trois-Rivieres Lions forward Jonathan Yantsis for nine additional games for his actions on Saturday Night as he cross-checked Norfolk Admirals defenseman Darick Louis-Jean. Originally, the league had suspended Yantsis indefinitely pending a hearing. Yantsis has already served one game of his suspension and […]

ECHL Announces Fines and Suspensions | 04/28/2024

The ECHL Department of Players Safety has announced that Trois-Rivieres Lions forward Jonathan Yantsis has been suspended indefinitely pending review and fined an undisclosed amount for his actions at the 11:29 mark of the second period in Game 5 vs Norfolk Admirals. Yantsis would check Norfolk’s Darick Louis-Jean from behind as Louis-Jean would end up […]

ECHL Game Recap: Trois-Rivières Lions vs Worcester Railers | 04/12/24

The Worcester Railers and the Trois-Rivieres Lions met in Quebec last night for the first of three matches and had quite the game. If they won on Frida Night, the Railers would still be in a position to clinch a Kelly Cup Playoff spot, which is their first since the 2017-2018 season. Last night’s win […]

ECHL: Greenville Swamp Rabbits Transactions | 02/21/2024

Greenville, SC—The Greenville Swamp Rabbits have made some roster moves in the last day after playing three games last week. Yesterday, they traded forward/left-wing Jake Smith to the Reading Royals in exchange for future considerations. Smith was an elite one-timing sniper on the Rabbits’ power play, but he unfortunately fell short when it came to […]