Goaltender Mike Lee Assigned to the Gladiators
December 12, 2014 - ECHL (ECHL)
Atlanta Gladiators News Release
DULUTH, Ga. - The Portland Pirates, AHL affiliate of the Gladiators, announced that they have assigned goaltender Mike Lee to Gwinnett on Friday.
Lee, 24, has played in 29 games with the Gladiators over the last two seasons, posting a 15-12-1 record, a 2.30 goals against average and a .913 save percentage with two shutouts. Lee's last game with the Gladiators was on November 11, 2013, when he stopped 29 of the 30 shots he faced against the Greenville Road Warriors in a 3-1 win for Gwinnett in Greenville.
A third round (91st overall) draft selection of the Arizona Coyotes in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft, Lee has played in 21 games with the Pirates. In the AHL, he has a 9-8-1 record, a 2.95 GAA, and a .907 SV%. The Roseau, Minn. native has not played a game since December 6, 2013 due to injury.
To accommodate Lee on the roster, the Gladiators have released goaltender Adam Brown. In seven games started, Brown sported a 2-4 record with a 3.42 GAA and a .897 SV%.
Lee will be available to the Gladiators beginning with this weekend's Sing for Santa Weekend at The Arena at Gwinnett Center. The Gladiators will take on the Cincinnati Cyclones at 7:05 p.m. Saturday night and the South Carolina Stingrays on Sunday at 2:05 p.m. Join the Gladiators as they ring in the holidays with hundreds of local area schoolchildren, who will sing holiday favorites in the first intermission.
The Gladiators are members of the ECHL, the nation's premier "AA" hockey league, and are affiliated with the Arizona Coyotes of the NHL. All home games are played at the 11,355-seat Arena at Gwinnett Center, located just off I-85 on Sugarloaf Parkway in Duluth - where parking is always free.
As Atlanta's "One and Only" professional hockey team, the Gladiators have established an extraordinary winning tradition and unrivaled commitment to excellence, maintaining a distinctive reputation for affordable and family-friendly sports entertainment. The Gladiators are consistently ranked as one of the top "Things To Do" in the Atlanta area and across the North Georgia region.
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