Sullivan Returns to Gladiators
Published on August 4, 2009 under ECHL (ECHL)
Atlanta Gladiators News Release
The Gwinnett Gladiators announced today that they have agreed to terms with forward Dan Sullivan for the 2009-10 season.
Sullivan returns to the Gladiators after appearing in a career high 70 games last year with Gwinnett. He finished with 6 goals and 16 assists for 22 points last year while posting 164 penalty minutes. Sullivan also skated in 4 Kelly Cup Playoff games with the Gladiators notching a goal for Gwinnett.
The Weston, Ontario native begins his 8th professional season and his second with the Gladiators this year. Before joining Gwinnett, Sullivan skated two seasons with the Pensacola Ice Pilots where he amassed 23 goals and 25 assists for 48 points in 90 games. He had a career best 41 points during his only full season with the Augusta Lynx in 2005-06 posting 18 goals and 23 assists.
The right winger began his professional career with the Roanoke Express during the 2002-03 season before being acquired midseason by the Baton Rouge Kingfish. He played under former Gladiators Captain and then Kingfish head coach Cam Brown while with Baton Rouge.
He spent part of the next two years, the 2003-04 season and the 2004-05 season with the Lowell Lock Monsters of the American Hockey League, the Reading Royals and the Louisiana Ice Gators before being acquired by the Augusta Lynx.
Sullivan spent four seasons in the "Major Junior A" Ontario Hockey League with the London Knights, Mississauga IceDogs and Owen Sound Attack where he recorded 37 goals and 113 points in 183 career OHL games prior to turning pro.
Began in 1988-89 with five teams playing in four states, the Premier 'AA' Hockey League has grown into a coast-to-coast league that is the third-longest tenured professional hockey league behind only the National Hockey League and the American Hockey League. The ECHL averaged 4,174 per game last season, marking the fourth year in row and the 16th time in the last 18 years that the league has averaged over 4,000 fans. The league has drawn over four million fans each of the last five years and 11 times in the past 12 seasons.
The Gwinnett Gladiators open their 7th season in the ECHL in October of 2009 - season ticket packages for the 2009-10 season are on sale now. In addition, the Gladiators offer several unique multi-game ticket packages as well as discounted group rates, suite rentals, and birthday parties. For more information call 770-497-5100 or log on to gwinnettgladiators.com.
The Gladiators are the AA affiliate of the Atlanta Thrashers and play all home games at the spectacular 11,355-seat Arena at Gwinnett Center, located just off I-85 on Sugarloaf Parkway in Duluth, where parking is always free.
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