Register ECHL Player of Week

The ECHL announced today that Atlanta Gladiators defenseman Matt Register has been named the Sher-Wood Hockey ECHL Player of the Week for December 28th - January 3rd. Register, 26, collected an impressive eight assists in three games this past week which helped the team to a 2-1-0 record. The Calgary, AB native also produced three straight multi-point games in the previous week to extend his current point streak to five games where he has tallied one goal and 10 assists. The 6-foot-2, 205 pound defender leads the Gladiators in scoring since making his season debut on December 5th with 16 points in 14 games and is riding a stretch of four straight multi-point efforts. Register has 123 points in 158 career ECHL games with both Atlanta and the Ontario Reign and was named ECHL Defenseman of the Year in 2013-14.On behalf of Matt Register, a case of pucks will be donated to an Atlanta youth hockey organization by Sher-Wood Hockey, the exclusive puck supplier of the ECHL. Since beginning its sponsorship of the award in 2000-01, Sher-Wood Hockey has donated more than 33,000 pucks to youth hockey organizations in ECHL cities.The Atlanta Gladiators 13th season is now underway at Infinite Energy Arena. Join the Gladiators for their next home game on Wednesday, January 6th, 2015 at 7:05 PM. For ticket information, visit the official team website at www.atlantagladiators.com or call the main office line at 770-497-5100.The Gladiators are members of the ECHL, the nation's premier AA hockey league. All home games are played at the 11,355-seat Arena at Infinite Energy Center, located just off I-85 on Sugarloaf Parkway in Duluth where parking is always free. The Gladiators have established an unrivaled commitment to excellence, maintaining a distinctive reputation for affordable and family-friendly sports entertainment and consistently ranked as one of the top Things To Do in the Atlanta area and across the North Georgia region.For all the latest team news, contests, and more visit AtlantaGladiators.com, or like the Gladiators on Facebook (www.facebook.com/AtlantaGladiators), follow the team on Twitter (www.twitter.com/ATLGladiators), Instagram (www.instagram.com/atlgladiators) or Snapchat (www.snapchat.com) at gladshockey . -###-