Gladiators Announce 2024-25 Season Ending Roster

Duluth, GA – The Atlanta Gladiators, in conjunction with the ECHL, have announced the club’s season ending roster for the 2024-25 campaign. The roster features twenty players, consisting of twelve forwards, seven defensemen, and one goaltender. The roster can be found below sorted by position group.

Forwards (12): Easton Armstrong, Mickey Burns, Joey Cipollone, Ryan Cranford, Carson Denomie, Ryan Francis, Connor Galloway, Eric Neiley, Jackson Pierson, Cody Sylvester, Nick Wong, Alex Young

Defensemen (7): Dylan Carabia, Brenden Datema, Anthony Firriolo, Andrew Jarvis, Jack Robilloti, Derek Topatigh, Zach Yoder

Goaltenders (1): Drew DeRidder

Atlanta made three moves earlier this week to complete futures trades with Bloomington, Wheeling, and Orlando. 

The Gladiators acquired defenseman Jack Robilloti from the Bloomington Bison to complete a trade in which the Bison received forward Josh Boyer.

Atlanta sent forward Tyler Drevitch to the Orlando Solar Bears to complete a trade that sent forward Randy Hernandez to the Gladiators. Hernandez has since been traded to Wheeling to complete a trade with the Nailers that dealt forward Filip Forsmark to Atlanta. 

Season-Ending Rosters may include up to 20 players. Season-Ending Rosters cannot include any players who did not sign an ECHL contract in 2024-25.

Each team is entitled to reserve rights to a maximum of eight players from the list of 20 by extending a qualifying offer no later than 11:59 p.m. ET on July 7. Of the eight qualified players, no more than four can be veterans (260 regular season professional hockey games played as of the start of the 2024-25 Season). Players on open qualifying offers cannot be traded. Teams are not required to extend a qualifying offer to players who sign a contract prior to July 7.

The qualifying offer must remain open for acceptance until 11:59 p.m. ET on July 22 at which time the qualifying offer becomes null and void and the team may sign the qualified player to any salary or may elect to take no further action. Teams that extend a valid qualifying offer to a non-veteran player shall retain the rights to that qualified player for one playing season.

A team that extends a valid qualifying offer to a veteran player, or to a goaltender who has played more than 180 regular-season games, will retain the rights to that player until 11:59 p.m. ET on July 22. After July 22, if the veteran player or goaltender is not signed to a contract by the team, the veteran or goaltender shall be deemed a restricted free agent and shall be entitled to seek and secure offers of employment from other ECHL teams. Restricted free agents may not be traded. When a restricted free agent receives a contract offer from a team other than the team with the player’s rights and the restricted free agent wishes to accept the contract offer, the restricted free agent and the offering member must, within 24 hours, notify the ECHL, the team with the player’s rights and the Professional Hockey Players’ Association. The member with the player’s rights shall have seven days after the date it is notified to exercise its right to match the contract offer.

If a restricted free agent is not signed to either an offer sheet or a contract by an ECHL team by 11:59 p.m. ET on August 8, the player shall be deemed an unrestricted free agent.