Duluth, Ga. – The Atlanta Gladiators announced that the club has re-signed forward Cody Sylvester for the 2025-26 season.
Sylvester led the Gladiators with 24 goals and 47 points in 65 games last season. The native of Kelowna, British Columbia enters his fifth season with Atlanta having posted 222 points (101g-121a) in 232 games with the team, ranking in the top five in the club’s all-time leaders in goals, assists and points. During the 2022-23 season, Sylvester posted a career high of 38 goals and 48 assists for 86 points in 70 games, breaking the Gladiators’ single-season goal record.
The 33-year-old enters the 13th year of his professional career having totaled 329 points (157g-172a) in in 365 career ECHL games. Sylvester has consistently been one of the league’s top scorers, having scored the fifth most goals, the 12th most assists and eighth most points amongst active skaters heading into the 2025-26 campaign.
After five seasons in the Western Hockey League with the Calgary Hitmen, Sylvester began his professional career with the Wheeling Nailers and American Hockey League’s Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in 2013. He spent part of the 2014-15 campaign with the South Carolina Stingrays before heading overseas to play in Europe for the Iserlohn Roosters. Sylvester spent the next five seasons playing in Germany and Austria for Iserlohn, Dornbirner EC and EC Bad Nauheim ahead of his return to the ECHL in 2020 with the Nailers. After the 2020-21 campaign, Sylvester signed with the Gladiators, having since been named an alternate captain. In his professional career, Sylvester has scored 526 points (235g-291a) in 623 games.
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