Gendron back with Swamp Rabbits

GREENVILLE, S.C. – The Greenville Swamp Rabbits, ECHL affiliate of the National Hockey League’s Los Angeles Kings, announced that defenseman Miles Gendron has returned to the Swamp Rabbits in advance of the 2024-25 season.

Gendron returns to both the Swamp Rabbits and the ECHL after spending the 2023-24 season with the Elite Ice Hockey League’s Belfast Giants. He seven assists in 28 games across all competitions. After starting the 2022-23 campaign with Storhamar in Norway, Gendron suited up with the Swamp Rabbits for 19 games in the second half of the season, earning 3 points (2g-1a), followed by an additional pair of assists in four Kelly Cup Playoff games.

A native of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, Gendron, 28, enters his sixth season as a professional, the vast majority of which has been spent in the ECHL. Of his 170 career games, 135 games have come through Newfoundland, Brampton, Reading, Utah and Greenville, where he has totaled 46 points (18g-28a), with an additional 16 games coming in the American Hockey League with Belleville and Colorado. 

Prior to turning professional, Gendron played four years of college hockey with the University of Connecticut, earning 33 points in 126 games, and serving as UConn’s captain in his senior year. Gendron also played junior hockey with the Penticton Vees for a season, winning the 2015 British Columbia Hockey League championship. He was drafted by the Ottawa Senators in the third round (70th overall) of the 2014 NHL Entry Draft.