Duluth, Ga. – The Atlanta Gladiators introduced that the membership has signed ahead Louis Boudon for the 2025-26 season.
Boudon returns to North America after spending the 2024-25 marketing campaign in Sweden enjoying for the Nybro Vikings of the HockeyAllsvenskan league, the place he scored 21 factors (9g-12a) in 47 video games. The native of Grenoble, France has continuously represented his residence nation internationally since his youth, showing in two World Junior Championships and 4 IIHF World Hockey Championships. Within the 2025 World Hockey Championship, Boudon scored one aim in seven video games for France.
The 26-year-old is coming into his third full season {of professional} hockey and alongside along with his professional expertise in Sweden with Nybro, has performed professionally within the American Hockey League and the ECHL. Boudon has performed in 14 profession AHL video games between the Laval Rocket and the Iowa Wild, posting two factors (1g-1a), and throughout the 2023-24 season with the Iowa Heartlanders, he tallied 46 factors (18g-28a) in 54 video games, main the Heartlanders in objectives and factors that season.
Boudon performed faculty hockey at Lake Superior State College previous to turning professional. In 2020, Boudon was named to the Western Collegiate Hockey Affiliation All-Rookie crew, and in 2021, he and the Lakers received the WCHA championship. Boudon was named the Lakers captain for his closing two seasons and completed his collegiate profession with 114 factors (39g-75a) in 139 video games.