The Tampa Bay Lightning have sent three players from Syracuse down to Orlando, moving forwards Milo Roelens and Connor Kurth and defenseman Dyllan Gill to the Solar Bears, Syracuse Crunch general manager and head coach Joel Bouchard announced.
Roelens brings the biggest body of ECHL and AHL experience in the group. The 23-year-old center spent last season split between Syracuse and Orlando, appearing in 20 games with the Crunch and recording three assists, then playing 39 games for the Solar Bears and posting 11 goals and nine assists.
Since turning pro in 2023, the 6-foot-7, 225-pound Roelens has played 56 career AHL games, all with Syracuse, and 55 career ECHL games, all with Orlando. He has 11 points in the AHL and 23 points in the ECHL.
Before that, he put together a long junior run in the QMJHL, skating in 238 games from 2019 to 2024 with the Acadie-Bathurst Titan, Sherbrooke Phoenix and Gatineau Olympiques and finishing with 165 points.
Kurth, also 23, is headed back to the organization’s ECHL side after a strong season in Orlando. He played 53 games with the Solar Bears last year and finished with 14 points, including nine goals.
He also spent time with the Reading Royals, where he had 11 points in 20 games, and made his pro debut with Syracuse in the 2024-25 season, picking up one assist in five games. The 6-foot, 206-pound forward came out of the University of Minnesota, where he played 115 games over three seasons from 2022 to 2025 and scored 32 goals with 71 points.
Tampa Bay originally picked Kurth in the sixth round, 192nd overall, at the 2022 NHL Draft.
Gill, 22, also returns to Orlando after seeing action with both clubs. The 6-foot-2, 202-pound defenseman played three games for the Crunch last season and later skated in 64 games with the Solar Bears, collecting three goals and 15 assists.
During the 2024-25 season, he appeared in 24 games for Syracuse and put up two goals and two assists. A Riverview, New Brunswick native, Gill played 212 career QMJHL games from 2020 to 2025 with the Moncton Wildcats and Rouyn-Noranda Huskies, piling up 113 points.
He also won the Gilles-Courteau Trophy as QMJHL champions with Moncton in 2025. Tampa Bay selected Gill in the seventh round, 223rd overall, at the 2022 NHL Draft.
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