Sullivan is a six-year pro out of Weston, Ontario who notched 7 goals and 6 assists for 13 points in 33 games for the Pensacola Ice Pilots last season. He also finished with 101 penalty minutes for Pensacola leading the Ice Pilots in that category last year.

The 6-foot-2, 225-pound forward appeared in 57 games with the Ice Pilots during the 2006-07 season after being acquired in the off season by Pensacola from Augusta for goaltender Brett Jaeger.

Sullivan appeared in a career high 60 games with the Augusta Lynx during the 2005-06 season where he collected a career best 18 goals and 23 assists for 41 points and 203 penalty minutes.

The right winger began his professional career with the Roanoke Express before being acquired midseason by the Baton Rouge Kingfish. He played under former Gladiators Captain and then Kingfish head coach Cam Brown while with Baton Rouge.

He spent part of the next two years, the 2003-04 season and the 2004-05 season with the Lowell Lock Monsters of the American Hockey League, the Reading Royals and the Louisiana Ice Gators before being acquired by the Augusta Lynx.

Sullivan spent four seasons in the "Major Junior A" Ontario Hockey League with the London Knights, Mississauga IceDogs and Owen Sound Attack where he recorded 37 goals and 113 points in 183 career OHL games prior to turning pro.

Sullivan became a free agent and he joins the Gladiators after the Pensacola Ice Pilots suspended operations for the 2008-09 season. Sullivan was listed as a member of the Pensacola Ice Pilots protected list that was released on June 3rd.