{"id":222863,"date":"2026-06-19T03:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T03:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/222863\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T03:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T03:24:15","slug":"erie-otters-announce-ohl-signing-of-forward-anton-gesink-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/222863\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie Otters Announce OHL Signing of Forward Anton Gesink | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Erie Otters, Niagara Set for OHL Rivalry Week Rematch - 1\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>The Erie Otters continue to shape their roster this offseason as they prepare for the start of the 2025-26 season in September.<\/p>\n<p>The team announced Thursday that it has signed forward Anton Gesink to an OHL agreement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are very excited to be welcoming Anton to our organization,&#8221; Erie Otters Director of Hockey Operations Scott Grieve said. &#8220;We have followed Anton throughout the year and believe his development curve over the last 12 months has been steep. He possesses a blend of size, skill and pace. We look forward to working with Anton to further his development both on and off the ice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gesink spent last season at Ridley College, where he recorded 24 goals and 60 points in 57 games.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-2 forward from Wilmette, Illinois, previously played alongside current Otter Tyler Cooper with the Chicago Reapers U14 AAA program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Erie Otters continue to shape their roster this offseason as they prepare for the start of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[96942,136,138,137,17019,22240,11170,96943],"class_list":["post-222863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-anton-gesink","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-erie-otters","tag-ice-hockey","tag-ohl","tag-sports-signing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}