ECHL Reading Royals

Royals Add Defenseman Ray Macias

Published on September 21, 2011 under ECHL (ECHL)
Reading Royals News Release


Reading, PA - The Reading Royals of the ECHL, affiliate of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League and the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League, today announced that the team has agreed to terms with defenseman Ray Macias ["MAY see us"].

The Royals have now announced twenty players as signed for the 2011-12 season-eleven forwards (Phil Aucoin, Bryan Brutlag, Ryan Cruthers, Joe Cucci, Casey Haines, Olivier Labelle, Chad Painchaud, Richard Purslow, John Scrymgeour, Rob Shearer, and Everett Sheen) and nine defensemen (Channing Boe, Dave Cowan, Rob Kwiet, Derrick LaPoint, Louis Liotti, Chris Nutini, David Strathman, Denny Urban and Macias).

Last season, Macias (6'1/207) (25), who hails from Long Beach, California, scored three goals, assisted on eleven others (fourteen points) and picked up twenty-eight penalty minutes in forty-three games for the Lake Erie Monsters of the AHL. He earned a two-game call up to Colorado Avalanche of the NHL in April, after which he returned to the Monsters for four playoff games. Last year's call-up marked the second stint in Colorado for Macias, who was a fourth round pick of the Avalanche in 2005 and played six NHL games with them in April of 2009, recording one assist. Last season marked the fourth consecutive year that Macias has played in Lake Erie, where he holds the team record for games played (173) and is fourth in all-time assists (45a) and ninth on the all-time scoring list (62pts). Macias, who will be entering his fifth pro season, has registered eleven points (1g-10a) in thirteen career ECHL regular season games-all with the Johnstown Chiefs. He was also a part of the Chiefs' playoff run (1g-3a in six playoff games) in 2008. Prior to turning pro, Macias registered 184 points (66g-118a) in 280 regular season games over five years in the Western Hockey League with the Kamloops Blazers. During his tenure in Kamloops, Macias led the Blazers' defenders in scoring four times-and led the entire team once. In his final year of major junior, Macias led all defensemen in the WHL with thirty goals and seventy points in seventy games with the Blazers.

The Royals will face the Cincinnati Cyclones in the team's 2011-12 home opener on Saturday, October 22, 2011, at 7:05 pm at the Sovereign Center in Reading, Pennsylvania. The team kicks off the season on the road against the South Carolina Stingrays in North Charleston, South Carolina, on Friday, October 14 (7:05 pm). That game, as with all Royals' road games this year, will be televised live courtesy of Royals TV presented by Boscov's Travel and Royal Caribbean Cruise lines in Berks County, Pennsylvania, on BCTV.

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