ECHL Reading Royals

Ben Gordon To Represent Royals In ECHL All-Star Game

Published on December 31, 2009 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 forward Ben Gordon has been named as a starter for the American Conference in the 2010 ECHL All-Star Game presented by Reebok Hockey and brought to you by Toyota and the City of Ontario, California. This season's ECHL All-Star game will be hosted by the Ontario Reign at Citizens Business Bank Arena on January 20, 2010 while the ECHL All-Star Skills Competition will be held on January 19, 2010.

Gordon, who is currently on loan to the Marlies, leads the Royals with forty points (16g-24a) in twenty-eight games, which places him third in ECHL scoring. Gordon, who was selected as the Sher-Wood Hockey ECHL Player of the Week for December 14 - 21, 2009, is currently riding a five game point streak (5g-8a). In his most recent game with the Royals, a 6-3 loss to the Elmira Jackals on December 26, Gordon, a second year pro from International Fall, Minnesota, racked up his fifth straight multi-point game for Reading (1g-1a). He leads the team with sixteen multi-point performances this season.

There are 11 rookies on the American Conference and 19 of the 21 players are making their first appearance in an ECHL All-Star Game. There have been 58 players from the All-Star Game who have gone on to play in the National Hockey League, including 33 since 2002 when the lineups began having players who coaches felt were prospects to move up to a higher level. The starting lineups are determined in voting by American Conference coaches, team captains, media directors, broadcasters and media members. Coaches also submitted the top prospects from within their conference to determine the final roster with each of the 12 teams having a representative.

The third class will be inducted into the ECHL Hall of Fame on Jan. 20, 2010 during a luncheon ceremony at the Hilton Ontario Airport, the official host hotel of the 2010 ECHL All-Star Game presented by Reebok Hockey and brought to you by Toyota and the City of Ontario. The featured speaker at the ECHL Hall of Fame luncheon will be Hockey Hall of Fame member and Los Angeles Kings President of Business Operations Luc Robitaille.

Tickets for the luncheon are $40 each or a table with seven tickets can be purchased for $250. The Ontario Reign is offering a special ticket package that includes a tickets to the ECHL Hall of Fame luncheon, the All-Star Skills Competition, the Fan Fest at Dave & Busters and the ECHL All-Star Game for only $75. To purchase tickets visit OntarioReign.com/team/allstar/ or telephone the Ontario Reign at (909) 941-7825.

The Royals kick off 2010 on Saturday night (January 2, 2010 @ 7:35 pm) when the team travels to First Arena in Elmira, New York to take on the Elmira Jackals. The Royals game night broadcast on the Royals Radio Network presented by Transmissions by Arbogast will kick off with the pre-game warm-up show at 7:05 pm.

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