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ECHL Reading Royals

Reading Royals Weekly Update

December 15, 2008 - ECHL (ECHL)
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TOP NOTES OF THE WEEK

1. The Royals stretched the team's season long winning streak to three games with wins on Wednesday in Dayton (5-4) and on Friday against the Elmira Jackals at the Sovereign Center (3-2). Those two wins marked the first time this season that the Royals have won back-to-back games in regulation time. Reading's winning streak was snapped with the 5-2 loss to the Wheeling Nailers on Saturday.

2. Wednesday's game against the Dayton Bombers marked the third consecutive game in which the Royals jumped out to at least a three goal lead. In fact, the Royals led 4-0 after one period in Dayton-on four goals by four separate players. The game winner that night, however, proved to be the second period goal scored by Kevin Harvey (which made the score 5-2, Reading). With that goal, Harvey became just the third Royal this year to register a GWG.

3. Max Taylor became the first player in Royals' history to score all three goals for the team in a single game in Friday's 3-2 win over the Elmira Jackals. Taylor's three goal performance marked the seventeenth time in Reading's eight year history that a single player has scored three or more goals in a single game. Taylor also scored a goal in Wednesday's 5-4 win over Dayton-his first game with the team-and in Saturday's 5-2 loss in Wheeling. Taylor's three game goal scoring streak tied the season long for Reading. (Mac Faulkner and Ned Lukacevic have also had three game goal scoring streaks for the Royals this year.)

4. Peder Skinner registered back-to-back multi-point performances on Wednesday in Dayton (1g-1a) and Friday against Elmira (0g-2a). Those games extended Skinnner's point and assist streak to all five games that he had played with the Royals to that point (1g-7a=8pts). That streak was snapped in the Royals' 5-2 loss to Wheeling on Saturday. Skinner, however, scored the only goal for Reading in the 4-1 loss in Wheeling on Sunday.

5. Tyler Doig registered his team leading (along with Kirk MacDonald) fifth multi-point game of the year when he picked up a pair of assists in the Royals' win in Dayton last Wednesday. Doig stretched his personal point streak to five games (3g-4a=7pts) when he assisted on the Royals' game-tying goal in the 3-2 win over Elmira on Friday. Doig's point streak was snapped in Saturday's loss in Wheeling; but he did pick up an assist (as well as his fourth fighting major of the year in a tilt with the Nailers' Tobias Holm) on Reading's only goal on Sunday. Doig currently leads the Royals with seventeen points (and thirteen assists).

6. Goaltender James Reimer won all three games for the Royals in the team's win streak this past week. Reimer also played in the Royals' 5-2 loss in Wheeling, substituting for starter Danny Taylor fifteen seconds into the second period (with the score 4-0, Wheeling). Reimer allowed one goal on nineteen shots in the remaining 39:45 of that game. Reimer's personal win streak was snapped in Sunday's 4-1 loss to Wheeling. That game, during which Reimer made 39 stops on 42 shots, marked the third time in the last five starts for Reimer that he has faced more than forty shots.

7. David Nimmo bagged a pair of assists in Wednesday's 5-4 win last Wednesday's win in Dayton, including one on the game winner by Kevin Harvey. That marked Nimmo's second multi-point game in only his third in the ECHL (and with the Royals). Nimmo also scored the Royals' second goal in Saturday's 5-2 loss to Wheeling.

8. The Royals' penalty kill allowed three PPGA in Dayton on Wednesday, marking the eighth time this season that the team has allowed two or more power play goals against in a single game-and the fifth time the opposition has scored three PPGA against Reading. The Royals' PK held the Elmira Jackals' PP off the board in six chances on Friday night, marking the fourth time this year Reading's PK has blanked the opposition (and the first time the team won a game in which they held the opponent's PP off the board).

Reading's PK also blanked Wheeling's PP on Saturday night; but the Nailers got their first goal on the PP on Sunday. Overall this season, the Royals' PK has allowed 37 goals in 163 chances for the opposition, which translates into a 77.3% kill ratio-22nd in the league.

9. The Royals' PP scored a pair of goals in Wednesday's win in Dayton, marking the sixth time this year Reading has scored 2 or more PPG in a single game. The Royals also got the game winning goal on Friday against Elmira while playing with the man advantage. Reading's PP was held off the board on the weekend in Wheeling (0-8 on Saturday;

0-2 on Sunday). The Royals PP has scored 21 goals in 143 chances with the man advantage-a 14.7% scoring ratio (18th in the league).

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