ECHL Reading Royals

Reading Royals Weekly

December 22, 2008 - ECHL (ECHL)
Reading Royals News Release


TOP NOTES OF THE WEEK

1. The Royals snapped the three game losing streak with a 5-4 shootout loss in Trenton on Saturday night. Over the course of the season, the Royals have had four losing streaks extending three games or longer (12/13 - 12/20/08, 3 games; 10/25 - 11/01/08, 3 games; 11/05 - 11/11/08, 4 games; and 11/22 - 12/07/08, 8 games). Friday night, in the 29th game of the season, the Royals sustained the team's 20th regulation loss. Prior to this, the earliest the Royals reached 20 regulation losses was the 43rd game of the season (2002-03).

2. Reading is winless in the first four games of the current six game road trip (0-3-1). This ties the season long for consecutive games without a win on the road (11/21 - 12/05/08, 0-3-1). The longest road winless streak in team history extended for eight games (0-6-2) (12/20/03 - 01/24/04).

3. The Royals 3-1 loss to the Trenton Devils on Friday night marked the seventh time this season that Reading has been held to one goal or less by the opposition- including three games in a row by the Devils. Over the course of the season, the Royals have scored 82 goals in 30 games, which translates into a 2.73 goals per game average (18th in the league). Reading averages allowing 3.87 goals per game (116 goals in 30 games) (22nd in the league).

4. Reading was credited with 24 shots on goal in Trenton on Friday night, marking the eleventh time this season that the Royals have been held to 25 or less shots in a game. The Royals average 28.23 shots per game, which is twentieth in the league.

5. The Devils registered 35 shots on goaltender Danny Taylor on Friday and 48 shots on James Reimer on Saturday. Royals' goaltenders have faced 35 or more shots thirteen times this year-and have faced 40 or more in seven of those games. Over the season, the Royals average giving up 34.37 shots against per game (20th)

6. Trenton outscored the Royals by a total of 5-1 in the second period in the two games this weekend (2-1 on Friday; and 3-0 on Saturday). Reading has been outscored in the second period this season by a total of 51 to 25 (-26). On the road, the Royals have been outscored in the second period 27 to 15 (-12).

7. David Nimmo scored the Royals only goal on Friday night in the 3-1 loss to Trenton, and he scored the team's (and game's) first goal in Saturday's 5-4 shootout loss to the Devils. That was Nimmo's fourth goal in eight games with the Royals, and his first 'first goal' of the year. Reading has scored the game's first goal in eleven of the thirty games played this season and has compiled a record of 3-6-2 in those games.

8. Chris Stevens registered the primary assist on Reading's only goal on Friday, and he scored the game-tying goal with the goaltender pulled and the sixth attacker on the ice and just 1:24 remaining in regulation on Saturday. Stevens has scored four goals and picked up two assists in nine games for the Royals since being acquired on December 4, 2008 from the Phoenix Roadrunners.

9. Dinos Stamoulis picked up an assist on the Royals' lone goal on Friday night to extend his personal point (and assist) streak to three games (0g-3a=3pts). In 29 games with the Royals this year, Stamoulis has a goal and six assists (seven points), which already tops his point production in 72 games for the Gwinnett Gladiators during his rookie season last year (0g-6a=6pts).

10. Brock Hooton returned to the Royals' line-up on Friday night after missing five games due to injury. Hooton scored a goal and picked up an assist in the 5-4 SOL against the Devils on Saturday. That marked Hooton's first goal (and multi-point game) since the 4-3 loss to the Dayton Bombers on November 30, an eleven game span.

11. The Royals power play was held off the board in nine chances with the man advantage (including 1:22 worth of 5-on-3 on Friday) against the Devils this weekend. In the five games played so far against Trenton, the Royals PP has gone 0 for 21. Reading's PP has been held off the board in four consecutive games (dating back to the late PPG by Max Taylor to defeat Elmira, 3-2 on 12/12/08). The PP is 0-19 in that span. Over the course of the season, Reading has scored 21 PPG in 152 chances, which trans- lates into a 13.8% scoring ratio (nineteenth in the league).

12. Trenton scored one PPG in each of the two games played this weekend, going one for six on Friday and one for five on Saturday. This continued a trend in which the Devils have scored one PPG in each of the five games they've now played against the Royals (5 - 29; 17.2%). Over the course of the season, the Royals' PK has allowed 39 PPGA in 174 chances for the opposition, which is a 77.6% kill ratio (twenty-first in the league).

CLOSING NOTES

1. Tyler Doig scored his fifth goal of the season 1:11 into the third period (to make the score 4-3, Trenton) on Saturday night. Doig, who has registered ten points (4g-6a) in his last nine games, is currently tied for the team lead with seventeen points (5g-12a=17pts).

2. Kirk MacDonald picked up a pair of assists in Saturday's SOL in Trenton. For MacDonald that marked his team leading sixth multi-point game of the season. MacDonald is currently tied for the team lead in goals (8) and points (17).

3. Goaltender Danny Taylor sustained his eighth consecutive loss for the Royals on Friday against the Devils. Taylor is currently riding a nine game winless streak (0-8-1), dating back to the team's 5-3 win over the Cincinnati Cyclones on No- vember 16, 2008.

4. James Reimer stopped 44 of the 48 shots he faced in the 65 minutes of hockey in the SOL on Saturday night. Trenton scored on all three of their shoot- out attempts to hand Reimer the first SOL of his pro career. (He had won his first two bids in the shootout). Reimer has stopped eight of the fourteen shoot- out attempts he's faced this season.

5. The Royals are 3-2 in the five shootouts they've had this season. Reading shooters have scored eight times in twenty-seven shootout attempts this sea- son (which is a 29.6% scoring ratio-thirteenth best in the league). The only Royal to score on his shootout attempt on Saturday was Peder Skinner, who is 1 for 2 for the Royals this year and 1 for 4 overall in the shootout. (The others who attempted a shot in the shootout on Saturday were David Nimmo, Shawn Snider and Brock Hooton.)

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