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Reading Royals Weekly

January 25, 2010 - ECHL (ECHL)
Reading Royals News Release


Since joining the Royals from the Johnstown Chiefs in the second game of the season, Andrew Sarauer has played a number of roles for Reading"from solid two-way forward on a lock-down checking line to a body sacrificing shot- blocking penalty killer to a high flying breakaway specialist capable of blowing by defenders on the wing" and he's played them all well. But perhaps his most unheralded skill has been on the penalty shot. This week Andrew got his second chance of the season on a penalty shot when he was hauled from behind on a short-handed breakaway in South Carolina. Andrew didn't waste either chance - as his SH/PS on Friday proved to be his second goal of the game and second penalty shot goal of the year. Which makes us think about another possible role"in the Royals' shootout lineup....

TOP NOTES OF THE WEEK

1. The Royals win on Monday over the Trenton Devils was the second game in a row in which Reading scored a late third period goal to break a 3-3 tie and win the game (4-3) in regulation. (In the team's prior game, on Saturday, January 16, Reading's Bryan Ewing scored with 4:02 remaining in regulation to give the Royals a 4-3 win over the Elmira Jackals; on Monday, the game winner"by Marc Cavosie"came with just 1.2 seconds left in regulation).

2. The game winner on Monday by Marc Cavosie with 1.2 seconds left in regulation is the latest tie-breaking game winner n regulation time ever registered in the nine year history of the Royals. Only once before in team history have the Royals scored a tie-breaking game winner with less than one-minute remaining in regulation"and that came last year when Tyler Doig scored with only 45 seconds left to break a 4-4 tie in Wheeling on March 22, 2009.

3. Marc Cavosie scored a pair of goals (and picked up an assist) in Monday's 4-3 win over the Devils. That marked Cavosie's first multi-goal game (and first three point performance) of the season with Reading. (He had three multi-goal games"and three games with three or more points"in twenty-four games with the Royals in 2007- 08, the last time he played for the team). Cavosie has registered at least one point in sixteen of the twenty-three games that he's played for Reading this year. His game winner on Monday was his team leading third GWG of the year.

4. After Monday's win, the Royals tied the team's high water mark at eight over games.500 (22-14-1-3=48) on the team's thirty-eighth game of the year"the Royals were also eight games over.500 twenty-nine games into the season (17-9-1-2= 39). On Saturday and Sunday, Reading lost back-to-back games to the South Carolina Stingrays. This marks the fourth time this season that the Royals have lost two games in a row in regulation. The team has not had a three game losing streak this year.

5. Both of the Royals' losses this past weekend were at the North Charleston Coliseum, where the Royals are still yet to win in the nine year history of the team (0-5-1). Historically, the Royals have a 5-7-1 record against the Stingrays"5-2-0 in the seven games that have been played at Sovereign Center. Reading and South Carolina meet one more time in the regular season"on Friday, March 26, 2010 at the North Charleston

6. The eight goals allowed by the Royals in Friday's loss to the Stingrays (5-8) are the most allowed in a single game this season. This game marked the eighth time in the nine year history of the team that Reading has allowed eight or more goals in a single game. The last time it occurred was on December 26, 2008 at Wheeling, West Vir- ginia, when the Wheeling Nailers beat Reading 10-6 (a game in which current Royal Bryan Ewing had his first pro hattrick"3g-1a=4pts"for the Nailers).

7. Andrew Sarauer scored a pair of goals, including a short-handed penalty shot, in Friday's 8-5 loss in South Carolina. Sarauer also scored the game's first goal in Satur- day's 5-3 loss to the Stingrays. Sarauer has five goals and eight points in his last nine games for Reading.

8. Ben McLeod scored a pair of third period goals on Friday after being hit in the face with a puck on a shot by a teammate (Bryan Ewing) in the first period. That marked McLeod's first multi-goal game of the year. He is currently riding a four game point streak (4g-1a=5pts). McLeod's goal that started his current point streak against the Elmira Jackals on Saturday, January 16"broke a seventeen game goal scoring drought for him.

9. Bryan Ewing racked up three assists in the Royals' 8-5 loss last Friday. That was Ewing's first three point game"and second multi-point performance"for Reading since joining the team five games ago. Ewing has registered at least a point in all five games he's played for the Royals, and he his currently riding an eight game point streak (with the Toledo Walleye and Royals) (6g-7a=13pts) and a three game assist streak (5a).

10. Ben Gordon scored his team leading 19th goal of the year on Sunday when he became the 16th player in team history to register at least 50 points in a season. On Monday (0g-2a), he registered his team leading nineteenth multi-point performance for Reading. Gordon is currently 4th in league scoring (19g-31a=50pts).

11. Goaltender Matt Dalton has played eleven consecutive games for the Royals and has started twenty-six of the last thirty-two games for the Royals since joining the team on November 11, 2009. Dalton is currently fourth in the league in total minutes played (1517) and leads all rookie goaltenders (third overall) in saves made (847).

12. The Royals power play was held off the board in Saturday's 5-3 loss in South Carolina for the seventeenth time this season "and the third time over the last six games. (In those six games, the Royals PP has gone 4-31, which is a 12.9% scoring ratio). The Royals have a record of 4-12-0-1 when they fail to score a power play goal (and 18-5- 1-2 when they do). Overall, the Royals are 36 - 223 on the power play, which translates into a 16.1% scoring ratio"fifteenth in the league.

13. The Royals penalty kill blanked the Trenton Devils power play on Monday, snapping a streak of six consecutive games in which the Royals had given up at least one power play goal against. That marked the fourteenth time this season that Reading's PK has held the opposition off the board, and the team has compiled a record of 9-3- 1-1 in those games. South Carolina's power play scored three times (in four tries) in Friday's 8-5 loss for Reading. That tied the Royals' team high for power play goals against this season. (Johnstown also scored three power play goals on November 11, 2009 in a 6-4 loss for the Royals). Overall, the Royals' PK has killed 172 of the 213 power plays the team has faced, which is a 80.8% kill ratio (16th in the league).

CLOSING NOTES

1 ..The Royals 4-3 win over the Trenton Devils on Monday ran the team's record this season to 8-0-0-0 with six more games to be played between these two teams"the next time being on Friday, February 5 in Trenton. That game will be the 98th meeting in team history between Reading and Trenton. The Royals are 46-41- 10 all time in the regular season against Trenton.

2. Andrew Sarauer's short-handed penalty shot goal last Friday was his second penalty shot goal of the season. He also scored on a penalty shot against the Toledo Walleye (goaltender Jordan Pearce) on October 23, 2009. Sarauer is the second Royal to scored two penalty shot goals in one season"the other being Greg Hogeboom in the 2006-07 season. The Royals have now taken fourteen penalty shots (five of them while short-handed) and scored seven penalty shot goals in the nine year history of the team.

3. Charlie Kronschnabel has registered an assist in all three games he's played since being returned to the team from the Syracuse Crunch.

4. Olivier Labelle is currently riding a 3 game point streak (2g-1a). Labelle has 14 points (8g-6a) in his last 13 games. He also crossed the 100 PIM threshold this past weekend for the 4th consecutive time as a pro.

5. Rob LaLonde, who scored a goal and picked up an assist in Monday's win, cur- rently leads the Royals with 105 penalty minutes. This pass weekend LaLonde surpassed the career plateau of 500 PIMs (506) through 4 pro seasons. 469 of LaLonde's PIMs have been with the Royals - he is 70 PIMs short of Malcolm Mac- MIllan as the all-time career leader for PIMs in a Royals' uniform.

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