ECHL Reading Royals

Reading Royals Weekly

Published on January 18, 2011 under ECHL (ECHL)
Reading Royals News Release


In this the Royals' Tenth Anniversary season, the organization has attempted to identify and celebrate the top moments in Royals team history. The list has been chalked full of amazing individual perform- ances, thrilling late game drama, and exhilarating playoff runs. There haven't been any transactions nominated. Let me start here. The deal came during the 2008-09 season-remembered by Royals' fans as the season we'd prefer to forget-but on March 8, 2009, with the team all but knocked out of the playoff picture, the Royals agreed to what was considered a 'block-buster' trade at that time, sending the Royals' team captain Mac Faulkner (and Gerard Miller) to the Cincinnati Cyclones for a couple of players (and futures)-one of whom was Ben Gordon. For a variety of reasons, the deal raised some eyebrows at the time; but what that deal really raised was the offensive production of the Royals to a level that it's really never been to before. And during this week during which Gordon extended his current personal point streak to nine games and became the third all-time leading scorer in team history, we're reminded that, even in the ECHL, it some times it pays to plant a few seeds today that might grow into a rather bountiful harvest at some future moment.....

TOP NOTES OF THE WEEK

1. Last Friday night, the Royals extended the team's unbeaten streak to a season high nine games (7-0-2-0) with an 8-2 win over the Toledo Walleye. That streak was snapped in the 6-3 loss to the Elmira Jackals on Saturday in Elmira. After the 2-1 shootout loss to the Trenton Devils on Monday, the Royals have compiled a record of 23- 10-2-1 through the first thirty-six games of the regular season. That is the best record in the ten year history of the Royals' organization at the half-way point of the regu- lar season, surpassing the 2005-06 team that went 23-11-2 through 36 games.

2. Reading currently has the top win percentage in the ECHL (.681).

3. The eight goals scored in Friday's win over Toledo and the six goal margin of victory for Reading in that game established season highs for the Royals, who average 3.33 goals per game, which is currently fifth best in the ECHL.

4. Saturday's loss in Elmira snapped the Royals season long six game road unbeaten streak (5-0-1-0). The Royals are 13-5-1-0 on the road this season, which is the best road record in the Eastern Conference at this time. Reading's next three contests will be played against the Florida Everblades at Germain Arena in Estero, Florida.

5. Monday's 2-1 shootout loss to the Trenton Devils marked the first SOL for the Royals this season. That game marked the ninth time this season that the Royals have played the opposition to a tie through sixty minutes of hockey. Reading has compiled a record of 6-3 in those games, but the team has lost the last three decisions in either overtime or the shootout. Despite Monday's end result, the Royals are currently riding a six game home unbeaten streak (4-0-1-1).

6. Ben Gordon registered back-to-back multi-goal games on Friday (2g-2a) and Saturday (2g-0a) this week. Those were his first multi-goal games of the year. (He has had a total of eight multi-point performances this season.) Gordon is currently riding a team-long nine game point streak (8g-6a=14pts). In 104 career games with Reading, Gordon has registered 125 total points (47g-78a), which is third on the all-time Royals career scoring list. Gordon is two points behind Dany Roussin (for second all-time in scoring) and fourteen behind Dan Rooney, who is the all-time leading scorer in Royals history.

7. Yannick Riendeau is currently riding an eight game point streak (3g-6a) and a four game assist streak (0g-4a). He has registered thirteen points (4g-9a) in his last twelve games with the Royals.

8. John Scrymgeour scored his second goal of the season on Friday night in Reading's 8-2 win over Toledo. That goal, which was the Royals' third of the game, proved to be the game winner. Both of Scrymgeour's goals this season have been GWGs.

9. Alain Goulet extended his personal point streak to five games (2g-3a) by picking up an assist on both Friday and Saturday night. That streak was snapped in Monday's 2-1 shootout loss.

10. The Royals scored three power play goals in a single game for the first time this season on Friday against the Walleye (3-7). After being blanked for the seventeenth time this season on Saturday in Elmira, the Royals power play registered the Royals only goal against the Trenton Devils on Monday. Read- ing's power play has scored twenty-four PPG in 152 chances with the man advantage (15.8% scoring ratio, 14th in the league)

11.After holding the Toledo Walleye power play off the board on Friday night, the Royals PK had killed nineteen consecutive power play chances for the opposition over four straight games. The Royals penalty killers have blanked the opposition's PP fifteen times this season That streak was snapped by Elmira on Saturday (1-2). This season Reading's PK has allowed 32 PPGA in 180 chances for the opposition (82.2% kill radio, 12th in the league).

CLOSING NOTES

1. Monday's 2-1 shootout loss to Trenton marked the first time this season that the Royals have not registered a win when they've held the opposition to two goals or less. Reading is 14-0-0-1 in such games.

2. The SOL on Monday was also the Royals twenty-second game this season that was decided by one goal. Reading is 15-4-2-1 in one-goal games this year.

3. Saturday's loss in Elmira ended a five game winning streak for the Royals against the Jackals. Reading has compiled a record of 5-4-0-0 in the nine games played this season against Elmira (with six more games to be played between the two teams.)

4. Cody Wild scored the third period game tying goal for the Royals on Monday against the Trenton Devils. That goal, which came on the power play, was Wild's first as a Royal.

5. Casey Haines registered back-to-back multi-point performances on Friday (1g- 1a) and Saturday (0g-3a) this week. He has had three multi-point games for the Royals this year.

6. Tyler Murovich registered his first multi-goal game (2g-0a) in his fourth game as a Royal on Friday night against the Walleye. He was recalled to the Springfield Fal- cons of the AHL after Friday night's game.

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