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Reading Royals Weekly

January 26, 2011 - ECHL (ECHL)
Reading Royals News Release


There are games where, as a player, you're asked to simply do your job-just fulfill the role that has been carved out for you. There are those games where you are asked to do your job and perhaps a little bit extra. And there are those games, where-mostly out of necessity-you're asked to do your job and just about everything else.

And such was the case for all the defense- men-not just Jared Ross and Cody Wild-(and everyone else still in the line-up) in Saturday's

game in Florida when Reading lost three D-men in one felled swoop with two plus periods still to go due to a (pardon the pun) WILD fracas at Germain Arena in Estero, Florida, in the latter stages of the first period. Ross and Wild, playing as a pair (on every other shift, by the way) certainly did their job (plus some) in Saturday's game as they factored in three of the five goals- including the game winner which came in the form of a force-of- will bullet off the stick of Ross-it took for the Royals to take the two points in what has to be considered one of the most unlikely, improbable, kookie-crazy comebacks in the ten year

TOP NOTES OF THE WEEK

1. After the regulation loss on Wednesday in Florida and the shootout loss to the Everblades on Friday, the Royals were riding a four game winless streak (0-2-0-2) for the

first time since the season-long four game losing streak (0-4-0-0) in Games Two through Five at the start of the season. This most recent winless streak was snapped with

the 5-4 win over Florida last Saturday.

2. With a record of 24-11-2-2, the Royals currently have the highest win percentage in the Eastern Conference of the ECHL (.667). The Las Vegas Wranglers currently have

the league's highest win percentage at .679 (25-11-1-2).

3. The seven goals allowed by the Royals in last Wednesday's loss in Florida tied the team high for goals allowed this year. Reading also allowed seven against in the home opening 7-2 loss to the Elmira Jackals (October 23). The Royals are a plus-14 (+14) with respect to goals scored and allowed this season, having given up 118 goals against

(3.03/game) and scored 132 goals (3.39/game) through the first 39 games this year.

4. Last Friday's 4-3 shootout loss to the Florida Everblades marked the fourth time this season (in the five games played to that point between the two teams) that the Royals held a lead going into the third period only to have the Everblades come back to tie the game up at some point in the final twenty minutes of regulation. The two

teams reached four different results in those games: (i) Florida won one in regulation (11/27/10); (ii) Reading won one in regulation (12/30/10); (iii) Florida won one in overtime (12/28); and (iv) last Friday, the Everblades won in a shootout.

5. The Royals came back from a three goal deficit (1-4) to pull out the victory over the Florida Everblades last Saturday. That game marked the second time this season-

and the sixth time in the ten year history of the club-that Reading has come back to win from a three goal deficit. Saturday's 5-4 win in Florida marked the thirteenth come-from-behind win of the year for Reading.

6. Ben Gordon had a nine game point streak (8g-6a=14pts) snapped in Wednesday's 7-4 loss in Florida. Gordon, however, proceeded to pick up a pair of assists in Friday's

4-3 SOL and to score two power play goals in Saturday's 5-4 win. Saturday's game was Gordon's third multi-goal game of the year for Reading and his team-leading tenth multi-point performance. Gordon leads the Royals in goals (19), assists (23) and plus-minus (+16). This week Gordon passed Dany Roussin as the second all-time leading

scorer for the Royals organization with 129 points (49g-80a) in 107 career games with the team. He is ten points behind Brad Rooney to become the team's all-time lead-

ing scorer. Gordon was loaned to the Rochester Americans of the AHL, marking his first call-up of the season to the AHL.

7. Yannick Riendeau had a ten game point streak (5g-8a=13pts) snapped on Saturday night. That streak tied Matt Caruana for the team's longest point streak of the sea-

son. Riendeau was awarded the eighteenth penalty shot in team history in Wednesday's game and scored on his opportunity. That was the ninth penalty shot goal in the

organization's ten year history.

8. John Scrymgeour registered his first multi-goal game as a pro in Saturday's 5-4 win. Scrymgeour was selected as a replacement player to represent the Royals in the

2011 ECHL All-Star Classic in Bakersfield, California, this week.

9. Jared Ross completed the Royals' comeback with what proved to be the tie-breaking game winner late in the second period of Saturday's 5-4 win. That marked Ross's first regular season GWG over the last two seasons with Reading. He did, however, score the late-game tie-breaking game winner in Game One of the American Confer-

ence Semi-Final Series against the Florida Everblades last Spring. Ross is the thirteenth different player to score a GWG for the Royals this season. In that game, Ross also

registered a pair of assists, making that game his first three-point game as a pro.

10. Defenseman Cody Wild registered his first multi-point game as a Royal, picking up three assists, including one on the game winner by Jared Ross in Saturday's 5-4 win.

11. The Royals scored five power play goals in seventeen chances with the man advantage in the three games against the Florida Everblades last week. Reading's PP went

2-5 in Friday's SOL and 2-7 in Saturday's win, marking the first time this season that the Royals power play has scored more than one PPG in back-to-back games. Overall, the Royals power play has scored twenty-nine goals in 169 chances with the man advantage this year (17.2% scoring ratio).

12.After tying a season high by giving up three power play goals in Wednesday's 7-4 loss to the Everblades (3-7), the Royals' PK blanked Florida's PP on Friday (0-4) and

Saturday (0-8). The eight kills on Saturday night-which included two long sequences of five-on-three against-marked the high-water mark for the Royals this year in games where they did not give up any PPGsA. Reading's PK, which has blanked the opposition 17 times this year, is killing at an 82.2% clip (35 PPGA in 197 chances).

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