ECHL Reading Royals

Royal Weekly Decree

Published on January 23, 2006 under ECHL (ECHL)
Reading Royals News Release


Last Week Results (1-2-0)

Wednesday January 18, 2006 @ Johnstown Chiefs Loss Royals 1 - Chiefs 5

Friday January 20, 2006 v. Wheeling Nailers Loss Royals 4 - Nailers 6

Saturday January 21, 2006 v. Johnstown Chiefs Win Royals 7 - Chiefs 2

Overall Record (24 - 11 - 2 = 50)

Home Record: (11 - 7 - 1 = 23)

Away Record: (13 - 4 - 1 = 27)

This Week's Games

Saturday January 28, 2006 @ Dayton Bombers E.J. Nutter Center, Dayton 7:00 pm (est)

Royals Notes:

v The Royals went 1-2-0 in the three games played this past week. Reading's record is now 24-11-2=50, which places the Royals in second place in the North Division of the American Conference and translates into a .676 win percentage-which is the eighth best win percentage in the league.

v The Royals suffered losses in the first two games played this week (5-1 @ Johnstown on Wednesday; and 6-4 v. Wheeling on Friday), extending the team's losing streak to a season high three games, a streak which was snapped on Saturday in the 7-2 win over Johnstown.

v Reading's 5-1 loss to the Johnstown Chiefs marked the first time this season that the Royals were defeated by the Chiefs in five games-all five of which had been played to that point at the Cambria County War Memorial Arena in Johnstown.

- The four goal margin of loss suffered by the Royals in Johnstown last Wednesday tied the largest margin of defeat suffered by the Royals this season. (Reading lost to the Wheeling Nailers by a 5-1 score on January 10.)

- The Royals avenged last Wednesday's loss to Johnstown by defeating the Chiefs 7-2 on Saturday night, tying Reading's largest margin of victory (5 goals) this season. (Reading has defeated the opposition by five goals on four separate occasions this season-including another 7-2 win over Johnstown on December 9).

v Wednesday's 5-1 loss to Johnstown marked only the fourth time this season that Reading's offense has been held to one goal or less.

- The seven goals scored by Reading on Saturday in the win over Johnstown tied the team's season high for goals in a single game this season. The Royals have scored seven goals in three separate games this season.

- Over the course of the season, Reading has scored 146 goals in the 37 games, a 3.95 goals per game average, which is third in the ECHL in that category.

v The Royals' lone goal last Wednesday was scored by Doug Christiansen at the 6:18 mark of the second period, to make the score 3-1, Johnstown.

- Although Christiansen was held off the scoreboard in Friday's 6-4 loss to Wheeling, he scored two goals and assisted on two others in Reading's 7-2 win over the Chiefs on Saturday, marking his first four point performance (and his tenth multi-point game) of the season for the Royals.

- Christiansen's second goal in Saturday's win was his twentieth of the season, making him the leading goal scorer for the Royals and the first Reading player this season to reach the twenty-goal plateau.

- Christiansen has picked up 24 points in his last seventeen games with the Royals (13g - 11a = 24 pts).

v In Wednesday's 5-1 loss to Johnstown, the Royals' power play failed to score in six chances with the man advantage.

- In Friday's 6-4 loss to Wheeling, Reading's power play was blanked in seven chances.

- In Saturday's 7-2 win over Johnstown, the Royals power play unit went 0-1, marking the fourth consecutive game in which Reading has failed to score on the power play. (Saturday's game marked the fewest power play opportunities in a single game that the Royals have had all season.)

- The Royals' power play has been held off the board in nine games this season-and six of those games have come over the course of the last nine, beginning with the 4-3 win over Johnstown on January 15. Prior to that game, the Royals had gone twenty-one consecutive games (11/11 - 01/06) in which the team had scored at least one power play goal.

- Over the course of the season, the Royals have scored 46 power play goals in 199 chances with the man advantage, a 23.1% scoring ratio, which is still the top power play unit in the league.

v In Wednesday's 5-1 loss to the Chiefs, the Royals' penalty killing unit gave up one power play goal to the Chiefs in the seven chances they had with the man advantage.

- On Friday night, the Royals pk gave up two goals to the Wheeling Nailers in the seven power play chances they had.

- On Saturday, both of the goals scored by the Chiefs in the 7-2 win by the Royals were scored when Johnstown was on the power play, marking the third time in the last four games that Reading's pk has given up two goals against.

- Over the course of the season, Reading's penalty killers have given up two or more goals ten times.

- Reading's penalty killing unit has been scored upon at least once in nine consecutive games-since the pk blanked the Las Vegas Wranglers in five chances with the man advantage on January 3.

- Over the course of the season, the Royals have allowed 39 power play goals against in 231 chances for the opposition, an 83.9% kill ratio, which ranks the team tenth in the league in that category.

v Royals' defenseman T.J. Kemp, who was selected to represent Reading at the 2006 ECHL All-Star Game presented by Bud Light, was loaned to the Peoria Rivermen of the AHL on Friday, January 20, marking his first call-up to the American Hockey League.

- With his call-up, Kemp became the nineteenth Royal this season to get the call to the AHL.

v In Friday's 6-4 loss to Wheeling on Friday, the Royals' first goal was scored by Chris Bala at the 13:48 mark of the first period to tie the score at one.

- Although Bala had a ten game point streak snapped in the Royals 5-1 loss to Johnstown on Wednesday, he scored a goal (the Royals' fourth at the 18:59 mark of the second period) and assisted on another in Reading's 7-2 win over Johnstown on Saturday.

- Saturday's two point performance for Bala marked his seventh multi-point game in the twenty-two that he's played for Reading this year.

- In his last sixteen games for the Royals, Bala has picked up twenty-two points (11g - 11a = 22pts).

v The Wheeling Nailers scored four goals in the second period on Friday night to build a 5-1 lead after two periods, marking the first time this season that Reading has given up four goals in a single period.

v The Royals' second goal in Friday's 6-4 loss to Wheeling on Friday was scored by Jason Kostadine at the 4:12 mark of the third period to make the scored 5-2, Wheeling.

- Friday's goal was Kostadine's second as a member of the Royals since being picked up from the Stockton Thunder on January 6, nine games ago. (In twenty-seven games with the Thunder, Kostadine did not score a goal.)

v The third goal scored by Reading in the 6-4 loss to the Nailers on Friday was picked up by Brad Sullivan at the 12:03 mark of the third period (to make the score 5-3, Wheeling), while the Royals were skating a man short.

- That marked the first goal of the season for Sullivan, who has played seven games for the Royals this season.

v The Royals' fourth goal on Friday was scored by Stuart Kerr at the 15:01 mark of the third period (to make the score 5-4, Wheeling) while the Royals were skating a man short.

- This marked Kerr's second goal for the Royals this season, and his first short-handed goal as a pro.

- Kerr leads the Royals in plus/minus, playing at a +18 in 33 games.

v The Royals scored back-to-back short-handed goals on Friday night (by Brad Sullivan and Stuart Kerr), marking the second time this season that Reading has picked up two short-handed goals in a single game. (The last time Chris Bala and John Morlang scored shorties in the 6-2 win over Long Beach on December 31.)

- Over the course of the season, Reading has scored ten short-handed goals, which ranks that team tied for third in that category.

- Eight of the Royals' ten short-handed goals have been scored in the last fourteen games.

v The six goals scored by Wheeling on Friday marked only the third time this season that a team has scored six or more goals against the Royals in a single game.

- In the past eight games, the opposition has scored five or more goals against the Royals four times, a feat that has been accomplished only eight times all season long.

- In the past eight games, the Royals have allowed 32 goals against a (4.00 goals against average).

- In the fourteen games played by the Royals through November 30, 2005, Reading had the second best team goals against average in the league at 2.29 and a record of 11-2-1.

- In the twenty-three games since that time, the Royals goals against average has increased to 3.05 (overall) (3.31 in 13 games in December) (3.53 in ten games so far in January) and the team has gone 13-9-1.

v Malcolm MacMillan scored the Royals' first goal at the 12:15 mark of the first period (to tie the score at one) in Saturday's 7-2 win over the Chiefs on Sunday.

- That marked MacMillan's second goal of the season for the Royals, and his first since the third game of the year-a span of twenty four games for him.

v The Royals' second goal in Saturday's 7-2 win was scored by Mike Kompon at the 14:09 mark of the first period to make the score 2-1, Reading.

- Kompon also scored the Royals' third goal on Saturday at the 7:38 mark of the second period (to make the score 3-2), which proved to be the game winner-Kompon's third game winner of the season for Reading (tying him for the team lead in that category).

- This marked Kompon's first multi-goal game of the season for Reading.

- Kompon also assisted on two other goals on Saturday, marking his first four point performance of the season (and his fourteenth multi-point performance for the Royals).

- Kompon is currently riding a twenty game point streak (5g - 27a = 32pts), the longest point streak in the ECHL this season.

- Kompon has had at least one point in 29 of the 33 games that he has played with the Royals this year.

- Kompon is the leading scorer for Reading: 11g - 36a = 47pts.

- 23 of Kompon's 47 points have come on the power play, making him the third leading power play point performer in the league.

- Kompon's 36 assists is tied for the league lead (with Alex Leavitt of the Alaska Aces, who has played in 6 more games than Kompon).

- On Friday of this week, Kompon was selected to replace Kurtis McLean of the Wheeling Nailers (who was with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the AHL at the time that the replacement was announce) in the 2006 ECHL All-Star game presented by Bud Light.

v The Royals' fifth goal on Saturday night at the 19:40 mark of the second period to make the scored 5-2, Reading, was scored by Dany Roussin.

- Roussin also assisted on three other goals that night by the Royals, including the game winner by Mike Kompon.

- Saturday night's four point performance by Dany Roussin marked the first time in his pro career that he has had more than two points in a single game, as well as his first three assist pro performance. (Roussin also played to a plus four in Saturday's game, marking his highest plus/minus performance as a pro.)

- In 21 games with the Royals, Roussin has had six multi-point performances for the team-and all six of those games have come in his last eleven with the Royals. (Roussin has had sixteen points in those eleven games: 7g - 9a = 16pts).

v Yutaka Fukufuji was the Royals' starting goaltender in all three games for the Royals this week. He has now started nine consecutive games for Reading.

- Friday night's 6-4 loss to Wheeling marked the first time this season that the Royals have made an in-game goaltending change, bringing on Brian Gratz for his first appearance with the Royals in the third period of that game. Gratz stopped 9 of the 10 shots he faced in the twenty minutes that he played.

- Over the course of the season, Fukufuji has racked up a record of 9-6-1 with a 3.32 goals against average and a .908 save percentage.

Royals Transactions (01/16/06 - 01/22/06)

January 18 Delete Jamie O'Leary F Released

January 20 Delete T.J. Kemp D Loaned To Peoria Rivermen (AHL)

January 20 Delete Graig Mischler F Released January 20 Add John Morlang F Activated From 7-Day Injured Reserve

January 20 Add Shay Stephenson F Re-Assigned From Manchester Monarchs (AHL)

January 21 Add Brent Ozarowski D Signed To Contract

January 21 Delete Brian Gratz G Released As Emergency Back-Up Goaltender

January 21 Add Brian Gratz G Signed To Contract

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