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Royals Announce 2011-12 Regular Season Schedule

June 1, 2011 - ECHL (ECHL)
Reading Royals News Release


Reading, PA - The Reading Royals of the ECHL today announced the team's 2011-12 regular season schedule. For the ninth time in the eleven year history of the team, the Royals' 72-game regular season schedule opens on the road-this year, for the first time ever, at the North Charleston Coliseum in North Charleston, South Carolina, on Friday, October 14, 2011, against the three-time Kelly Cup champion South Carolina Stingrays. Reading's regular season wraps up on Saturday, March 31, 2012, when the Royals host the Trenton Devils at the Sovereign Center in Reading, Pennsylvania. After kicking off the season with a two-game southern swing, the Royals return to the Sovereign Center for the eleventh home opener in team history on Saturday, October 22, when the team's perennial playoff nemesis, the Cincinnati Cyclones, make their only trip of the regular season to the Sovereign Center. The Royals 2011-12 regular season schedule, which is set out in full below, is also available on the team's website at https://www.royalshockey.com/201112Schedule.asp.

All seventy-two of Reading's regular season games this year are against opponents from the Eastern Conference. The Royals face each of the eleven teams in the East at least twice, including the newest addition to the Conference, the Chicago Express, who the Royals play four times in 2011-12. Although divisional alignment is still pending determination by the ECHL Board of Governors, the Royals play forty-two total regular season games against three opponents: the Elmira Jackals (16), the Trenton Devils (13) and the Wheeling Nailers (13). The Royals play three different teams only twice: the Cincinnati Cyclones, the Gwinnett Gladiators, and the team that knocked Reading out of the 2011 ECHL Kelly Cup playoffs, the Kalamazoo Wings.

Royals fans will get a chance to see each of the eleven other teams in the East at the Sovereign Center this year, including the Express who make their debut appearance in Reading on Wednesday, November 23. The Royals have four separate sequences during the season in which the team plays three or more consecutive games at the Sovereign Center. The longest home stand of the season-which is four games in length-kicks off with the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday matinee game on Monday, January 16, 2012, when Royals take on the Stingrays at 1:05 pm. For the first time in team history, Reading will also host another Monday holiday matinee game at 1:05 pm on President's Day (February 20), when the Jackals make one of their nine appearances at the Sovereign Center. The busiest month of the season at home for Reading will come in the regular season's final stanza-March-when ten of the fifteen games played by the team will be held at the Sovereign Center.

Consistent with the home side of the schedule, the Royals also get the opportunity to play in the home barns of all eleven opponents in the East. Reading will hit the ice for the first time in team history at the Sears Center in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, on Friday, January 6 and 7, when the Royals are set to play a two game set against Chicago. Continuing a tradition begun last year, the Royals will play two of their seven road games scheduled against the Wheeling Nailers at historic Cambria County War Memorial Arena in Johnstown, Pennsylvania (Friday, December 16 and Sunday, February 12). The longest road trip of the year extends for five games starting in Greenville, South Carolina, on Friday, November 4, and concluding with one of the Royals' seven trips to First Arena in Elmira, New York (Friday, November 11). The Royals will have their bags packed most frequently during the month of November, when they play 8 of 13 games on the road.

Fifty-seven of the Royals seventy-two regular season games this year fall on weekend dates with twenty-four Fridays-sixteen of which are to be played on the road-leading the way in that category. The busiest day of the week this year at the Sovereign Center will be Saturday, when the Royals suit up for twelve prime-time home contests, including four in the month of March. Tuesday through Saturday game times at the Sovereign Center will remain consistent with seasons' of recent memory with the puck dropping on the opening face-off at 7:05 pm. This year, Sunday games at the Sovereign Center will start at 4:05 pm.

The Royals full 2010-11 ECHL Regular Season Schedule, which includes the two currently schedule pre-season games, is set out below. Please note that all game times are subject to change.

READING ROYALS 2011-12 SCHEDULE (Game Times are Eastern Time Zone)

Pre-Season Game No. 1, Saturday, October 8, 2011 @ Trenton Devils (TBD) *(Bristol, PA)

Pre-Season Game No. 2, Sunday, October 9, 2011 v Trenton Devils (4:05 pm) (Sovereign Center)

Friday, October 14, 2011 @ South Carolina Stingrays (7:05 pm)

Saturday, October 15, 2011 @ Greenville Road Warriors (7:35 pm)

Saturday, October 22, 2011 v Cincinnati Cyclones (7:05 pm)

Sunday, October 23, 2011 v Florida Everblades (4:05 pm)

Thursday, October 27, 2011 v South Carolina Stingrays (7:05 pm)

Friday, October 28, 2011 @ Trenton Devils (7:00 pm)

Saturday, October 29, 2011 v Gwinnett Gladiators (7:05 pm)

Friday, November 4, 2011 @ Greenville Road Warriors (7:35 pm)

Saturday, November 5, 2011 @ Gwinnett Gladiators (7:05 pm)

Sunday, November 6, 2011 @ South Carolina Stingrays (4:05 pm)

Wednesday, November 9, 2011 @ Trenton Devils (7:00 pm)

Friday, November 11, 2011 @ Elmira Jackals (7:35 pm)

Saturday, November 12, 2011 v Elmira Jackals (7:05 pm)

Sunday, November 13, 2011 v Elmira Jackals (7:05 pm)

Friday November 18, 2011 @ Cincinnati Cyclones (7:35 pm)

Saturday, November 19, 2011 @ Toledo Walleye (7:00 pm)

Wednesday, November 23, 2011 v Chicago Express (7:05 pm)

Friday, November 25, 2011 v Chicago Express (7:05 pm)

Saturday, November 26, 2011 @ Elmira Jackals (7:35 pm)

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 v Elmira Jackals (7:05 pm)

Friday, December 2, 2011 v Wheeling Nailers (7:05 pm)

Saturday, December 3, 2011 @ Elmira Jackals (7:35 pm)

Thursday, December 8, 2011 v Trenton Devils (7:05 pm)

Friday, December 9, 2011 @ Wheeling Nailers (7:35 pm)

Sunday, December 11, 2011 v Wheeling Nailers (7:05 pm)

Friday, December16, 2011 @ Wheeling Nailers (7:35 pm) *(@ Johnstown, PA)

Saturday, December 17, 2011 v Wheeling Nailers (7:05 pm)

Thursday, December 22, 2011 @ Greenville Road Warriors (7:35 pm)

Friday, December 23, 2011 @ Greenville Road Warriors (7:35 pm)

Wednesday, December 28, 2011 v Elmira Jackals (7:05 pm)

Friday, December 30, 2011 v Trenton Devils (7:05 pm)

Saturday, December 31, 2011 @ Wheeling Nailers (TBD)

Friday, January 6, 2012 @ Chicago Express (7:30 pm)

Saturday, January 7, 2012 @ Chicago Express (7:30 pm)

Friday, January 13, 2012 v Elmira Jackals (7:05 pm)

Saturday, January 14, 2012 @ Trenton Devils (7:00 pm)

Monday, January 16, 2012 v South Carolina Stingrays (1:05 pm)

Friday, January 20, 2012 v Kalamazoo Wings (7:05 pm)

Saturday, January 21, 2012 v Toledo Walleye (7:05 pm)

Wednesday, January 25, 2012 v Wheeling Nailers (7:05 pm)

Friday, January 27, 2012 @ Wheeling Nailers (7:35 pm)

Saturday, January 28, 2012 @ Toledo Walleye (7:00 pm)

Sunday, January 29, 2012 @ Kalamazoo Wings (4:00 pm)

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 @ Florida Everblades (7:30 pm)

Friday, February 3, 2012 @ Florida Everblades (7:30 pm)

Saturday, February 4, 2012 @ Florida Everblades (7:00 pm)

Friday, February 10, 2012 v Elmira Jackals (7:05 pm)

Saturday, February 11, 2012 v Elmira Jackals (7:05 pm)

Sunday, February 12, 2012 @ Wheeling Nailers (TBD) *(@ Johnstown, PA)

Wednesday, February 14, 2012 @ Trenton Devils (7:00 pm)

Friday, February 17, 2012 @ Trenton Devils (7:00 pm)

Saturday, February 18, 2012 v Wheeling Nailers (7:05 pm)

Monday, February 20, 2012 v Elmira Jackals (1:05 pm)

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 @ Trenton Devils (7:00 pm)

Friday, February 24, 2012 @ Elmira Jackals (7:35 pm)

Saturday, February 25, 2012 v Greenville Road Warriors (7:05 pm)

Sunday, February 26, 2012 v Greenville Road Warriors (7:05 pm)

Friday, March 2, 2012 @ Elmira Jackals (7:35 pm)

Saturday, March 3, 2012 v Elmira Jackals (7:05 pm)

Sunday, March 4, 2012 @ Elmira Jackals (4:05 pm)

Friday, March 9, 2012 v Toledo Walleye (7:05 pm)

Saturday, March 10, 2012 v Trenton Devils (7:05 pm)

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 v Florida Everblades (7:05 pm)

Friday, March 16, 2012 @ Wheeling Nailers (7:35 pm)

Saturday, March 17, 2012 v Wheeling Nailers (7:05 pm)

Sunday, March 18, 2012 v Florida Everblades (4:05 pm)

Friday, March 23, 2012 v Trenton Devils (7:05 pm)

Saturday, March 24, 2012 @ Trenton Devils (7:00 pm)

Sunday, March 25, 2012 v Trenton Devils (4:05 pm)

Wednesday, March 28, 2012 v Wheeling Nailers (7:05 pm)

Friday, March 30, 2012 @ Elmira Jackals (7:35 pm)

Saturday, March 31, 2012 v Trenton Devils (7:05 pm)

Season Tickets for the 2011-12 Reading Royals ECHL season are currently available. Call 610-898-7825 for more information or log onto www.royalshockey.com .

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