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Royals Bag Another Comeback Win in Trenton, 6-3

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


Trenton, NJ - The Reading Royals of the ECHL (1st Atlantic Division, 44-22-2-3=93), affiliate of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League and the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League, defeated the Trenton Devils (4th North Division, 26-37-2-6=60), 6-3, at Sun National Bank Center in Trenton, New Jersey. The victory, which stretched the team's current win streak to four, established a new team record for regular season wins (44). The Royals had to come back from two separate deficits to pick up the team's nineteenth come-from-behind win of the season.

For the third consecutive game (and the sixth time this season), goaltender Matt Dalton (win, 20-11-1-0, 41/44) made over forty saves to register his second consecutive twenty-win season with the Royals. Trenton's Dave Caruso (loss, 5-16-1-3; 19/23) dropped to 0-4-0-1 against the Royals. Reading's first goal was scored while playing with the man advantage (1-2). The Royals' PK knocked off both power play chances for the Devils.

Trenton took their first lead of the game 11:27 into the first period, when a neutral zone turnover provided Jeff Prough with a chance to carry deep on the left wing side. Prough sent a shot on net, which Dalton stopped; but the rebound slid to the right side of the crease, where it angled off the skates of Ryan Hayes and fluttered into the air. Hayes batted it out of mid-air and in for his twenty-third of the year. Reading tied the game 15:57 into the game while playing with the man advantage. Ryan Cruthers won an offensive zone face-off to the right point, where Rob Kwiet walked the line and fired a wrister towards the net. Olivier Labelle, who was cutting across the top of the crease, re-directed Kwiet's shot through Caruso for his twentieth of the year.

The Devils took their second lead of the game 14:52 into the second, after a scramble in the crease. It appeared that Dalton had the puck covered, but Prough somehow pried it loose and forced it in for his twenty-third of the season. The Royals tied it back up with 40 seconds left in the second, when defenseman Mike Little carried the puck deep into the right corner, where Chris Blight took possession and fed to the top of the crease where Andrew Sarauer powered his way for position, took the puck out of his skates and back-handed his twenty-fourth of the year into the net.

124 into the third, Chris Blight gave Reading the team's first lead of the night, when he carried across the offensive blue line and fired a hard snap shot through a defender that somehow slipped through Caruso for Blight's twenty-fourth of the year. The Royals stretched their lead to 4-2 1:44 later after a aggressive forecheck got the puck pinballing around the left side of the Devils net, which ended when Casey Haines fired across the body of Caruso for his eighteenth of the year. Trenton drew back within one (4-3) with just 2:16 left in regulation, when J.S. Berube tried to wrap one around and stuff it in the Royals' net; but the puck slid off his stick to the top of the crease, where Prough stepped in and jammed it in for his second of the game. The Devils pressed, but the Royals bagged a pair of empty netters down the stretch from Blight and Sarauer (which was a short-handed empty netter) to ice the team's twenty-second road win in the last away game of the regular season (22-11-1-2).

The Royals complete regular season tomorrow night (Saturday, April 2 @ 7:05pm) at the Sovereign Center, when the team will celebrate Fan Appreciation Night presented by WAWA. The game night broadcast will kick off with the pre-game warm-up show presented by The Works at Wyomissing at 6:35 pm on WRAW 1340 am and on the internet at www.1340wraw.com. You can also catch all of the Royals away games this season on Royals TV exclusively on BCTV courtesy of Boscov's Travel, and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. Season tickets for the Royals' 2010-11 season are currently available. To become a part of Royals hockey, call 610-898-PUCK or log onto www.royalshockey.com.

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