Royals Come Back to Take out Trenton, 3-2
December 4, 2010 - ECHL (ECHL)
Reading Royals News Release
Trenton, NJ - The Reading Royals of the ECHL (2nd Atlantic Division, 13-7-0-026), 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 (3rd Atlantic Division, 8-10-0-117), 3-2, at Sun National Bank Center in Trenton, New Jersey. The Royals fell behind 2-0 after one, but pulled out the team's fourth come-from-behind win of the year by running off the game's last three goals. This marked the second consecutive 3-2 win for the Royals in Trenton in which Reading picked up a third period tie-breaking game winner-this one by Rob Slaney. With this win, the Royals are 10-2-0-0 in the team's last twelve games and 12-3-0-0 in the last fifteen. Goaltender Ben Scrivens (win, 6-3-0-0, 38/40) won his fifth straight for Reading. Trenton's Shane Connelly (loss, 2-5-1-0, 31/34) lost for the second time this year to Reading (the other also coming in a 3-2 score when he was with the South Carolina Stingrays). The Royals game-tying goal was scored with the man advantage (1-4). The Devils scored four seconds after the conclusion of a power play, but otherwise were held off the board with the man advantage (0-3).
Trenton struck 5:40 into the first when Ryan Ginand fired from low in the left circle. Scrivens made the save, but the rebound fell to the low right slot, where Ryan Hayes got a shot that was blocked; but the puck slid to the top of the crease where a Royals' player had a chance to clear, but misfired and knocked it into the net. The goal was credited as Hayes' sixth of the season. Late in the period, Trenton was awarded a power play chance. The Devils created several quality chances and four seconds after the power play expired, Jeff Prough fired a shot from low on the left side that snuck in on the short side for Prough's seventh of the season.
Reading broke through 6:32 into the second, three seconds after a power play chance for Reading expired. Eric Castonguay fired a cross-ice pass from just inside the blue line on the left circle to Yannick Riendeau in the right circle. Riendeau fired a hard snap shot that hit Connolly in the shoulder and fluttered into the net for Riendeau's third of the night. The Royals tied the game with a power play goal late in the second. Reading created a multi-shot opportunity from in tight which ended when Ryan Cruthers slid a cross-crease pass to Ben Gordon who punched it in for his seventh of the year.
The Royals got what proved to be the game winner twenty-eight seconds into the third. Right off the face-off to start the third, the line of Casey Haines, Devin Timberlake, and Rob Slaney got the puck deep and pressed hard over the fore-check. Timberlake created a turnover and Haines picked up the puck behind the net and slipped a pass to the low slot, where Slaney stepped in and fired it in for his first of the year. Reading held the Devils off the board down the stretch, running the team's record to 6-5-0-0 against Atlantic Division opponents and 3-2-0-0 against Trenton.
The Royals are off until Thursday (December 9, 2010 @ 7:05) when they'll face the South Carolina Stingrays at the Sovereign Center for the third time this season. The Royals game night broadcast will kick off with the pre-game warm-up show presented by The Works at Wyomissing on the Royals Broadcast Network (WRAW 1340 am in Reading, www.1340wraw.com) at 6:35 pm. 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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