Royals Lead ECHL In 2006-07 Player Call-Ups
April 26, 2007 - ECHL (ECHL)
Reading Royals News Release
Reading, PA - The Reading Royals of the ECHL, affiliate of the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League and the Manchester Monarchs of the American Hockey League, today announced that the Royals led the ECHL with forty-one player call-ups during the 2006-07 season. The Charlotte Checkers were second in call-ups with twenty-seven, while the Johnstown Chiefs and Augusta Lynx had twenty-six call-ups each. The Royals and Chiefs led the league with twenty different players getting the call to the AHL this past season. This marked the second consecutive season in which the Royals have had twenty or more different players called up to the AHL. This past season, Royal players were called up to eight different AHL teams, which tied for the league lead in that category with the Texas Wildcatters and Trenton Titans. A call-up is defined as a player who is reassigned by a National Hockey League team, recalled by an AHL team, or loaned by an ECHL team to an AHL team. An individual player can experience multiple call ups.
The players on the Royals' final roster who were called up to the AHL over the course of this past season were: Shawn Collymore (3, Binghamton Senators); Yutaka Fukufuji (3) (2, Manchester Monarchs) (1, Los Angeles Kings); Shawn Germain (1, Hershey Bears); Lee Green (1, Binghamton Senators); Greg Hogebooom (2, Manchester Monarchs); Charlie Kronschnabel (1, Portland Pirates); Rob LaLonde (2, Binghamton Senators); Ned Lukacevic (1, Manchester Monarchs); Malcolm MacMillan (4) (3, Hershey Bears) (1, Albany River Rats); Jeff Pietrasiak (4) (2, Hershey Bears) (1, Manitoba Moose) (1, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pengins); Dany Roussin (2, Manchester Monarchs); Kevin Saurette (2, Binghamton Senators); Bryan Schmidt (2, Manchester Monarchs); and Eric Werner (2, Manchester Monarchs).
The players who were called up while with the Royals, but were not on the team's final roster were: James Hiebert (2, Manchester Monarchs); Arpad Mihaly (3) (1, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins) (1, Binghamton Senators) (1, Milwaukee Admirals); Ryan Munce (2, Manchester Monarchs); and Reagan Rome (2) (1, Manitoba Moose) (1, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins). Players who were signed to Royals' ECHL contracts and were loaned to AHL teams prior to the start of the season were: Doug Christiansen (1, Manchester Monarchs) and T.J. Kemp (1, Manchester Monarchs).
This past season, goaltender Yutaka Fukufuji became the third player in Royals' team history to play in the National Hockey League in the same season that he played for Reading. (The other two were forward Ryan Flinn and goaltender Mathieu Chouinard.) In addition to Fukufuji, this season also saw four other former Royals play their first NHL game, three of whom (as with Fukufuji) played for last year's team: Barry Brust (Los Angeles Kings), Shay Stephenson (Los Angeles Kings), and Rich Peverley (Nashville Predators). Also, Jeff Finger, who played for the Royals in 2003-04, played his first NHL game with the Colorado Avalanche this past season.
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