ECHL Reading Royals

Royals Looking for That Number One Spot

Published on February 6, 2006 under ECHL (ECHL)
Reading Royals News Release


Last Week Results (2-0-1)

Wednesday February 1, 2006 @ Toledo Storm OTL Royals 3 - Storm 4

Friday February 3, 2006 @ Wheeling Nailers Win Royals 3 - Nailers 2 (ot)

Saturday February 4, 2006 v. Wheeling Nailers Win Royals 3 - Nailers 1

Overall Record (27 - 11 - 3 = 57)

Home Record: (12 - 7 - 1 = 25)

Away Record: (15 - 4 - 2 = 32)

This Week's Games

Tuesday February 7, 2006 v. Johnstown Chiefs Sovereign Center, Reading 7:00 pm (est)

Friday February 10, 2006 @ Greenville Grrrowl Bi-Lo Center, Greenville, SC 7:00 pm (est)

Saturday February 11, 2006 v. Toledo Storm Sovereign Center, Reading 7:00 pm (est)

Sunday February 12, 2006 v. Toledo Storm Sovereign Center, Reading 1:00 pm (est)

Royals Notes:

v The Royals went 2-0-1 in the three games played this past week. Reading's record is now 27-11-3=57, which places the Royals in second place in the North Division of the American Conference and translates into a .695 win percentage-which is the fifth best win percentage in the league.

v Reading is currently riding a five game unbeaten streak (4-0-1). The longest unbeaten streak of this season for Reading is seven games (7-0-0), a streak which the team put together from November 11 through November 26.

v Two of the three games this past week were played on the road-the 4-3 overtime loss in Toledo on Wednesday and the 3-2 overtime win in Wheeling on Friday. The Royals are now 15-4-2 in games played on the road this season.

- Reading is 12-2-1 in the last fifteen games played on the road.

v In all three games this week, the Royals scored the game's first goal. Over the course of the season, Reading has compiled a record of 17-1-3 when scoring first.

v In the 4-3 overtime loss to Toledo last Wednesday, the Royals' Shay Stephenson scored the game's first goal at the 1:12 mark of the first period.

- Stephenson also scored the game's first goal at the 7:02 mark of the second period in the Royals' 3-2 overtime win on Friday night against the Wheeling Nailers.

- Stephenson also scored Reading's third goal (to make the score 3-0) at the 10:41 mark of the second period, while the teams were skating four aside, in the Royals' 3-1 win over Wheeling on Saturday.

- Stephenson is currently riding a four game goal scoring streak.

- In the six games he has played for Reading since being re-assigned from the Manchester Monarchs on January 20, Stephenson has racked up eight points (4g - 4a = 8pts).

v The Royals' second goal (which tied the score at two) in last Wednesday's 4-3 overtime loss to the Toledo Storm was scored by Dany Roussin while the Royals were on a five-on-three power play with 39 seconds remaining in the second period.

- Roussin also scored the game's first goal at the 3:29 mark of the first period in Reading's 3-1 win over Wheeling on Saturday night.

- Roussin also picked up an assist on the Royals' second goal (scored by Doug Christiansen at the 10:19 mark of the second period) which gave Reading a 2-1 lead in the 3-2 overtime win in Wheeling on Friday.

- Roussin is currently riding a five game point streak during which he has picked up 8 points (3g - 5a = 8pts).

- In his last eleven games, Roussin has picked up sixteen points (7g - 9a = 16pts), and he has had at least one point in 20 of the 25 games that he has played with Reading this year.

v The Royals third goal in Wednesday's 4-3 overtime loss to Toledo was scored by Mike Kompon at the 12:13 mark of the third period to make the score 3-2, Reading.

- Kompon also assisted on Dany Roussin's goal (the Royals' second) in Wednesday's game.

- Kompon also picked up an two assists-including one on John Morlang's overtime game winner-in Reading's 3-2 overtime win over Wheeling on Friday.

- With his multi-point games on Wednesday and Friday, Kompon has now had 16 multi-point games with the Royals this year.

- Kompon also picked up an assist on the Royals' first goal (scored by Dany Roussin) in Saturday's 3-1 win over Wheeling, extending Kompon's personal point streak to a league high 23 games, during which he has accumulated 37 points (6g - 31a = 37pts).

- Kompon has had at least one point in 32 of the 36 games he has played with the Royals this year.

- Over the course of the season, Kompon has picked up 40 assists which currently places him in second place in that category in the ECHL this year.

- Kompon is the Royals' leading scorer with 52 points (12g - 40a = 52pts).

v The Royals' 4-3 overtime loss to the Toledo Storm on Wednesday night marked the second time this season that Reading has lost a game in overtime. (The Royals' other loss in overtime this year came in a 7-6 OTL to the Fresno Falcons on December 17, 2005.)

- The Royals' 3-2 overtime win on Friday night in Wheeling marked the Royals' third overtime win of the year-and the first OTW for the team on the road. (The Royals beat the Trenton Titans in overtime, 2-1, in Reading's home opener on October 29; and they beat the Storm, 3-2, in overtime at the Sovereign Center on November 25).

v The Royals' allowed 49 shots against in the 4-3 OTL to Toledo on Wednesday, which tied the season high for most shots against Reading this year. (Johnstown also fired 49 shots on Yutaka Fukufuji in the Royals' 4-3 win in Johnstown on January 6.)

- The Storm took 25 shots on goal in the second period in Wednesday's game, establishing a season high for shots against the Royals in a single period.

- Over the course of the season, the Royals have averaged giving up 33.27 shots against per game, which places the team seventeenth out of the twenty five teams in the league in this category.

v The Royals' second goal (which gave Reading a 2-1 lead) in Friday's 3-2 overtime win over the Wheeling Nailers was scored by Doug Christiansen at the 10:19 mark of the second period.

- Christiansen's goal on Friday night was his team leading twenty-first of the season.

- Christiansen also picked up two assists in Wednesday's 4-3 overtime loss to the Toledo Storm. (This marked Christiansen's twelfth multi-point performance of the season for Reading.)

- In his last twenty games with the Royals, Christiansen has picked up twenty-eight points (14g - 14a = 28pts).

- After Friday's 3-2 overtime win in Wheeling, Christiansen was loaned to the Hershey Bears, marking his second call-up of the season to the American Hockey League.

v The overtime game winner in Friday's 3-2 win over Wheeling was scored by John Morlang with 41 seconds left in the overtime session.

- This marked the second overtime game winner of the season for Morlang, who also bagged the gwg in Reading's 3-2 overtime victory against the Toledo Storm on November 25.

- In his last twenty games with the Royals, John Morlang has picked up seventeen points (8g - 9a = 17pts).

v The game winning goal in the Royals' 3-1 win over the Wheeling Nailers was scored by Jeff State while Reading was playing a man short at the 6:24 mark of the second period.

- This was State's second goal of the season for the Royals; his first short-handed goal; and his first game winning goal.

- With this game winning goal, State became the fourteenth player to score a game winning goal for the Royals this year.

v Jeff State's short-handed game winning goal on Saturday night was the twelfth short-handed goal of the season for the Royals, placing them second amongst the twenty five teams in the ECHL in that category.

- Ten of the twelve short-handed goals scored by the Royals this year have been scored in the team's last nineteen games, dating back to a 3-2 loss to the Fresno Falcons on December 18, 2005.

- Four of Reading's twelve short-handed goals this year have proven to be game winners.

v Grant Jacobsen assisted on all three goals scored by the Royals in Saturday's 3-1 win on Saturday.

- This marked the fifth time this season that Jacobsen has racked up three points in a single game-and the second time this year he has had three assists in a game, the other being the Royals' 6-1 win over the South Carolina Stingrays on November 19.

v Yutaka Fukufuji played all three games for the Royals this week. Fukufuji has now played thirteen consecutive games for the Royals, dating back to a 4-3 win at Johnstown on January 6.

- Fukufuji is currently riding a five game unbeaten streak (4-0-1).

- Over the course of the season, Fukufuji has a record of 12-6-2 with a goals against average of 3.08 and a save percentage of .914.

v The Royals defense allowed just one goal against in Saturday's win over the Nailers, marking the sixth time this season that Reading has allowed one goal or less in a game.

- Over the course of the season, the Royals have allowed a total of 122 goals against in 41 games, a 2.98 team goals against average, which ranks the team seventh in the league in that category.

v In Saturday's 3-1 win over the Wheeling Nailers, the Royals' penalty killing unit faced a season-high thirteen opportunities with the man advantage against-killing twelve of those.

- The Royals pk allowed only one goal against in the 26 chances with the man advantage allowed to the opponents in the three games played this past week.

- Over the course of the season, the Royals have allowed 41 power play goals against in 264 chances for the opponents an 84.5% kill ratio, which ranks the team sixth in the league in that category.

Royals Transactions (01/30/06 - 02/05/06)

01/29/2006 Delete T.J. KEMP D Loaned to Iowa (AHL) 01/30/2006 Delete BRENT OZAROWSKI F Released 01/30/2006 Add MIKE KOMPON F Returned from Hershey (AHL) 01/31/2006 Add NICK VUKOVIC F Acquired In Trade from Pensacola (ECHL) 01/31/2006 Delete STUART KERR D Traded To Pensacola (ECHL) 01/31/2006 Add JOHN MORLANG F Returned from Lowell (AHL) 02/03/2006 Delete DOUG CHRISTIANSEN F Loaned To Hershey (AHL)

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