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Royals Sign Forward Mac Faulkner

September 8, 2008 - ECHL (ECHL)
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Reading, PA - The Reading Royals of the ECHL, affiliate of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League and the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League, today announced that the team has agreed to terms with forward Mac Faulkner. Last season, Faulkner (6'1/205) (25) scored seventeen goals and assisted on twenty-four others (forty-one points) in fifty-two regular season games for the Columbia Inferno of the ECHL. In the playoffs, Faulkner tied for the team lead with twelve points (5g-7a) in twelve post-season games for the Inferno.

Faulkner, who hails from King City, Ontario, began his pro career in 2005 after a stellar four year career at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York. In 141 collegiate games with the Golden Knights, Faulkner scored thirty-three goals and assisted on fifty others (eighty-three points) and racked up 160 penalty minutes. Faulkner's most productive season at Clarkson came in his junior year when he led the Golden Knights with forty-three points (17g-26a) in forty games and was selected as the team's Most Valuable Player. After his senior season in which he served as the team captain, Faulkner, who was selected to the Eastern College Athletic Conference All-Academic Team three times, received the Paul J. Pilon Memorial Award, which is presented to the senior who excels in hockey and studies while at Clarkson.

Faulkner, who is entering his fourth season as a pro, started his rookie season with the AHL's Binghamton Senators and after five games joined the Long Beach Ice Dogs of the ECHL, where he scored eleven goals and thirty-one points in fifty-nine games. In the summer of 2006, Faulkner was traded by Long Beach to Columbia, where he promptly scored the game winning goal in his first game as a member of the Inferno. In mid-November of that season, Faulkner was selected as the ECHL's In Glas Co Player of the Week when he scored six goals-which included his first pro hattrick-and assisted on another in three games for the Inferno. Faulkner, who earned a late-December three-game call-up to the Toronto Marlies in the AHL, tied for second on the team with 33 assists that season, which included racking up eleven assists over his last eleven games of the regular season.

Last season, Faulkner turned it on late in the season, as well, picking up seventeen points (7g-10a) over a span of eleven games from March 1 through March 26, 2008. He continued his hot hand into the playoffs for the Inferno, scoring the over-time game winner in Game One of the South Division Quarter-Finals against the Florida Everblades. In Game Four of the South Division Semi-Finals against the Texas Wildcatters, Faulkner factored in both goals for the Inferno-including registering an assist on the overtime game winner-in Columbia's dramatic 2-1 overtime win. He then proceeded to bag the game winner himself in the fifth and deciding game for the Inferno in that series. In the South Division Finals against the South Carolina Stingrays, Faulkner racked up six points (1g-5a) in five games, which included a three-assist performance in the Inferno's 5-3 in Game 3, although the Inferno were knocked out in the best-of-five series, three-games-to-two.

The Royals open the 2008-09 regular season against the Elmira Jackals on Friday, October 17, 2008 at First Arena in Elmira, New York. The Royals' home opener is set for Saturday, October 25, 2008, when the Johnstown Chiefs visit the Sovereign Center. Royals' full Season Tickets and Total Choice Flex Plans are now on sale. To obtain more information on becoming a part Royals' hockey, call 610-898-PUCK to speak with Royals' ticket representative or visit the Royals website, www.royalshockey.com.

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