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Royals Sign Forward Marc Cavosie

September 2, 2009 - ECHL (ECHL)
Reading Royals News Release


Reading, PA - The Reading Royals of the ECHL, affiliate of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League and the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League, today announced that the team has signed forward Marc Cavosie ["kah VOE see"]. Last season, Cavosie (6'0/202) (28), who hails from Albany, New York, split the season between the Albany River Rats and Binghamton Senators in the AHL, scoring ten goals, assisting on seventeen others (twenty-seven points) and picking up twenty-eight penalty minutes in seventy five total games.

Cavosie, who is entering his eighth year of pro hockey, began last season with the River Rats on a tryout agreement and racked up an assist in each of his first two games for Albany. Although he was released by the River Rats on November 10, 2008, he was promptly picked up by the Binghamton Senators. After going ten games without a point for the Senators, Cavosie ran off a four game point streak in mid-December that culminated with a game winning goal and a multi-point performance in Binghamton's 4-1 win over the Bridgeport Sound Tigers on December 20. That proved to be one of three multi-point performances for Cavosie last year, which included a three-assist game in the Senators' 6-3 win over the Norfolk Admirals on February 18, 2009.

This will mark the second trip of Cavosie's career to Reading. He was acquired by the Royals, along with forward Brett Hemingway, from the Columbia Inferno on November 27, 2007, in what was in effect a six player deal involving three different teams. (Hemingway was traded from the Fresno Falcons to Columbia for defenseman Bryan Rodney; Cavosie and Hemingway were then traded to Reading for forward Matt Stefanishion and defenseman Donny Grover; and then Stefanishion was traded to Fresno for defenseman Dan Glover.) Cavosie promptly went on a tear for the Royals, scoring a goal in his second game with the team and picking up a multi-point game in his third. Cavosie ultimately racked up twenty-three points in twenty-four games for Reading, which included sixteen points (6g-10a) in his last eleven games with the team. On February 25, 2008, he was loaned to Albany in the AHL where he stuck for the remainder of the season, adding on twelve points (4g-8a) in sixteen regular season games. After recovering from a late season injury, Cavosie re-joined the River Rats for their epic East Division Semi-Final playoff match-up against the Philadelphia Phantoms, which went seven games and included the longest game in AHL history. In fact, in Game Five of that series, Cavosie bagged a couple of assists, but it was the Phantoms who celebrated that night when Philadelphia's Ryan Potulny scored 2:58 into the fifth overtime.

Cavosie, a fourth round pick of the Minnesota Wild in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft, kicked off his pro career on a high note in 2002-03 as a member of the Houston Aeros' Calder Cup Championship team. Cavosie, who has played over 400 regular season pro games (343 in the AHL), turned pro after spending three seasons at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (R.P.I.), where he scored a total of forty-eight goals and added sixty-one assists (109 points) in ninety-seven total collegiate games. In his final season at RPI, Cavosie was selected as the Eastern College Athletic Conference Player of the Year and a Hobey Baker Award Finalist after a season in which he racked up fifty points (23g-27a=50pts) in thirty-six games.

The Royals open the 2009-10 ECHL season on Thursday, October 15, 2009 (7:05 pm) when the Kalamazoo Wings make their first visit ever to the Sovereign Center in Reading, Pennsylvania. Season tickets for the Royals' 2009-10 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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