ECHL Reading Royals

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Published on October 31, 2005 under ECHL (ECHL)
Reading Royals News Release


Last Week Results (1-0-1)

Friday October 28, 2005 SOL

Reading 5 @ Wheeling 6

Saturday October 29, 2005 Win

Reading 2 @ Wheeling 1 (ot)

Overall Record (2-0-1)

Home Record (1-0-0)

Away Record (1-0-1)

This Week's Games

Friday November 4, 2005 @ Greenville

Grrrowl BI-LO Center 7:00 pm

Saturday November 5, 2005 @ Dayton

Bombers Ervin J. Nutter Center 7:00 pm

Sunday November 6, 2005 @ Toledo Storm

Toledo Sports Arena 3:05 pm

Royals Notes:

After the shoot out loss and overtime win this week, the Royals overall record is 2-0-1=5, placing the team in a tie for third place in the North Division of the American Conference.

In both games this past week, the 6-5 shootout loss to the Wheeling Nailers and the 2-1 overtime victory over the Trenton Titans, the Royals scored the game's first goal. Last year, the Royals went 36-5-3 when scoring first.

Through the first three games of the season, the Royals have scored a total of ten goals, and those goals have been scored by eight different players.

In Friday's 6-5 loss to Wheeling on Friday, the five goals scored by Reading were scored by five different players: John Morlang, Grant Jacobsen, Doug Christiansen, Rich Peverley, and Greg Hogeboom.

John Morlang's goal at the 1:52 mark of the second period on Friday was his first ECHL goal since the 2003-04 season when he scored 19 in 70 games for the Columbus Inferno.

Last year, Morlang scored 16 goals in 36 games with Danbury of the United Hockey League and 6 in 46 games with Bridgeport in the American Hockey League.

Grant Jacobsen's unassisted goal 5:11 into the second period gave the Royals a 2-0 lead in Wheeling on Friday. That was Jacobsen's first goal as professional.

Jacobsen assisted on Morlang's goal earlier in the period for his first assist as a pro.

After Wheeling came back to tie things at two, Doug Christiansen's power play goal at the 12:35 mark of the second period in Wheeling put the Royals back in the lead at 3-2.

That was the only power play goal of the evening for the Royals in five attempts with the man advantage.

With 5:05 remaining in the second period on Friday, the Royals went up 4-2 on Rich Peverley's first goal of the season.

On Friday, Peverley also assisted on Doug Christiansen's power play goal earlier in the period. For Peverley, that was his second multi-point performance in two games for the Royals. (He had two assists in the season opening 3-2 win in Johnstown.)

Peverley also scored the game winner 2:27 into overtime in the Royals' 2-1 victory over Trenton in Reading's home opener on Saturday night.

In both games this past week, the Royals led the game entering the third period. On Friday, the Royals entered the third period leading by a score of 4-2. Reading also led by a score of 1-0 entering the third period in Saturday's 2-1 overtime win over Trenton.

Last season, the Royals had a record of 30-1-2 when leading after two periods.

In both games this weekend, the Royals were outscored by the opponent in the third period: 1-3 against Wheeling on Friday; and 0-1 against Trenton on Saturday.

The Royals outscored Johnstown 2-1 in the third period in the season opening 3-2 win over Johnstown.

In total this season, the Royals have been outscored in the third period, 3 to 5.

Last season, the Royals outscored the opponents 70-54 in the third period.

The Wheeling Nailers tied Friday's game at four on an unassisted short-handed goal by Tim Verbeek at the 8:08 mark of the third period.

That was the first short-handed goal of the season given up by the Royals.

Last year, Reading allowed nine short-handed goals, which ranked the team fifteenth in the league in that category.

The Royals took a 5-4 lead with 5:11 remaining in regulation on Friday when Greg Hogeboom scored his first goal of the season. That was Hogeboom's first goal as a Royal and second as a pro.

Last year, he scored a goal in 14 games with Manchester in the AHL.

Wheeling's Kurtis McLean scored with 1:47 remaining in regulation on Friday, tying the game at five and sending it to overtime.

Friday's game was the first overtime experience for the Royals this season, and neither team scored during the five minute extra frame.

The Royals lost their first shootout experience of the season in Wheeling on Friday. It took seven rounds to resolve the shootout. The Royals' shooters were: Rich Peverley (missed), Jon Francisco (scored), Mike Pandolfo (missed), Mike Kompon (scored), John Morlang (missed), Eric Werner (missed), and Greg Hogeboom (missed).

Reading goaltender, Yutaka Fukufuji got his first start as a Royal on Friday. He stopped 40 of the 45 shots that he saw in the 65 minutes of game time and four of the seven shots he faced in the shootout.

On Friday, Wheeling out-shot Reading 45 to 28. So far, that's the only game in which the Royals have been outshot. Last season, the Royals were 16-6-5 when out-shot by the opponent.

In Saturday's 2-1 overtime victory over Trenton, the Royals' got on the board first at the 11:52 mark of the second period, when Eric Werner scored his first goal as a professional.

So far this season, three Royals have scored their first pro goal: Shay Stephenson, Grant Jacobsen, and Eric Werner.

Saturday's overtime win for Reading was the second game in a row that ended regulation time in a tie and the first Royals' game of the season that was actually resolved in the OT.

Last season, the Royals compiled a 1-2 record in games resolved in overtime.

On Saturday, the Royals had nine opportunities on the power play and were unable to capitalize on any of them.

Including Friday night's game in Wheeling, the Royals have now gone eleven consecutive power plays without scoring a ppg.

Overall, the Royals are 2-19 with the man advantage-a 10.52 scoring percentage-which ranks the team 19th in the league in that category.

Last season, the Royals went 71 for 389 on the power play, an 18.3 per cent scoring ratio, which ranked the team seventh in the league.

On Saturday, the Royals did not allow a power play goal in six chances for the Titans.

Including Friday night's game, Reading's pk unit has now gone ten consecutive power plays against without allowing a goal.

Over the course of the season, the Royals have allowed just two power play goals in 18 chances for the opponents, an 88.88% kill ratio-which ranks the club fourth in the league in that category.

Cody Rudkowsky was in goal for Royals in the 2-1 overtime win against Trenton on Saturday. Rudkowsky is now 2-0-0 for the Royals.

Last season, Rudkowsky was 0-1 in overtime games for the Royals.

Rudkowsky has made 37 stops on the 40 shots taken upon him in his first two games of the season, for a 1.44 goals against average and a .925 save percentage.

The Royals had a sell-out crowd at the Sovereign Center for Saturday's home game with 7,024 in attendance. Last season, the Royals ranked fourth in the league in overall attendance, averaging 5,412 per game.

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