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The Royal Road Ahead: Reading Royals at Colorado Eagles (Wednesday,

November 2, 2016 - ECHL (ECHL)
Reading Royals News Release


The Royal Road Ahead Reading Kicks Off November with First Game in Team History in Loveland, Colorado

READING ROYALS @ COLORADO EAGLES BUDWEISER EVENTS CENTER - LOVELAND, CO Game Time 9:05 PM et - Royals Broadcast: 8:35 PM et

REA Game No. 7: 3- 2 - 0 - 1 = 7 (t-3, NORTH) Road Game No. 5: 2 - 1 - 0 - 1 COL Game No. 8: 4 -1 - 1 - 1 = 10 (t-1, MOUNTAIN) Home Game No. 5: 3 - 1 - 0 - 0

Head-to-Head Game No. 1 of 1 (0 @ REA) (1 @ COL) REA v COL: 0 - 0 - 0 - 0

NEXT GAME BETWEEN READING AND COLORADO Tonight's Matchup is the Only Game of Regular Season Between Royals and Eagles

ROYALS' NEXT GAME Friday, November 4 @ Rapid City Rushmore Plaza Civic Center - Rapid City, SD (9:05 et)

ROYALS BROADCAST

AUDIO: iHeartRadio - Rumba 1340 in Reading

TELEVISION: Royals' Road Games are televised locally in Berks County, Pennsylvania on BCTV, which Can Found at Comcast Reading Cable Channel 15, Service Electric Cable Channel 19, Comcast Southern Berks Channel 965

STREAMING VIDEO: ECHL.TV powered by NeuLion (Pay-Per-View)

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Tonight, the Royals visit the Budweiser Event Center in Loveland, Colorado, where the team will face-off against the Colorado Eagles for the first time in team history. This is the only matchup of the regular season between the Eagles and the Royals.

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Reading also reaches the half-way mark-game four-of the team's season-long eight game road trip with tonight's game. The roadie with three straight in Boise, Idaho where Reading went 1-1-0-1 against the Idaho Steelheads. After tonight, the Royals will play a pair against the Rapid City Rush in Rapid City, South Dakota (November 4 and 5); travel to Cincinnati for one (next Wednesday, November 9); and then will then finish the trip with the second game of the year at WesBanco Arena in Wheeling, West Virginia on Friday, November 11.

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This marks only the second time in team history that the Royals have gone for as long as eight consecutive games on the road. In the 2004-05 season, Reading played eight straight away from home ice in cities as geographically disparate as Toledo, Ohio; Jackson, Mississippi; Lafayette, Louisiana; Beaumont, Texas, and Pensacola, Florida (12/18/04 - 01/04/05). The team had considerable success on that jaunt, running off a record of 6-1-1 in those eight games

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The Royals are coming off a 3-1 loss to the Idaho Steelheads last Saturday. That marked the second time this season that the Royals have been held to just one goal. o

Overall, the Royals have scored a total of seventeen goals in six games, which translates into a 2.83 goals per game average, which is eighteenth in the league o

Reading has only scored a total of twelve goals at even strength in the first six games of the season; and have only scored eight even strength goals in the last five games.

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The team's lone goal on Saturday was scored by defenseman Florian Iberer. That was Iberer's first goal as a Royal-and the first goal that he has scored in North America since he notched nine (in thirty-three games) with the Kalamazoo Wings in the now-defunct International Hockey League in the 2007-08 season. o

Saturday's goal was Iberer's first in the ECHL since scoring two (in forty-nine games) with the Alaska Aces in the 2006-07 season. o

Historically, Iberer has scored 78 goals (and registered has 301 points) in 775 professional hockey games. o

With his goal, Iberer became the twelfth different player to score a goal for Reading this season.

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Despite being held to just one goal on Saturday, the Royals generated a season high forty-shots in the loss that night.

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After scoring the game's first goal (and winning 6-2) in the season-opening game against the Elmira Jackals, the Royals have now gone five consecutive games in which the opposition has scored first. In four of those games, the opponent built a 2-0 lead before Reading got on the board.

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After beginning the season 4-7 on the power play, the Royals have gone one for the last sixteen with the man advantage. In the three games against Idaho, Reading went 1-11 on the power play, which included two lengthy five-on-three advantages on which the team did not score. o

Overall, the Royals are scoring PPGs at a 21.7% scoring ratio-tied seventh.

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The Royals have allowed at least one power play goal in each of the six games the team has played so far this season. In the three games played this past week, the Steelheads went 3-10 on the power play with two of their PPGs coming on five-on-three skater advantages. o

Overall, Reading is killing penalties at a 66.7% ratio (9 PPGA in 27 chances), which is last in the league.

RECENT TRANSACTIONS 10/25/16 Add Matt Robertson (f) Signed to ECHL Standard Players Contract and Added to Roster

10/27/16 Add Miles Liberati (f) Activated from ECHL Reserve List Delete Greg Amlong (d) Placed on ECHL Reserve List

NEXT UP FOR THE ROYALS Reading Royals @ RAPID CITY RUSH Rushmore Plaza Civic Center Friday, November 4, 2016 (9:05 pm Eastern Time)

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