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The Royal Road Ahead: Reading Royals at Elmira Jackals (Friday,

November 25, 2016 - ECHL (ECHL)
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The Royal Road Ahead Reading Seeks to End Seven Game Winless Streak in First Trip of the Year to First Arena

READING ROYALS @ ELMIRA JACKALS First Arena - Elmira, New York Game Time 7:05 PM et - Royals Broadcast: 6:35 PM et

REA Game No. 17: 6 - 8 - 1 - 1 = 14 (5, NORTH) Road Game No. 13: 5 - 5 - 1 - 1 ELM Game No. 14: 2 - 9 - 2 - 0 = 6 (6, NORTH) Home Game No. 7: 1 - 5 - 0 - 0

Head-to-Head Game No. 2 of 10 (5 @ REA) (5 @ ELM) REA v ELM: 1 - 0 - 0 - 0

NEXT GAME BETWEEN READING AND ELMIRA Wednesday, December 28, 2016 SANTANDER ARENA - READING, PA @ 7:00 pm

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)

ROYALS PRE-GAME NOTES -

Tonight, the Royals travel to First Arena in Elmira, New York, for the first time in the 2016-17 season. o

This is the second matchup of what will be a total of ten games-five in Reading and five in Elmira- scheduled between the Royals and Jackals in the 2016-17 regular season. o

The Royals and Jackals faced off in the season opening game for both teams back on October 15, 2016, at Santander Arena. In that game, Reading built an early 3-0 lead only to have the Jackals bounce back with a pair of power play goals to pull within one. However, Reading re-grouped and ran off the final three goals of the game to pull out a 6-2 victory.

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The Jackals joined the ECHL in the 2007-08 season. Over the course of the ten years that Elmira has been part of the ECHL, Reading has compiled a record of 70-44-12 against Elmira in the regular seaon. o

The two teams have also faced off twice in the post-season with Reading claiming the 2008 North Division Semi-Finals (4-2), and the Jackals knocking off the Royals in the best-of-five 2012 Eastern Conference Quarter-Finals (3-2). o

Since the 2013-14 season, the Royals have compiled an overall record of 31-9-3-1 in the last forty-four games played against the Jackals.

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Since March 10, 2013, Reading has gone 17-2-2-0 in the last twenty-one games played at First Arena in Elmira.

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In Reading's last game played-on Saturday, November 19 against the Manchester Monarchs at SNHU Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire-the Royals scored first, but gave up three in a row to the Monarchs before battling back and ultimately tying the game on a late-game pulled-goaltender, sixth-attacker goal. However, the Monarchs bagged the OT game winner to push the Royals current winless streak to seven (0-6-1-0). o

The team record for consecutive games without a win is nine, which Reading has suffered through three times previously: (i) March 9 - 29, 2002: 0-8-0-1; (ii) November 22 - December 6, 2008: 0-8-0-1; and (iii) November 18 - December 8, 2011: 0-5-2-2. o

After starting the season 5-1-0-1 on the road, Reading has not won in the team's last five games played away from Santander Arena (0-4-1-0). o

Reading has already played twelve road games (5-5-1-1)-fully one-third of the games that the team will play away from Santander Arena in the regular season this year.

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Over the course of the 422:39 of game time during the current seven game winless streak for the Royals, Reading has led for a combined 24:27, while the team has trailed the opposition for 242:12.

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Last Saturday's OTL in Manchester marked the second time this season that Reading has gone beyond regulation time for a game's resolution. The Royals are 0-2 in those games, having also lost in a shootout to the Idaho Steelheads on Friday, October 28. o

Since the start of the 2015-16 season, Reading has gone 2-12 in that last fourteen regular season games that have gone beyond regulation time for resolution (1-7 in overtime) (1-5 in the shootout). o

Over the last four seasons (since 2013-14), the Royals have had eighteen games resolved in overtime (regular season and playoffs), and the team has gone 1-17 in those games with the only OT win in that time span coming last season in Brampton (December 28, 2015 by a score of 3-2 on an OT GWG by Robbie Czarnik).

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The Royals' power play has been held off the board in the last three straight games (0-11). o

Overall, the Royals are scoring power play goals at an 18.6% clip (11-59), which is fourteenth in the league.

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In the one game so far played between Reading and Elmira, the Jackals bagged a pair of power play goals against the Royals (2-8). That is one of five games this season in which Reading has given up two power play goals to the opposition. Reading has allowed at least one PPGA in fifteen of the sixteen games so far played this season. o

Overall, Reading is killing penalties at a 69.4% clip (19 PPGAs in 62 opps), which is twenty-seventh in the league.

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Chris McCarthy, who registered a team-season high eight shots on goal in last Saturday's 4-3 OTL in Manchester, scored his team leading seventh goal to tie the game that night with the goaltender pulled and the sixth attacker on the ice and just 1:09 remaining in regulation. McCarthy also scored the game's first goal (and the Royals' only goal) in las Friday's (November 18) 2-1 loss to the Monarchs. o

McCarthy, who has four goals in his last four games, has nine points (5g-4a) in his last seven games. He recorded his team-leading fourth multi-point game of the year last Saturday (1g-1a). o

McCarthy, who has picked up at least a point in eleven of his thirteen games with the team, leads the Royals with fifteen points (7g-8a).

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Olivier Labelle, who scored his sixth goal of the season to bring the Royals within one (at 3-2) 7:06 into the second period in last Saturday's OTL, is currently riding a five game point streak (1g-4a). o

Labelle, who has had at least one point in thirteen of the sixteen games that he has played this season, played his 244th career game with the Royals last Saturday. Tonight's game for Labelle will tie Yannick Tifu (245) for second most regular season games ever as a Royal. (The all-time leader in that category is Ryan Cruthers at 278). o

Labelle currently has 215 career points as a Royal (107g-108a), which is seven points behind Tifu for second on the all-time list. (Cruthers leads in that category as well with 273 points).

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Mike Pereira scored the game's first goal last Saturday in Manchester 5:33 into the first period. That was Pereira's sixth goal of the season (tied with Labelle for second most on the team) and his team-leading second FG. o

Pereira leads the Royals with 47 shots on goal through sixteen games played.

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Defenseman Florian Iberer (3g-6a=9pts), who picked up the primary assist on the game-tying goal by Chris McCarthy with 1:09 left in regulation last Saturday, is tied with Mike Marcou (1g-8a) for the team lead in scoring amongst defensemen on the team.

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Defenseman Michael Boivin, who has five points (1g-4a) in five games with the Royals, picked up the secondary assist on the game-tying goal by Chris McCarthy last Saturday. Boivin generated a personal season-high five shots on goal in last Saturday's OTL.

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In his second game with the team, Tyrell Goulbourne picked up an assist on the first goal of the game scored by Mike Pereira in last Saturday's 4-3 OTL in Manchester.

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Goaltender Mark Dekanich has started the last four consecutive games for the team and has been the goaltender of record in six of the seven games played during this current winless streak for the team. Dekanich, who has compiled a record of 3-6-1-1 through eleven games with the Royals this season, is currently third in the league in minutes played (632) and saves made (310). Dekanich has a 3.61 goals against average and a .891 save percentage.

RECENT TRANSACTIONS

11/17/16 Add Tyrell Goulbourne Assigned by Philadelphia Flyers (NHL) from Lehigh Valley Phantoms (AHL) Delete Jesper Pettersson Placed on 21-Day Injured Reserve (Retroactive to November 3, 2016) Delete Matt Robertson Placed on ECHL Reserve List 11/18/16 Add Chris McCarthy Activated from ECHL Reserve List Delete Mike Marcou Placed on ECHL Reserve List Delete Steven Swavely Recalled to Lehigh Valley Phantoms (AHL) 11/25/16 Delete Matt Robertson Released from ECHL Standard Players Contract Delete Miles Liberati Placed on Bereavement Leave Delete Robbie Czarnik Placed on ECHL Reserve List Delete Matt Wilkins Placed on ECHL Reserve List Add Mike Marcou Activated from ECHL Reserve List Add Jesper Pettersson Activated from 21-Day Injured Reserve Add Zach Hall Activated from 21-Day Injured Reserve

NEXT UP FOR THE ROYALS

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26 (@ 7:00 PM) v CINCINNATI CYCLONES @ SANTANDER ARENA - READING, PA

NIGHT OF HOPE KISS-themed Jerseys Auctioned to Benefit Hope Rescue Mission in Reading Orange Winter Trapper Hat Giveaway Courtesy of Deibler Dental

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27 (@ 5:00 PM) v CINCINNATI CYCLONES @ SANTANDER ARENA - READING, PA

FIRST IN A SERIES OF THREE "UGLY" CHRISTMAS GIVEAWAYS "Ugly" Christmas Socks Giveaway Courtesy of FirstEnergy

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