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The Royal Road Ahead: Reading Royals at Elmira Jackals

January 14, 2017 - ECHL (ECHL)
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The Royal Road Ahead Reading Seeks to Continue Success Against Jackals in Back-End of Two-Game Set in Elmira

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

REA Game No. 35: 20 - 12 - 1 - 1 = 42 (3, NORTH) Road Game No. 20: 10 - 7 - 1 - 1 ELM Game No. 34: 7 - 21 - 5 - 0 = 19 (6, NORTH) Home Game No. 16: 5 - 8 - 2 - 0

Head-to-Head Game No. 4 of 10 (5 @ REA) (5 @ ELM) REA v ELM: 4 - 0 - 0 - 0

NEXT GAME BETWEEN READING AND ELMIRA Monday, January 16, 2017 SANTANDER ARENA - READING, PA @ 1:00 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

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ROYALS PRE-GAME NOTES -

Tonight, the Royals face the Elmira Jackals in the back-end of a two-game set between the two teams at First Arena in Elimra, New York. o

Last night, in the Royals' first road game of Calendar Year 2017, Reading kicked things off with a bang scoring six first period goals and holding off the Jackals from that point forward to notch the team's twentieth victory of the season, 8-2. o

Tonight's game is the fifth in what will be a total of ten regular season games between the Jackals and Royals. So far, Reading has compiled a record of 4-0-0-0 against Elmira, winning the first matchup played here at First Arena (3-2) back on November 25 and taking both games played so far at Santander Arena (6-2) in the season opener for both teams on October 15 and (5-0) on December 28.

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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 73-44-12 in 129 total regular season games played between the two organizations.

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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 34-9-3-1 in the last forty-seven games played against the Jackals. o

Since March 10, 2013, Reading has gone 19-2-2-0 in the last twenty-three games played at First Arena in Elmira.

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Last night's 8-2 win over the Jackals propelled the Royals' record to a season-high eight games over .500 (20-12-1- 1=42), which keeps the team in third place in the North Division of the ECHL's Eastern Conference. o

Reading has won six of the last seven games played by the team, and the Royals have compiled a record of 14-4-0-0 in the team's last eighteen games. o

The next six straight games for the Royals are against teams from the North Division. So far, Reading has gone 10-7-1-0 in the eighteen games played against teams in the North and have twenty-three more to go within the Division.

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The victory last night served to notch the twentieth win for Reading in the team's thirty-fourth game of the year. Last season, the Royals did not reach the twenty-win mark until the forty-fourth game of the year (20-17-4- 3=47)-after a 3-2 win over the Adirondack Thunder on January 30, 2017.

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Last night, Matt Willows bagged the game's first goal 3:16 into the opening frame. The Royals have scored first in the last seven consecutive games and nine of the last ten played. Overall, Reading has scored first in nineteen of the team's thirty-four games, compiling a record of 13-5-1-0 in those games, which is a .711 save percentage.

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The Royals notched six goals on thirteen first period shots in last night's 8-2 win over the Jackals. That marked the just the second time in team history that Reading has scored six goals in a single period. Reading also bagged six in the first period of an 8-2 win over the Fort Wayne Komets at the Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on March 20, 2013.

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After last night's win, the Royals have a positive goal differential in all three periods. The team has played plus-six in the first period (35 goals for - 29 goals against), plus-2 in the second period (42 - 40), and plus-19 in the third period (48 - 29).

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The eight goals scored in last night's game by Reading tied the team's season-high. The Royals also bagged eight in the team's 8-2 win over the Indy Fuel at Santander Arena on December 9. o

Last night's game marked the fifteenth time in team history that Reading has scored eight or more in a single game. (The team record was set on January 16, 2002, when the Royals beat the Greensboro Generals, 10-3.)

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Thirteen of the sixteen skaters who played in last night's win-as well as goaltender Martin Ouellette-recorded at least one point in the 8-2 win last night. Seven different players registered multi-point performances. o

Three players notched three-point performances last night: Matt Wilkins (2g-1a), Chris MCarthy (1g-2a) and Justin Crandall; while four players had two points in the game: Olivier Labelle (1g-1a), Matt Willows (1g-1a), Florian Iberer (1g-1a), and Michael Boivin (0g-2a). o

Fifteen skaters played to a plus in last night's game, with thirteen of those players registering a plus-2 or better. Defenseman Florian Iberer led the team in the plus-minus category last night, playing to a plus-4.

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Chris McCarthy, who leads the Royals with sixteen goals and thirty-four points in thirty-one games, has scored a goal in five of the last seven games that he has played. Last night's three point performance for McCarthy (1g- 2a) was his team-leading eighth multi-point game of the year.

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Olivier Labelle registered his seventh multi-point game of the year last night (1g-1a). Labelle has seven points (3g- 4a) in his last six games.

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After his three-point performance in last night's game, Justin Crandall has recorded sixteen points (6g-10a) in his last seven games. He has twenty-seven points (10g-17a) in his last eighteen games. Crandall leads the Royals in plus-minus at plus-15 (+15).

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Robbie Czarnik, who returned to action last night after missing two games with the Royals, is riding a four game point streak (4g-4a=8pts). He has twelve points (5g-7a) in his last seven games.

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Ryan Penny, who scored the Royals' fourth goal last night, has ten points (3g-7a) in his last nine games.

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Matt Willows notched his second multi-point game as a Royal last night (1g-1a). He has eleven points (4g-7a) in twelve games with the Royals this year.

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Defenseman Florian Iberer, who registered his sixth multi-point game of the year last night (1g-1a), is tied eighth in scoring amongst defensemen in the league with twenty-three points (8g-15a) in thirty-four games. Iberer, who led the Royals last night by playing plus-four, has played even or better in seven straight games, playing to a plus-8 in that time span.

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Steven Swavely is riding a five game point streak (2g-4a=6ps). Swavely has nineteen points (7g-12a) in nineteen games with Reading.

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Defenseman Michael Boivin registered his fifth multi-point game of the year last night (0g-2a).

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Matt Wilkins, who recorded his second consecutive multi-point performance last night (2g-1a), notched the 'Gordie Howe Hattrck'(-plus) last night with a goal (actually two), an assist and a fight (with Tyson Fawcett), which was his second fight as a Royal. That was Wilkins' first three point game as a pro. The seventeen penalty minutes accrued by Wilkins last night is a team season-high.

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Reading went 0-3 on the power play last night, and has been held off the board in the last thirteen chances with the man advantage over the last three games played.

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Elmira touched up the Royals penalty killers for their first goal last night (1-2). The Royals PK has given up a power play goal against in back-to-back games for the first time since November 13 - 16, twenty games ago. o

Nonetheless, the Royals penalty kill has now knocked off 62 of the last 68 power play chances for the opposition (91.2%) dating back twenty-one games.

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Goaltender Martin Ouellette, who returned to the Royals on January 3 after missing twelve games with Reading while on recall to the Lehigh Valley Phantoms of the AHL, made twenty-eight saves last night to record his first win for the Royals since a 5-2 win over the Cincinnati Cyclones on November 27, 2016-sixteen games ago.

Ouellette also picked up his first point of the season when he recorded a helper on the Royals' eighth goal (by Justin Crandall) last night.

RECENT TRANSACTIONS 01/12/17 Delete Drew Fielding (g) Released from ECHL Standard Players Contract 01/13/17 Add Mark Dekanich (g) Activated from 21-Day Injured Reserve Add Robbie Czarnik (f) Activated from ECHL Reserve List

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