RACONTEUR ROYALE
READING ROYALS
Weekly Release
March 23, 2015
Week No. Twenty-Three
LAST WEEK’S GAMES
Thursday
Friday
Sunday
March 19
March 20
March 22
@ Brampton Beast
@ Brampton Beast
@ Brampton Beast
OTL
Win
Win
2-3
6-3
8-3
TEAM RECORD
Overall
Home
Road
GP
63
32
31
W
41
20
21
L OTL
16 4
10 0
6
4
SOL PTS
2
88
2
42
0
46
WIN %
.698
.656
.742
GF GA
234 182
113 97
121 85
STREAK
3-0-1-0
1-0-0-0
3-0-2-0
Place in Standings
2nd East Division
THIS WEEK’S GAMES
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25 v FLORIDA EVERBLADES
Santander Arena - Reading, PA (7:30 pm)
1000th Game in Royals’ Hockey History
Steak-umm Meal and Ticket Deal
$25.00 Purple Zone Ticket, Steak-umm Burger, Fries and Large Soda
$2.50 Select Dra< Beer
FRIDAY, MARCH 27 @ INDY FUEL
Indiana Farmers Coliseum - Indianapolis, IN (7:35 pm)
SATURDAY, MARCH 28 @ WHEELING NAILERS
WesBanco Arena - Wheeling, WV (7:30 pm)
NEXT HOME GAME
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8 v WHEELING NAILERS
Santander Arena - Reading, PA (7:30 pm)
Broadcast:
Broadcast Begins 30 Minutes Prior to Opening Face-Off
With Highmark Blue Shield Pre-Game Warm-Up Show
CBS SportsRadio 1240 am and 98.5 fm in Reading, PA
Road Games Only: BCTV Telecast in Berks County, PA
(Comcast Reading Cable Channel 15, Service Electric Cable Channel 19,
Comcast Southern Berks Channel 965)
Free Internet Audio Broadcast (Follow ‘Headset’ Icon on Royals’ Website)
Pay-Per-View Streaming Video at ECHL.TV
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NOTES OF THE WEEK
1.This past week, the Royals played a three game set against the Brampton Beast at Powerade Center in Brampton, Ontario. On
Thursday (March 19), in the first game ever played by the Royals on
Canadian soil, Reading was dropped in overDme (2-3) by the Beast; the
next night (Friday, March 20), Reading pulled away from Brampton with
a three goal third to win (6-3) for the first Dme in Canada; and, on Sunday (March 22), the Royals exploded for a season high eight goals to
defeat the Beast (8-3).
2. Sunday’s win clinched a playoff spot for the Royals in the East Division of the Eastern Conference of the ECHL. This marks the sixth
straight season—and the tenth Dme (in the fourteen year history of the
team)—that Reading has qualified for the ECHL post-season.
3. The Royals record currently stands at a season best twenty-five
games over .500 (41-16-4-2=88), which places Reading in second place
in the East Division, five points behind first place Florida, who Reading will face in three of the next five games, including Wednesday
(March 25) at Santander Arena in Reading in the 1000th game in Royals’ hockey history.
4. Reading is currently riding a four-game unbeaten streak (3-0-1-0) and has compiled a record of 4-2-2-0 in the team’s last eight
games; 8-3-3-1 in the last fi<een; 20-3-3-1 in the last twenty-seven; and 32-8-3-1 in the last forty-four.
LAST WEEK’S TRANSACTIONS
03/16/15
03/18/15
03/19/15
03/20/15
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F
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Kevin Sullivan
CurDs Leonard
CurDs Leonard
MaM Hatch
Maxim Lamarche
Cam Reid
Released from ECHL Contract
Signed to Amateur Tryout Agreement
Loaned to Rochester (AHL)
AcDvated from ECHL Reserve
Assigned from Lehigh Valley (AHL)
Loaned to Adirondack (AHL)
5. Sunday’s game was 999th regular
season game in Royals’ team history.
Reading’s historical record a<er the 83 win in Brampton on Sunday is 525379-95, which is a .573 overall win
percentage.
6. Sunday’s game was also the 499th
road game in team history. Reading
has gone 240-210-49 on the opposiDon’s ice in the fourteen year history of the team, which translates into a .530 historical road
winning percentage.
7. Friday’s 6-3 win over the Beast, which was the first win ever for the Royals
on Canadian soil, pushed Reading’s record to the forty-win plateau for the
third straight season—and the fourth Dme in the last five years (and the
sixth Dme in the 14 year history of the team). The team record for regular
season wins stands at 46, which the team reached in each of the last two
seasons (2012-13 and 2013-14).
8. Reading’s win at Powerade Centre on Friday was also the twenDeth road
victory of the season for the Royals, who have won twenty or more on the
road in five
straight seasons
(and six Dmes in
the history of
the team). The team record for road wins in a single season is 22, which
has been accomplished twice: in 2010-11 (22-12-1-1) and last year (2013
-14: 22-12-1-1).
9. The Royals are currently riding a five game road unbeaten streak (3-02-0), daDng to a 4-1 win over the CincinnaD Cyclones on February 21 at
U.S. Bank Arena in CincinnaD, Ohio.
10. This past week’s three-game set against the Beast completed the five
game regular season series between the two teams. Reading compiled a
record of 3-1-1-0 against Bramtpon in their first season in the ECHL. The
Beast are the only team that the Royals will face out of the Western Conference during the regular season.
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NOTES OF THE WEEK
11. In three of the last four games, Reading has scored a goal within the first two minutes of the opening face-off; and in two of
those games, the Royals scored on the team’s first shot, including Saturday’s 6-3 win over the Beast, when Bryant Molle scored fi<ythree seconds into the game. The Royals have compiled a
record of 28-4-0-2 when scoring the game’s first goal this season.
12. In last Thursday’s 3-2 OTL in Brampton, Reading entered
the third period trailing the Beast, 2-1, but got a third period
game-tying goal (by Sean Wiles) with 6:38 remaining in regulaDon Dme. That marked the fourth Dme this season that
Reading has entered the third period trailing the opposiDon
and was sDll able to pick up at least a point (2-11-1-1).
13. The OTL on Thursday in Brampton dropped the Royals’
record to 0-4 in games decided in overDme this season (and 5
-6 in the eleven games that have gone beyond regulaDon Dme
this year. All four of the Royals’ overDme losses this year have
come on the road. Reading has ended up losing the last four
games that have gone beyond regulaDon Dme (0-0-3-1) daDng to a 3-2 OTL to the Wheeling Nailers on February 13, 2015.
14. In the 6-3 win over Brampton on Friday, the Royals and Beast entered the third period Ded at three before Reading rang off three
unanswered goals to win, 6-3. Reading has compiled a record of 10-3-2-0 when entering the third period Ded with the opposiDon.
15. In Friday’s win, the Royals actually had to come back from a 2-1 deficit early in the second period to pull out the two points.
Thus, that victory was technically the eighteenth come-from-behind win of the year for Reading.
16. Reading scored a season high eight goals on Sunday against the Beast. The five goal margin of victory Ded the season high for the
team. The Royals have won by five goals four Dmes this season.
17.. This past Sunday’s 8-3 win in Brampton was the final regular season game of the year for Reading to be played on Sunday. The
Royals played twelve games this season on Sunday ended up going 10-2-0-0 on the seventh day of the week (7-1-0-0 at home and 31-0-0 on the road).
18. On Friday, Reading got six goals from six different players for the second Dme in a span of three games. (The Royals also got six
goals from six different players in last Sunday’s win over Kalamazoo.) The team followed that up by geOng eight goals from seven
different players on Sunday. Sunday’s game marked the first Dme this season that all sixteen skaters in the Royals’ line-up recorded
at least one point (and seven players had a mulD-point performance).
19. Reading has compiled a record of 9-1-0-0 when scoring six or
more goals in a single game this year.
20. In Friday’s 6-3 win, David Marshall and Adam Hughesman
each scored their twenDeth goal of the season to become the
fi<h and sixth players, respecDvely, to reach the twenty goal
plateau for the Royals this season, joining Cam Reid (25), Olivier
Labelle (25), Sean Wiles (23), and Pat Mullane (21). This marks
the first Dme in team history that Reading has had six different
players reach the twenty-goal plateau in a single season. In the
fourteen year history of the team, the Royals have had five
twenty-goal scorers on the team three Dmes: (i) 2003-04; (ii)
2009-10; and (iii) 2010-11.
21. Overall, the Royals have scored 234 goals in 63 games played, which translates into a 3.71 goals per game average fourth best in
the league.
22. Reading allowed three goals against in each of the three games played last week. The Royals have compiled a record of 11-3-3-0
in games where the team has been touched up for three goals against.
23. Overall, the Royals have given up 182 goals against, which translates into a 2.89 team goals against average (Ded for eighth best
in the league).
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NOTES OF THE WEEK
24. A<er being held off the board in Thursday’s 3-2 OTL in Brampton, Reading’s power play struck for a PPG in each of the wins on
Friday (1-7) and Saturday (1-4). The Royals’ PP has registered a PPG in four of the last six games, going four for twenty-three during
that Dme span, which is a 17.4% scoring raDo with the man advantage.
25. Overall, Reading’s power play is scoring at a 19.6% clip (51 for 260), which is seventh best in the league. The Royals’ PP is scoring
at a 19.7% raDo on the road, which is fourth best in the league.
26. Reading’s penalty killers, who have blanked the opposiDon’s power play in four of the last five games, were touched up for one
power play goal in thirteen chances for the Beast in the
three games played this past weekend. In that mix, the PK
held Brampton off the board in two separate lengthy 5-on
-3 power paly sequences: (i) 0:56 worth in Friday’s 6-3
win with the score 1-0, Reading; and (ii) 1:44 worth in
Sunday’s 8-3 win also with the score 1-0, Reading.
27. The Royals have compiled a record of 28-5-2-2 in the
thirty-seven games in which the team’s penalty killers
have kept the opposiDon’s power play off the board.
28. Overall, Reading’s PK is killing at a 83.4% clip (37 PPGA
in 223 chances for the opposiDon), which is eleventh best
in the league.
29. On Sunday, Olivier Labelle (2g-0a) recorded his fourteenth mulD-point game of the year and second two goal
performance of the season. He now is Ded (with Cam
Reid) for the team lead with twenty-five goals, and he currently leads the team with a career best sixty-one points (25g-36a), which
places him Ded seventeenth in the ECHL scoring race. Labelle’s second goal on Sunday was his team leading seventh power play goal
of the year. Labelle, who has had at least a point in ten of his last twelve games (9g-11a=20pts), has forty-six points (19g-27a) in his
last forty games. Labelle also leads the team with 165 shots on goal and 66 penalty minutes. In 219 career games with the Royals, he
has recorded 190 points (96g-94a)—second most in team history.
30. At the Dme Cam Reid was loaned to the Adirondack Flames of the AHL
last Friday, he led the Royals with fi<y-nine points (25g-35a) in fi<y-nine
games. Reid, who is currently riding a three-game point streak (1g-3a=4pts),
registered his seventeenth mulD-point performance of the season (0g-2a) in
his last game with the team (the 3-2 OTL last Thursday in Brampton). That
Des Pat Mullane for the team lead in that category. Reid has had at least one
point in eleven of his last twelve games (7g-11a=18pts) and has thirty-two
points (13g-19a) in his last twenty-three games with Reading.
31. Adam Hughesman, who bagged the third-period De-breaking game winner (a ‘true’ game winner) 2:20 into the third period of Friday’s win—which
was his second GWG of the season, is riding a five game point streak (1g-4a=5pts). Hughesman has had at least one point in eleven
of his last twelve games (3g-12a=15pts) and thirty-four points (11g-23a) in his last thirty-one games.
32. Pat Mullane is riding a four game point streak (1g-3a) and a
three game assist streak (0g-3a). Mullane, whose twenty-one goals
have come on just 116 shots, leads the team with 18.1% scoring
raDo.
33. David Marshall, who scored his team leading eighth game winning goal of the year on Sunday, registered back-to-back mulD-point
games for the Royals on Friday (1g-2a) and Sunday (1a-1a), which
gives him thirteen mulD-point performances for the Royals this season. With his five points this weekend, Marshall now has 99 career
points as a Royal (40g-59a) in 109 games with the team, which places him eleventh on the all-Dme scoring list (two points behind Greg
Hogeboom).
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NOTES OF THE WEEK
34. Ryan Cruthers, who recorded his tenth mulD-point game of the season on Sunday (0g-2a), picked up his team-leading twenDeth
power play point (5g-15a) of the season on Michael Caruso’s power play goal on Friday. Cruthers has thirteen points (4g-9a) in his
last thirteen games (which have included four mulD-point performances).
Cruthers is the all-Dme leading scorer for Reading with 269 points (84g-185a)
in 269 games.
35. Sean Wiles, who also bagged his tenth mulD-point game of the year (0g2a) on Sunday, has had at least a point in seven of his last ten games (6g-5a),
during which he has played to a plus-7 (+7).
36. Mike Marcou, who leads all defensemen on the team with thirty-four
points (6g-28a)—which places him seventeenth amongst defensemen in the
league in scoring—broke a nine-game goal scoring drought with his second
period goal in Sunday’s 8-3 win. Marcou’s sixteen power play assists is Ded
for the league lead amongst d-men in that category.
37. Ian WaMers snapped a streak of seven games without a point when he registered the primary assist on Bryant Molle’s goal fi<ythree seconds into Friday’s 6-3 win. WaMers also picked up an assist on Kevin Walrod’s goal (the team’s eighth) in Sunday’s 8-3 win.
38. Defensemen Jordan Heywood, who leads all first year players on the team with twenty-one points (8g-13a), picked up his ninth
power play point of the year (2g-7a), when he assisted on Olivier Labelle’s power play goal in Sunday’s 8-3 win.
39. Andrew Johnston who picked up a pair of assists this weekend—both off face-off wins—has played plus-17 (+17) in his last thirtyfive games with the Royals. He is Ded (with Olivier Labelle, Pat Mullane, and David Marshall) for the lead amongst forwards on the
team in plus-minus at plus-15 (+15).
40. Defenseman Bryant Molle scored the Royals’ first goal 53 seconds into Friday’s win. That was his second goal of the year (and
second in his career as a Royal)—and the first non-empty-net goal that he has ever scored as a member of the Royals, and it came in
his 183rd game with the team. Molle picked up his second mulD-point game of the year (0g-2a) on Sunday, which was in his 184th
game with Reading, tying him with Yannick Tifu for the third-most games ever played by a Royal. Only Ryan Cruthers (269) and Olivier Labelle (219) have played more games for Reading than Bryant Molle, who is playing to plus-19 (+19) this season and is the allDme career leader in plus-minus at plus-55 (+55).
41. Defenseman Michael Caruso broke a twelve game goal scoring drought with his first power play goal of the season in Friday’s 6-3
win and followed that up with his second mulD-point game of the year (1g-1a) in Sunday’s 8-3 win. Caruso has played plus-7 (+7) in his last four games.
42. On Sunday, MaM Hatch scored his ninth goal of the year, which leads all first year
players on the Royals in that category.
43. Kevin Walrod is riding a four-game goal scoring streak (4g-1a=5pts) and has 5 goals
in his last 8 games. Walrod’s goal on Sunday was his ninth of the season, which tops the
eight that he had for Reading in 39 games with the team last season.
44. Defenseman BreM Flemming, who recorded his fourth mulD-point game of the season on Sunday (0g-2a), has had at least a point in eight of his last eleven games (2g9a=11pts). Flemming has forty-six career points (13g-35a) in 128 career games with the
Royals.
45. Brandon Alderson has six points in his last eight games (4g-2a), which included scoring his seventh goal of the year (four of which have come in the last eight games) on Sunday in Brampton.
46. Goaltender Connor Knapp went 1-0-1-0 this past weekend, sustaining the OTL in Brampton last Thursday; but bouncing back to
record his twenty-second win of the year on Sunday over the Beast. Knapp is currently riding an eight game unbeaten streak (5-0-21)) and has gone 13-1-3-1 in his last eighteen games with the Royals. Overall, he is 22-8-3-1 with a 2.55 goals against average
(thirteenth best in the league) and a .915 save percentage with one shutout in thirty-six appearances with the Royals this season.
47. Goaltender MarDn OuelleMe snapped his personal two-game losing streak with his twenty-five save win on Friday. It was the
fi<eenth win of the year for OuelleMe with Reading in his twenty-fi<h appearance of the season for the team. He also recorded his
first pro point when he registered an assist on David Marshall’s goal 16:25 into the second period of that game. Overall, OuelleMe
has compiled a record of 15-8-1-1 with a 2.89 goals against average and.908 save percentage with one shutout for the Royals.