{"id":107161,"date":"2026-02-06T17:47:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T17:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/107161\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T17:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T17:47:15","slug":"royals-win-streak-snapped-at-four-drop-series-opener-in-greensboro-6-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/107161\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals Win Streak Snapped at Four, Drop Series Opener in Greensboro, 6-2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reading, PA \u2013 The Reading Royals (23-17-4-0, 50 PTS), proud ECHL affiliate of the Philadelphia Flyers and Lehigh Valley Phantoms, fell to the Greensboro Gargoyles (11-23-5-1, 28 PTS), 6-2, at First Horizon Coliseum on Thursday, February 5th.\"RECAP:<\/p>\n

Goaltender Keith Petruzzelli (11-11-3-0) suffered the loss in goal with four goals allowed on 16 shots faced through 27:45 before Ian Shane came in relief and stopped 14 of 16 shots through 32:15 while Gargoyles\u2019 netminder Ruslan Khazheyev (6-12-3-0) earned the win in goal with a matched career-high 41 saves on 43 shots faced.<\/p>\n

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Greensboro posted a two-goal lead in the first period on goals from Colton Leiter (2) and Tyler Weiss (12) at 5:26 and 10:48 respectively, 2-0. Alec Butcher (9) got one back for Reading 4:53 into the second period before the Gargoyles rattled off four-straight before the intermission with two goals from Blake Biondi (2 & 3) on the power play, as well as Dalton Skelly (1) and Anthony Messuri(1).<\/p>\n

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The Royals scored the lone goal of the third period on the power play from Nolan Burke (9) at 5:48 for the final goal of the three-game series opener.<\/p>\n

With the loss, the Royals snapped their four-game win streak and have dropped their 10 game over their last 11 road affairs (1-9-1-0).<\/p>\n

The Royals continue a three-game road series against Greensboro on Friday, February 6th and concludes on Saturday, February 7th.<\/p>\n

The Royals return home from a seven-game road stretch on Friday, February 27th to open a two-game home set against the Greenville Swamp Rabbits on Saturday, February. Both games are 7:00 p.m. puck drops at Santander Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reading, PA \u2013 The Reading Royals (23-17-4-0, 50 PTS), proud ECHL affiliate of the Philadelphia Flyers and Lehigh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-107161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-reading-city","9":"tag-reading-city-headlines","10":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}