Reading Signs Bala
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READING, PA -- The Reading Royals of the ECHL, affiliate of the
Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League and the Toronto
Marlies of the American Hockey League, today announced that the
organization has signed former Harvard forward Chris Bala.
This marks the fourth consecutive season in which Bala (30) has
played for the Royals. Last year, in four games with the team, he
picked up an assist and registered two penalty minutes. Two seasons
ago, in his final full year of pro, Bala, who hails from Pottstown,
Pennsylvania, scored nineteen goals and assisted on twenty-eight
others (forty-seven points) in fifty-eight games for Reading. That
season, Bala, who played his college hockey at Harvard University,
served as the Royals' team captain and was named as the team's Most
Valuable Player at the Fans' Choice Awards Banquet.
A former second-round pick of the Ottawa Senators (#58 overall) in
the 1998 NHL Entry Draft, Bala played six games with the Senators,
recording an NHL assist, in 2002.
