June 16, 2009

Reading Acquires Rank

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 team has acquired the rights to former St. Lawrence forward Kyle Rank from the Cincinnati Cyclones in completion of the future considerations element of a March 8, 2009 trade.

Rank (6’1/185) (26) split last season between the Cyclones, where he scored four goals and assisted on twelve others (sixteen points) and picked up fourteen penalty minutes in twenty-three regular season games, and the Portland Pirates of the AHL. Rank, who had a stellar four-year collegiate career at St. Lawrence University prior to turning pro, played forty-four AHL regular season games with Portland last season, scoring eight points (1g-7a) and accumulating sixteen penalty minutes. Rank also split the post-season between Portland, where he played five playoff games, and Cincinnati, where he scored three goals in five playoff games for the Cyclones.