{"id":1986022,"date":"2025-08-29T04:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T04:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1986022"},"modified":"2025-08-29T04:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T04:19:07","slug":"purpura-re-signs-with-royals-pro-hockey-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/purpura-re-signs-with-royals-pro-hockey-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Purpura re-signs with Royals | Pro Hockey News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Reading, Pa. \u2013 The Reading Royals, ECHL affiliate of the National Hockey League\u2019s Philadelphia Flyers and American Hockey League\u2019s Lehigh Valley Phantoms, announced that goaltender Vinnie Purpura has\u00a0re-signed with the club for the 2025-26 season.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"w-full\" src=\"https:\/\/echl.imgix.net\/production\/echl\/post\/11040\/featured_image\/adf71968-a319-4fdd-9d1a-ce4c72cc6a5d\/vinny-purpura-rea-2425.jpg?ar=16%3A9&amp;auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;crop=faces%2Ccenter&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=1200&amp;s=70ae7c2276649874b25781466e7e06f8\" alt=\"Action photo of Vinnie Purpura of the Reading Royals\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Purpura, 26, set career-bests in goals-against average (2.49) and save percentage (.922) to compliment an 11-6-5 record across 24 appearances during the 2024-25 season \u2013 his first campaign in Reading and second-full season of his professional career. In 53 pro career games, all in the ECHL, he has an overall record of 28-10-9 with one shutout, a 2.70 goals-against average and a save percentage of .914.<\/p>\n<p>As a rookie in 2023-24, he appeared in 25\u00a0games for the Adirondack Thunder where he posted a 15-4-4\u00a0record, 2.78 goals-against average and .908\u00a0save percentage.<\/p>\n<p>Purpura posted a 12-34-1 record, 3.38 goals-against-average and .894 save-percentage in 53 career collegiate appearances between\u00a0parts of two seasons at\u00a0Boston University (2018-20) and three seasons at\u00a0Long Island University (2020-23). Purpura earned LIU\u2019s hockey\u00a0program\u2019s first-ever victory against ranked opponent, making 32 saves in 3-2 win\u00a0vs. No. 12 Ohio State University on Nov. 25, 2022.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adsense-mid\">\n<div class=\"g g-5\">\n<div class=\"g-dyn a-15 c-1\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/foco.vegb.net\/c\/3065197\/1608989\/10075\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prohockeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image001-1.png\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He spent the 2018-19 season in the United States Hockey League with the Omaha Lancers and the Youngstown Phantoms to conclude his junior hockey career. Additionally, Purpura played two seasons in the North American Hockey League for the Johnstown Tomahawks (2016-18).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source prohockeynews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading, Pa. \u2013 The Reading Royals, ECHL affiliate of the National Hockey League\u2019s Philadelphia Flyers and American Hockey League\u2019s Lehigh Valley Phantoms, announced that goaltender Vinnie Purpura has\u00a0re-signed with the club for the 2025-26 season. Purpura, 26, set career-bests in goals-against average (2.49) and save percentage (.922) to compliment an 11-6-5 record across 24 appearances [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1986022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}