{"id":2058329,"date":"2025-09-29T21:24:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2058329"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:24:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:24:41","slug":"butcher-rejoins-royals-pro-hockey-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/butcher-rejoins-royals-pro-hockey-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Butcher rejoins 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 forward Alec Butcher has signed a contract with the club for the 2025-26 season.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"w-full\" src=\"https:\/\/echl.imgix.net\/production\/echl\/post\/11152\/featured_image\/68da2fb3-d1fb-4c8e-af8f-70f185260e29\/alec-butcher-rea-2425.jpg?ar=16%3A9&amp;auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;crop=faces%2Ccenter&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=1200&amp;s=1ee2a146f8b3fcd0fa27374c1314c7de\" alt=\"Action photo of Alec Butcher of the Reading Royals\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Butcher, 31, returns to Reading after posting 38 points (18g-20a) last season with Tulsa, where he played parts of the last two seasons since being traded by Reading on Nov. 26, 2023. Butcher played 87 regular-season games for the Royals between the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons where he amassed 56 points (25g-31a). A native of Anchorage, Alaska, Butcher added four points (1g-3a) through 11 games in Reading\u2019s 2023 Kelly Cup Playoff run. Butcher was one of two players (Colin Felix) to appear in all 72 regular-season games, as well as all 11 Kelly Cup Playoff games\u00a0for the Royals during the 2022-23 season.<\/p>\n<p>Entering his seventh professional season, Butcher totals 233 points (111g-122a) in 367 career games, all in the ECHL. He\u2019s played in the postseason each of the last four seasons, logging 11 points (4g-7a) across 31 Kelly Cup Playoff career games between Rapid City, Reading and Tulsa.<\/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>Prior to Reading, Butcher played two seasons for the Wheeling Nailers (2018-20) before joining the Rapid City Rush in the 2021-22 season.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Butcher\u00a0played four\u00a0seasons of college hockey, totaling 52 points (16g-36a) in 95 games.\u00a0Butcher played his first three seasons at Sacred Heart University before playing his final collegiate season\u00a0at the University of Alaska-Anchorage.<\/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 forward Alec Butcher has signed a contract with the club for the 2025-26 season. Butcher, 31, returns to Reading after posting 38 points (18g-20a) last season with Tulsa, where he played [&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-2058329","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\/2058329","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=2058329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}