The Reading Royals have acquired defenseman Ryan Devine from the Kansas City Mavericks for future considerations. Devine is a Pennsylvania native born in Wayne, Pennsylvania. He has been bouncing up and down from the ECHL and the SPHL. He played in Fort Wayne with the Fort Wayne Komets along with former Royals defenseman Adam Brubacher during the 2021-2022 season. This season he has played for the Kansas City Mavericks and has scored one goal and has four assists. He spends the majority of the time in the penalty box, having seventy-eight penalty minutes in 43 games. In the 2022-2023 season, he played for the Knoxville Ice Bears in the SPHL, having a total of two goals and fourteen assists. He had 178 minutes in penalties last season. He has played a total of six seasons in the SPHL and three in the ECHL and played the 2020-2021 season overseas in Slovakia playing for HK Dukla Trencin. He has played for the following SPHL teams; The Colombus Cotton Mouth (2015-2016), Pensacola Ice Flyers (2018-2019), Quad City Storm (2019-2020), Macom Mayhem (2019-2020), Vermilion County Bobcats (2021-2022).
In the ECHL he has played for the Fort Wayne Komets(2021-2022), and the Kansas City Mavericks (2023-2024) and with being traded to the Reading Royals it will be the third team he has played for in the ECHL. They will most likely see him in the line-up this weekend when the Reading Royals face the Worcester Railers on Friday, March 11th, or their two-game series up in Maine against the Maine Mariners on Saturday, March 12th, and Sunday, March 13th.
