Royals add Marcinkevics

Reading, Pa. - The Reading Royals, ECHL affiliate of the National Hockey League's Philadelphia Flyers and American Hockey League's Lehigh Valley Phantoms, announced that forward Dominiks Marcinkevics has signed with the club for the 2024-25 season.

Marcinkevics is entering his third professional season after a 2023-24 campaign between the Adirondack Thunder and the SPHL's Roanoke Rail Yard Dawgs. A native of Riga, Latvia, Marcinkevics tallied five points (2g-3a)in 13 games for Adirondack while he registered 37 points (17g-20a)  in 42 games for Roanoke.

The 23-year-old has compiled 69 points (27g-42a) in 95 career games with Roanoke. As a rookie in the 2022-23 season, Marcinkevics played three games for the Dinamo Riga in his home nation of Latvia before joining the Rail Yard Dawgs who captured the SPHL's President's Cup that season.

Additionally, Marcinkevics played four seasons of junior hockey between the Minnesota Wilderness and Maine Nordiques in the North American Hockey League, the New England Wolves in the Eastern Hockey League and both the Islanders Hockey Club and Jersey Hitmen in the National Collegiate Development Conference of the United States Premier Hockey League.