A shootout win in Kingston makes it 17 wins in a row for the London Knights

Blake Montgomery scored doubly and added an assistance and Auston Elliott stopped 36 shots successful the archetypal 65 minutes and 2 much successful the shootout arsenic the London Knights edged the Frontenacs 5-4 successful a shootout successful Kingston connected Nov. 29.

The Knights person present won 17 consecutive games. Their franchise grounds is 24 wins and the OHL grounds is 25 consecutive victories.

London opened the scoring connected a play that doesn’t hap each game.

Sam Dickinson raced into the Kingston portion connected a breakaway and was stopped by Frontenacs goalie Mason Vaccari but the puck sat escaped close connected the extremity enactment and with a large swooping propulsion from Montgomery it was knocked into the Kingston nett for a 1-0 London lead.

The Frontenacs tied the crippled conscionable nether 4 minutes aboriginal arsenic erstwhile Owen Sound Attack guardant Cedrick Guindon took a walk successful the slot and scored and the teams went to the 2nd play even.

Sam O’Reilly enactment the Knights successful beforehand 2-1 astatine 5:40 of the 2nd play arsenic helium chopped to the Kingston nett from the close broadside and roofed a changeable past Vaccari earlier taking a immense deed astatine the near station that knocked the Oilers imaginable to the ice. O’Reilly shook it disconnected and celebrated his seventh extremity of the season.

A chaotic 3rd play saw the teams harvester for 5 goals arsenic Kingston archetypal tied the crippled and past went up 3-2 arsenic Tuomas Uronen and Gage Heyes cashed successful little than 3 minutes apart.

Montgomery tied the crippled with his 2nd of the nighttime and 3rd successful 2 games conscionable 22 seconds aboriginal arsenic helium converted a beauteous three-way passing play from Landon Sim and Jesse Nurmi and the crippled sat 3-3 astatine the 6:34 people of the last 20 minutes.

The people stayed that mode into the last 2 minutes of regularisation erstwhile Sam O’Reilly and Evan Van Gorp crossed the Frontenacs bluish enactment connected a two-on-one. O’Reilly fed Van Gorp and helium ripped a changeable implicit Vaccari to marque it 4-3 London with 1:50 to go.

A faceoff triumph by Kingston led to the game-tying extremity with 29.4 seconds near successful regularisation arsenic Uronen wired location his 2nd of the nighttime connected a wrist changeable from the apical of the near ellipse and the teams rolled into an overtime that saw chances astatine some ends but nary goals.

Denver Barkey and Jacob Julien scored successful the shootout and Elliott stopped 2 of the 3 shots helium faced to unafraid the triumph for the Knights.

Elliott came up immense successful the crippled arsenic helium faced 40 shots and improved to a cleanable 10-0 successful a London uniform.

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The Frontenacs outshot the Knights 40-22.

London was 1-for-4 connected the powerfulness play.

Kingston was 1-for-5 connected the antheral advantage.

Mailloux making his mark

Former Knights defenceman Logan Mailloux sits 2nd successful points per crippled among American Hockey League defenceman done a period and a fractional of the regular season. Mailloux has 5 goals and 14 points successful 13 games with the Laval Rocket and has besides appeared successful 5 games truthful acold this twelvemonth successful the National Hockey league with the Montreal Canadiens and has a extremity and 2 assists successful those games. Mailloux was Montreal’s archetypal circular prime successful the 2021 NHL Entry Draft and played 2 afloat seasons successful the OHL for London (one wounded shortened) from 2021 to 2023. Mailloux besides starred with the London Nationals successful 2019-20 erstwhile helium was named GOJHL Rookie of the Year, Top prospect, Top First-year Defenceman and a GOJHL All-Star.

Up next

The Knights volition decorativeness their eastbound roadworthy travel connected Sunday, Dec. 1 against the 67’s successful Ottawa, Ont.

The crippled volition instrumentality spot 1 week aft London edged the 7’s 2-1 successful a shootout astatine Canada Life Place.

The past 5 games betwixt the teams person each gone beyond regularisation time. One has gone to overtime and 4 person ended successful a shootout and the Knights person won each of them.

London has really beaten Ottawa successful 8 consecutive games.

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