Brampton Steelheads keep their roll going as they knock off the London Knights

The Brampton Steelheads showed wherefore the Ontario Hockey League was speedy to enactment them atop its powerfulness rankings aboriginal connected successful the 2024-25 season.

The Steelheads stung the London Knights 6-3 connected Saturday day astatine the CAA Centre successful Brampton, Ont.

Carson Rehkopf wired location 2 first-period goals to assistance the Steelheads to a 3-0 pb done 20 minutes.

The erstwhile Kitchener Rangers guardant and existent Seattle Kraken imaginable opened the scoring conscionable 16 seconds into the crippled arsenic helium came into the London extremity connected the near broadside and lasered a puck implicit the enarthrosis of Knights goalie Owen Willmore.

After Porter Martone stole a puck and scored his 4th extremity of the twelvemonth short-handed, Rehkopf struck again, this clip from the slot astatine 16:55 of the archetypal period.

The Steelheads wasted nary clip striking again aboriginal successful the 2nd play arsenic the puck bounced disconnected a changeable artifact by Jacob Julien close to erstwhile Erie Otter Spencer Sova. He fired the rebound location conscionable 50 seconds aft the opening faceoff to marque it 4-0 for Brampton.

Adam Zidlicky accrued the Steelheads’ pb to 5-0 with his 2nd of the play astatine 7:48 of the 2nd play and would adhd his 2nd of the crippled earlier the extremity of the mediate frame.

Before that 2nd Zidlicky goal, London’s Cohen Bidgood scored his first-ever OHL tally arsenic helium took the puck to the nett connected the powerfulness play and bushed Jack Ivankovic to the mitt side.

Bidgood scored his 2nd of the crippled successful the 3rd successful what is becoming classical “Cohen Bidgood style” successful his precise young large inferior career.

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Bidgood was sent successful connected a short-handed breakaway and contempt having a defender draped connected his back, helium got to the nett and the puck rolled implicit the extremity enactment to marque it 6-2.

Blake Arrowsmith tipped successful a Henry Brzustewicz changeable connected a 5-on-3 powerfulness play astatine 11:16 of the 3rd play to decorativeness the scoring.

Brampton outshot the Knights 32-27.

London was 1-for-7 connected the powerfulness play and the Steelheads were 2-for-8.

The teams volition play 1 much crippled against each different connected Friday, Feb. 21 astatine Canada Life Place successful London, Ont.

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London volition caput northbound to Owen Sound for a crippled against the Attack connected Wednesday, Oct. 8.

Owen Sound’s roster looks precise antithetic from the mode that it has done the past 2 seasons.

The Attack person a young halfway and each kinds of caller faces but they inactive person Carter George successful goal, who is present a draught prime of the Los Angeles Kings.

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