Evan Van Gorp scores twice in London Knights win over the Wolves

Evan Van Gorp scored doubly and Cam Allen and Jacob Julien had a brace of assists apiece arsenic the London Knights downed the Wolves 5-2 successful Sudbury connected Jan. 24.

After 26 minutes and 9 seconds of scoreless hockey, the teams exploded for six goals done the remainder of the 2nd period.

Evan Van Gorp pocketed a brace for the Knights to enactment them up 1-0 and 2-1 with a Chase Coughlin extremity tucked successful betwixt for the Wolves.

Sudbury tied the crippled 2-2 connected a powerfulness play extremity by Quentin Musty astatine the 11:31 people of the 2nd period.

With clip winding distant earlier the intermission, London struck twice.

First Denver Barkey recovered Cam Allen connected the close broadside and Allen fed Kasper Halttunen successful beforehand of the nett and helium rocketed a changeable implicit the blocker of Nate Krawchuk and it was 3-2 Knights. Allen present has 15 points successful 13 games for London.

Just 50 seconds aft that, Knights defender Sam Dickinson stopped a puck conscionable wrong the bluish enactment and snapped a changeable done postulation and into the Wolves nett for Dickinson’s 19th extremity of the play and London led 4-2 done 40 minutes.

The lone extremity of the 3rd play was into an bare nett arsenic Landon Sim raced down the crystal connected a breakaway to grounds his 19th of the twelvemonth and decorativeness the scoring astatine 5-2 for the Knights.

London was 0-for-1 connected the powerfulness play but their lone antheral vantage of the nighttime came with conscionable 5.9 seconds remaining successful the game.

Sudbury went 1-for-5 connected the powerfulness play.

The Knights outshot Sudbury 39-27.

Aleksei Medvedev made 25 saves for London and present has 16 wins connected the year.

Easton Cowan did not play successful the crippled for the Knights. He is listed arsenic day-to-day with a little assemblage injury.

Cowan’s constituent streak sits astatine 62 consecutive regular play games.

Former Knight Sam Gagner signs with Belleville

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Sam Gagner played conscionable 1 play with the London Knights alongside Patrick Kane successful 2006-07. Since then, the 118-point scorer successful the OHL had played 17 play successful the National Hockey League.

Gagner started this twelvemonth without a declaration but captained Canada astatine this year’s Spengler Cup implicit the holidays and has present landed a spot with the Belleville Senators of the American Hockey League. Gagner has played 1,043 games successful the NHL and has racked up different 71 successful the AHL.

He joins erstwhile Knight Michael Simpson who has appeared successful 5 games for the Baby Sens this season.

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London volition implicit their bluish travel with a crippled against the Greyhounds successful Sault Ste, Marie, Ont., connected Sunday Jan. 26, astatine 2 p.m.

The Knights person beaten the Greyhounds 4-3 astatine location and 5-1 successful the Sault this year.

The Greyhounds made moves with the aboriginal successful caput astatine the commercialized deadline getting younger. They sent defenceman Andrew Gibson to the Oshawa Generals for draught picks and Oshawa’s 2024 archetypal circular pick, Brady Smith.

Smith has joined different Brady Smith who was drafted by Sault Ste. Marie successful the 5th circular successful 2024.

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