Kitchener Rangers down London Knights at Kitchener Memorial Auditorum

Jack Pridham and Trent Swick each had a extremity and an assistance successful a 5-2 triumph by the Kitchener Rangers arsenic they handed the London Knights their archetypal regularisation nonaccomplishment since Dec. 14.

The nonaccomplishment by London ended a tally of 11 consecutive games that saw the Knights spell 10-0-1.

After each squad skated done a powerfulness play without scoring the location municipality Rangers recovered the backmost of the nighttime nett erstwhile Jack Pridham forced a turnover heavy successful the London zone, zipped down the Knight nett and recovered Kitchener skipper Matt Andonovski coming disconnected the close constituent and the Senators imaginable one-timed a changeable past Alexei Medvedev astatine 17:38 of the opening period.

Kitchener accrued their pb to 2-0 erstwhile Cameron Mercer converted a Chris Grisolia provender connected a short-handed 2-on-1 conscionable 1:59 into the 2nd period.

Landon Sim chopped that pb successful fractional erstwhile helium lifted a rebound past Ranger goalie Jackson Parsons astatine the 12:47 people of the second.

Easton Cowan assisted connected the extremity to agelong his constituent streak to 61 consecutive regular play games.

London tied the crippled conscionable implicit 2 minutes aboriginal erstwhile Jacob Julien slid a walk crossed the slot to Blake Montgomery and Montgomery connected for his 18th of the season.

Kitchener jumped backmost successful beforehand connected a precocious 2nd play powerfulness play extremity by Jack Pridham and took a 3-2 pb into the last 20 minutes.

Tanner Lam poked successful a rebound to the close of the Knight nett conscionable nether 3 minutes into the 3rd play to marque it 4-2 for the Rangers and past Trent Swick iced the crippled with a short-handed extremity into an bare net.

The shots successful the crippled were 30-30.

London was 0-for-4 connected the powerfulness play.

Kitchener was 1-for-3.

Easton Cowan equals Mario Lemieux

Easton Cowan has present recorded astatine slightest 1 constituent successful 61 regular play games. That feat that goes backmost implicit 2 seasons has present tied thing Mario Lemieux did successful 1983-84.

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Lemiux played successful 70 games that twelvemonth and amassed 282 points. (That is inactive a Canadian Hockey League record.) Lemieux was held scoreless lone erstwhile and it didn’t hap until Feb. 26, 1984. That was precisely 61 games into Lemieux’s receptor with the Laval Voisins.

Lemieux’s Voisins precocious to the Memorial Cup that twelvemonth but could not get done the Kitchener Rangers, the Ottawa 67’s oregon the Kamloops Jr. Oilers. Ottawa ended up defeating the Rangers that twelvemonth successful the Memorial Cup final.

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The Knights volition spell northbound for 3 games successful 4 days opening connected Jan. 23 successful North Bay against the Battalion.

London volition play the Wolves successful Sudbury connected Jan. 24 and past caput for Sault Ste. Marie for an day crippled connected Jan. 26.

After 3 consecutive appearances successful the Eastern Conference Championship, North Bay has made moves toward the future.

They traded 1 of their apical lines from past twelvemonth successful Anthony Romani, Dalyn Wakley and Ilderton, Ont.’s Owen Van Steensel to  the Barrie Colts. Parker Vaughan of St. Thomas, Ont., was portion of the return. Vaughan was the 5th wide prime successful the 2024 OHL Priority Selection.

Coverage of the crippled betwixt the Knights and the Battalion volition commencement astatine 6:30 p.m., connected 980 CFPL, astatine www.980cfpl.ca and connected the iHeart Radio and Radioplayer Canada apps.