Landon Sim sparks London Knights to fourth straight win

Landon Sim’s begetter Jon starred for the Sarnia Sting successful the mid-90s.

Jon Sim had back-to-back 56-goal seasons successful a Sting azygous and scored 165 goals successful full successful his OHL career.

On Oct. 27 Jon watched Landon people doubly and present large hits each implicit the crystal each day arsenic the London Knights downed the Sarnia Sting 5-2 astatine the Progressive Auto Sales Arena successful Sarnia, Ont.

Sam Dickinson added to his squad points pb with 3 assists, William Nicholl had a brace of assists and Denver Barkey each had a extremity and a helper for London.

A hard first-period propulsion from the Knights saw them get rewarded with a 2-0 pb done 20 minutes arsenic Landon Sim danced his mode to the Sting nett and buried his ain rebound for his 2nd extremity of the play astatine the 11:52 people to unfastened the scoring.

London went to the powerfulness play conscionable implicit a infinitesimal aboriginal and due to the fact that of a 2nd Sarnia penalty, the Knights stayed connected the antheral vantage for astir 3 and a fractional minutes until Barkey slammed a one-timer past Nick Surzycia for his archetypal extremity of the twelvemonth and a tw0-goal pb heading into the 2nd period.

Dickinson and Cowan assisted connected Barkey’s goal. Cowan present has astatine slightest 1 constituent successful each crippled helium has played this twelvemonth and astatine slightest 1 constituent successful each of his past 44 regular play games for the Knights.

Casey Bridgewater’s archetypal Ontario Hockey League extremity chopped London’s pb successful fractional astatine 10:18 of the mediate play arsenic Bridgewater got to the nett from the near broadside of the ice.

The Knights came storming into the past period; Dickinson flipped a puck successful heavy disconnected the opening faceoff and Nicholl won a contention to it and acceptable up Sim for his 2nd of the crippled conscionable 11 seconds into the 3rd period.

The Sting got to wrong a extremity again arsenic Easton Wainwright deflected a Ruslan Karimov backhand into the London nett connected a Sarnia powerfulness play but conscionable 37 seconds aboriginal Nicholl won different contention to a puck and fed Watford, Ont., autochthonal Evan Van Gorp for his 2nd extremity successful 2 days and seventh of the play and that had the Knights up 4-2.

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Cowan finished the scoring with an bare nett extremity arsenic London polished disconnected a cleanable weekend.

The Knights outshot the Sting 40-23.

London was 1-for-3 connected the powerfulness play while Sarnia was 1-for-6.

Regular play to regular season, Cowan is inactive streaking

Toronto Maple Leafs imaginable Easton Cowan has astatine slightest 1 constituent successful each crippled helium has played successful 2024-25. He deed 8 consecutive games connected Sunday successful Sarnia. Cowan finished 2023-24 connected a 36-game constituent streak which was the longest successful London Knights history. The OHL grounds publication does not number season-to-season statistic – precise fewer leagues different than the NBA bash – but if it were counted that mode Cowan’s streak would present beryllium astatine 44 games. The longest constituent streak successful OHL past is 55 games, owned by Doug Gilmour, from Oct. 19, 1982, to Feb. 27, 1983.

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The Knights instrumentality location to big the Soo Greyhounds astatine Canada Life Place connected Friday, Nov. 1 astatine 7 p.m.

Sault Ste. Marie is connected a four-game winning streak and presently sits with a grounds of 7-5.

The Greyhounds volition beryllium successful Windsor connected Wednesday.

The crippled betwixt the Knights and Sault Ste. Marie tin beryllium heard starting astatine 6:30 p.m., connected 980 CFPL, astatine http://www.980cfpl.ca and connected the iHeart Radio and Radioplayer Canada apps.