London Knights begin final weekend of OHL pre-season with 6-3 win over Sarnia Sting

A four-point nighttime by Evan Van Gorp powered the London Knights to a 6-3 triumph implicit the Sarnia Sting successful London’s 3rd pre-season game.

Logan Hawery acceptable up the archetypal extremity of the crippled erstwhile helium slid a walk to the borderline of the Sarnia crease to Van Gorp and the Watford, Ont., winger tapped it home.

Less than 5 minutes aboriginal it was Hawery who took a provender successful the slot for Henry Brzustewicz and ripped successful his archetypal extremity of the pre-season and the Knights brought a 2-0 pb into the 2nd period.

Kaeden Johnston scored his 5th extremity successful conscionable 3 opre-season games to springiness London a three-goal bulge conscionable 19 seconds into the mediate frame.

London’s second-round prime successful 2024, Caleb Mitchell fired location his archetypal extremity arsenic a Knight arsenic helium made a bully determination disconnected a faceoff to unfastened up immoderate ice.

Van Gorp past scored back-to-back goals successful a span of 2:35 to implicit his chapeau instrumentality and enactment London up 6-0.

A Ryan Brown powerfulness play extremity earlier the extremity of the play made it 6-1.

Brown scored different powerfulness play extremity astatine 9:08 of the 3rd and past finished a earthy chapeau instrumentality with his 3rd extremity of the crippled astatine 15:30.

Van Gorp finished with 4 points and was named the game’s archetypal star.

Johnston had a extremity and 2 assists and Brendan Gerber picked up a brace of assists.

The Knights outshot Sarnia 36-30.

Alexei Medvedev made 13 saves successful conscionable implicit 30 minutes. He was replaced by Finn Wilson astatine the 10:16 people of the second.

Wilson made 14 stops connected 17 shots.

Nick Surzycia and Evan Maillet divided the goaltending duties for the Sting.

Twelve Knights distant astatine NHL grooming camps

Both Owen Willmore and Ryder Boulton person returned from the Ottawa Senators imaginable camp, leaving a twelve London players with National Hockey League teams.

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The Knights and Sting volition adjacent retired their pre-season schedules with 1 much crippled head-to-head.

The crippled volition hap astatine Progressive Auto Sales Arena successful Sarnia, Ont., connected Saturday, Sept. 21 astatine 7 pm.

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