London Knights blank Guelph as Medvedev earns 2nd career shutout

Landon Sim scored doubly and Alexei Medvedev made 32 saves arsenic the London Knights defeated the Guelph Storm 6-0 connected Jan. 17 astatine Canada Life Place.

The triumph moved London 2 points up of the Windsor Spitfires and backmost into archetypal spot wide successful the Ontario Hockey League standings.

The Knights person gone 29-2-1 since Oct. 20.

After a brace of breakaway saves by Medvedev held the crippled scoreless aboriginal on, different prevention by Medvedev led to the game’s archetypal goal.

Jacob Julien picked up the rebound and got the puck to Kasper Halttunen wrong the Storm portion and the second-round prime of the San Jose Sharks wired a wrist changeable past Guelph goalie Colin Ellsworth for his 3rd extremity of the twelvemonth and a 1-0 London pb done 20 minutes.

That extremity came with the teams skating 4-on-4 .

So did the adjacent two.

London scored doubly conscionable 42 seconds isolated successful the 2nd play arsenic Jared Woolley walked disconnected the close point, made a determination to the nett and flicked a backhand disconnected the acold station and successful to springiness the Knights a 2-0 lead. Easton Cowan past acceptable up Sam Dickinson to agelong the London pb to 3 goals.

Dickinson had an assistance connected Woolley’s extremity to get him to 50 points connected the season. His extremity gave him 51.

The assistance by Cowan connected that extremity stretched Cowan’s regular play scoring streak to 59 games.

The Knights made it 4-0 erstwhile Will Nicholl recovered Landon Sim astatine the borderline of the Storm crease astatine 17:42 of the 2nd period.

Sim present has goals successful his past 2 games.

Before the extremity of the second, London skipper Denver Barkey scored connected a breakaway to widen the Knights pb to 5-0.

Barkey has 19 points successful his past six games.

Andoni Fimis made a tremendous walk to acceptable up the lone extremity of the last 20 minutes arsenic helium recovered Sim to nonstop him into the Guelph end, wherever Sim got successful down the Storm defence and netted his 2nd of the nighttime to decorativeness the scoring astatine 6-0.

Blake Montgomery extended his constituent streak to 11 games with an an assist.

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Guelph outshot London 32-31.

The Knights were 0-for-2 connected the powerfulness play.

The Storm were 0-for-5.

Mitch Marner into immoderate prime company

When Mitch Marner acceptable up Auston Matthews connected Jan. 18 to necktie the crippled betwixt the Toronto Maple Leafs and the New Jersey Devils, helium deed 700 points successful his National Hockey League career. Marner past deed 701 points erstwhile helium assisted connected William Nylander’s overtime winner.

Marner is 1 of conscionable six players to surpass 700 points successful a Maple Leafs uniform. The erstwhile Knight joins George Armstrong, Borje Salming, Dave Keon, Darryl Sittler and Toronto’s franchise leader, Mats Sundin.

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London volition play their archetypal crippled this twelvemonth against the Sudbury Wolves connected Sunday, Jan. 19 astatine 2 p.m., astatine Canada Life Place.

The Wolves added defencemen Noah Roberts and Henry Mews (brother of 2024 Knights draught prime Max Mews) astatine the OHL commercialized deadline to spell on with an offence that boasts Quentin Musty, Kieron Walton and Kocha Delic who are having large violative seasons.

Sudbury ranks fig 2 successful punishment minutes successful the OHL this twelvemonth successful down the Saginaw Spirit.

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