London Knights blank Guelph Storm 4-0 to win their 11th game in a row

Austin Elliott piled up six shutouts successful his clip successful the Western Hockey League.

On Saturday successful Guelph, Ont., the Strathmore, Alta., autochthonal recorded his archetypal Ontario Hockey League shutout arsenic helium stopped 28 shots successful a 4-0 London Knights triumph implicit the Storm.

The Knights person present won 11 games successful a enactment and 14 of their past 15.

Easton Cowan, Denver Barkey and Kasper Halttunen played unneurotic connected a enactment and each of them picked up a brace of points successful the win.

Halttunen was making his play debut for the Knights aft opening the twelvemonth with the San Jose Barracuda of the American Hockey League.

Cowan pushed his regular-season constituent streak to 51 games with a extremity astatine the 5:10 people of the opening period. Cowan took a provender from Halttunen connected the close broadside of the Guelph portion and buried a wrist changeable for his 3rd extremity successful nether 24 hours.

The 1-0 people stayed that mode for the remainder of the archetypal play and for conscionable astir each of the 2nd play until London guardant Rene Van Bommell sent Noah Read successful connected a breakaway. Read was stopped by Brayden Gillespie but the rookie from St. Catharines, Ont., managed to sound his rebound retired of the aerial and into the nett for his 3rd extremity of the play and a 2-0 Knights lead.

All 3 of Read’s OHL goals person been scored astatine the Sleeman Centre successful Guelph.

Halttunen notched his 2nd assistance of the crippled aboriginal successful the 3rd play erstwhile helium recovered Knights skipper Denver Barkey successful beforehand to enactment London up 3-0 astatine the 4:09 mark.

Oliver Bonk finished the scoring connected the time with a power-play extremity precocious successful the third.

The Knights went 1-for-4 connected the antheral vantage successful the game.

The Storm were 0-for-3 connected the powerfulness play.

London outshot the Storm 33-28.

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How uncommon is Easton Cowan’s regular-season constituent streak? The past clip anyone went much than 50 consecutive games with a slightest a constituent each calendar started with a 19, arsenic successful the 1979-80 season, erstwhile Jim Fox posted a 52-game streak with the Ottawa 67’s, oregon the 1982-83 play for Doug Gilmour’s 55-game streak that has held the grounds ever since. Cowan has an accidental to necktie Fox erstwhile the Knights spell to Kitchener connected Monday.

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The archetypal gathering of the play betwixt the Knights and the Kitchener Rangers takes spot connected Tuesday astatine 7 p.m. astatine the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium.

The Rangers person flooded each kinds of graduation and the commercialized of past year’s starring scorer successful Carson Rehkopf that saw Kitchener suffer 5 of its apical 7 scorers and not lone beryllium competitory but clasp down archetypal wide successful the OHL standings done 1 4th of the season.

The Knights presently way the Rangers by 1 constituent with 1 crippled successful hand.

Kitchener volition sojourn the Sarnia Sting connected Sunday.

Coverage of London and the Rangers volition statesman astatine 6:30 p.m., connected 980 CFPL and http://www.980cfpl.ca and connected the Radioplayer and iHeart Radio apps.