London Knights clinch a playoff spot with a 5-3 victory over the Kitchener Rangers

Easton Cowan had a extremity and an assistance arsenic the London Knights defeated the Kitchener Rangers 5-3 connected “Easton Cowan Bobblehead Night,” connected Feb. 4 astatine Canada Life Place.

Cowan’s regular play constituent streak is present astatine 65 games and Cowan and the Knights are headed to the playoffs arsenic London became the archetypal squad to clinch a spot. Their streak of consecutive playoff appearances is present astatine 25.

The Knights came retired firing pucks astatine the Kitchener nett and scored early.

Landon Sim enactment the 3rd London changeable of the crippled down Rangers goalie Jackson Parsons arsenic helium scored his 22nd extremity of the twelvemonth which leads the Knights.

That extremity came astatine the 3:29 mark.

London would enactment 18 pucks astatine Parsons successful the opening 20 minutes alone.

Kitchener turned the tables aboriginal successful the 2nd play with a brace of goals from Luca Romano and Cameron Mercer that came 51 seconds apart.

Romano’s extremity came close arsenic a Ranger powerfulness play came to an extremity and Mercer’s extremity went disconnected the extremity post, disconnected Aleksei Medvedev successful the London crease and dribbled implicit the extremity line.

The Knights tied the crippled astatine 12:18 of the mediate play aft immoderate bully enactment by Jesse Nurmi successful down the Kitchener net. Nurmi slid a walk successful beforehand to Will Nicholl and the Edmonton Oilers imaginable buried his 13th of the play to marque it 2-2.

Kitchener edged their mode successful beforehand again arsenic Carson Cameron swept a rebound underneath Medvedev arsenic Campbell was falling implicit astatine 2:23 of the 3rd period.

London evened the people erstwhile much erstwhile Sam O’Reilly recovered Blake Montgomery successful the slot for Montgomery’s 20th of the play astatine the 7:43 people and past went up conscionable nether 4 minutes later, erstwhile Easton Cowan and Oliver Bonk combined to acceptable up Jared Woolley for the eventual game-winning goal. Bonk slid a walk to Woolley coming disconnected the near constituent and the L.A. Kings draught prime did the remainder arsenic helium deked Parsons and scored.

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Cowan added an empty-netter with conscionable implicit 7 seconds near successful the crippled and past bobbled his caput successful solemnisation and decorativeness the scoring astatine 5-3.

O’Reilly finished the crippled with 2 assists.

The Knights outshot the Rangers 41-31.

London was 0-for-5 connected the powerfulness play.

Kitchener was 0-for-3.

Landon Sim opens the scoring AGAIN

Landon Sim of the London Knights added to his “first goal” full successful the Ontario Hockey League. Of the 22 goals helium has scored this season, 10 of them person opened the scoring successful a crippled which ranks him archetypal successful that category. The adjacent closest to Sim successful scoring archetypal is Pano Fimis with 7 goals.

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The Knights volition big the Peterborough Petes astatine 7 p.m., astatine Canada Life Place connected Friday, Feb. 7 for the Don Brankley London Knights Hall of Fame game.

Dave Hutchison and Dennis Ververgaert are the newest inductees and volition beryllium honoured earlier the game.

The Petes were the archetypal squad London defeated successful a playoff bid going backmost to 1970.

Coverage volition get going astatine 6:30 p.m., connected 980 CFPL, astatine www.980cfpl.ca and connected the iHeart Radio and Radioplayer Canada apps.