London Knights defeat Peterborough Petes as Easton Cowan’s streak comes to an end

Jared Woolley scored the game-winning extremity connected a short-handed two-on-one successful the 2nd play arsenic the London Knights downed the Peterborough Petes 3-1 connected Friday astatine Canada Life Place.

The triumph gave the Knights their 40th triumph of the season. London has deed 40 victories successful 17 of the past 24 seasons.

The adjacent closest squad connected that database is the Kitchener Rangers with 10.

The Petes became the archetypal squad to clasp Easton Cowan disconnected the scoresheet successful a regular play crippled since the Sudbury Wolves did it connected Nov. 24, 2023

Cowan’s streak volition spell down arsenic the longest regular play streak ever stretching betwixt 2 seasons astatine 65 games.

Sam O’Reilly recovered Kasper Halttunen coming crossed the Peterborough bluish enactment to unfastened the scoring arsenic the San Jose Sharks imaginable ripped location his 4th extremity successful six games for the Knights to springiness them a 1-0 lead.

Colin Fitzgerald of the Petes tied the crippled astatine 4:04 of the 2nd play arsenic helium went to the nett and tipped successful a walk from Braydon McCallum.

The crippled stayed that mode precocious into the mediate play erstwhile London defenceman Jared Woolley carried done centre crystal short-handed with Jesse Nurmi connected a two-on-one. Woolley kept the puck and fired it past Easton Rye into the Petes nett for his 2nd extremity successful 2 games and the Knights led 2-1 going into the last 20 minutes.

Evan Van Gorp scored the lone extremity successful the 3rd play acceptable up by Will Nicholl and Sam Dickinson.

Cowan rifled a changeable disconnected the extremity station precocious successful the 3rd but that is arsenic adjacent arsenic either squad would travel to scoring successful the last 3 minutes.

London outshot Peterborough 38-25.

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

The Petes were 0-for-5.

Ververgaert and Hutchison inducted into Don Brankley Hall of Fame

Two erstwhile London Knights teammates entered the Don Brankley London Knights Hall of Fame broadside by broadside connected Feb. 7 arsenic Dennis Ververgaert and Dave Hutchison were honoured arsenic the latest inductees. Over 3 seasons successful London, Ververgaert recorded 351 points successful 187 games earlier being selected 3rd wide by the Vancouver Canucks successful the NHL Amateur Draft. Ververgaert besides played for the Washington Capitals and the Philadelphia Flyers. He was a subordinate of the Flyers squad that went unbeaten successful 35 conseuctive games successful 1979-80.

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Hutchison joined the Knights conscionable earlier the playoffs successful 1970 and helped them triumph their first-ever playoff bid arsenic a franchise successful defeating the Peterborough Petes successful the archetypal round. Hutchison would spell connected to a nonrecreational vocation that began successful the WHA and past carried to the NHL with the L.A. Kings, the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Chicago Blackhawks and the New Jersey Devils.

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The Knights volition beryllium disconnected until they caput for the Sadlon Arena connected Thursday, Feb. 13 to look the Barrie Colts.

London has not seen Barrie since their sixth crippled of the play erstwhile the Knights scored 3 3rd play goals successful a two-minute, seven-second span to crook a 4-2 shortage into a 5-4 win.

Both teams person lone made themselves amended since past and presently correspond the apical teams successful scope of the Eastern and Western Conferences.

London volition instrumentality location connected Valentine’s Day to big the Soo Greyhounds astatine 7 p.m. astatine Canada Life Place.

Coverage of some games tin beryllium heard starting astatine 6:30 p.m., on 980 CFPL, astatine www.980cfpl.ca and connected the iHeart Radio and Radioplayer Canada apps.