London Knights down Spirit 4-1 for third win in a row

A week and a time aft the Saginaw Spirit defeated the Knights successful London the Knights returned the favour successful Saginaw.

Sam O’Reilly and Sam Dickinson each had a extremity and an assistance successful a 4-1 London triumph astatine the Dow Event Center successful Michigan.

Denver Barkey recorded 2 assists for the Knights and Easton Cowan extended his constituent streak with a 3rd play goal.

Seconds aft Cowan fed Barkey for a London short-handed accidental that was denied by the mitt of Spirit goalie Andrew Oke, O’Reilly took a provender from Dickinson and popped a wrist changeable done the legs of Oke to marque it 1-0 astatine the 9:09 people of the opening period.

Dickinson enactment London up 2-0 astatine 12:20 of the 2nd play arsenic helium took a beautifully executed flip walk from Barkey and went successful unsocial to people his team-leading seventh extremity of the season.

Both Sams connected the Knights roster present person goals successful each of their past 2 games.

Michael Misa scored his 16th extremity of the play successful his 12th crippled arsenic helium stole a puck extracurricular the London bluish enactment and snapped a debased changeable wrong the acold post.

Just 33 seconds aboriginal Cowan banged successful a rebound astatine the different extremity of the ice. Cowan present has points successful each 7 games of the 2024-25 season. Going backmost to past twelvemonth Cowan present has astatine slightest 1 constituent successful 43 OHL regular play games.

Landon Sim made a bully determination to summation the violative portion connected the close helping conscionable past the midway people of the last period. Sim carried heavy and dished a nifty small provender to Evan Van Gorp and helium buried his sixth extremity of the play for a 4-1 Knights advantage.

Alexei Medvedev was fantabulous successful extremity for the Knights arsenic helium made 28 saves connected 29 shots.

Oke was precise bully astatine the different extremity of the crystal arsenic helium was called upon to marque immoderate large stops passim the games.

Oke stopped 26 of the 30 shots helium faced.

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Both punishment kills were perfect.

London went 6-for-6.

The Spirit were 5-for-5.

Brett Brochu disconnected to a 2-0 commencement for the Fort Wayne Komets

It’s 2 games and 2 wins by Brett Brochu successful 2024-25. The erstwhile Knight has posted 2 victories successful extremity for the Fort Wayne Komets of the ECHL. Brochu made 30 saves successful a 2-1 triumph implicit different ex-London subordinate successful Connor Federkow and the Iowa Heartlanders connected Oct. 19 and past made 40 stops successful a 5-4 triumph implicit Cincinnati connected Oct. 25

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London volition implicit 3 games successful 3 days successful 3 days connected Sunday day successful Sarnia, Ont., against the Sting.

The Knights and Sarnia divided a brace of pre-season games.

Sarnia has started the twelvemonth with six wins and points successful 10 of their archetypal 13 games and they are being led successful scoring by 16-year aged Londoner Beckham Edwards. Edwards has 11 points successful 13 games.

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