London Knights edge Owen Sound Attack in overtime

Sam O’Reilly’s extremity 58 seconds into overtime gave the London Knights a 5-4 triumph successful Owen Sound connected Oct. 9.

O’Reilly went hard to the nett and Jacob Julien recovered him for the game-winner, which gave the Knights a blessed decorativeness to a crippled that they led doubly arsenic Denver Barkey, Oliver Bonk and Easton Cowan each made their OHL play debuts.

Julien had 3 assists successful the crippled and is present tied with William Nicholl, Evan Van Gorp and Henry Brzustewicz for the scoring pb connected the Knights. Each subordinate has 5 points.

The Attack got disconnected to a accelerated commencement connected goals by Harry Nansi and Declan Waddick earlier Easton Cowan got London connected the committee with a bargain astatine the Owen Sound bluish enactment and a short-handed extremity arsenic helium bushed Attack goalie Carter George done the legs connected a breakaway.

Seven minutes and 1 2nd later, the Knights tied the crippled arsenic Edmonton Oilers imaginable William Nicholl came into the Owen Sound portion connected the near broadside and recovered Blake Arrowsmith going to the nett for Arrowsmith’s 3rd extremity of the season. The teams went to their respective dressing rooms tied 2-2 done 20 minutes.

London came retired with a mates of beardown shifts to statesman the 2nd play and moved retired successful from connected Oliver Bonk’s archetypal extremity successful his archetypal crippled of the season. Julien recovered Bonk successful the slot and helium ripped a changeable into what was fundamentally an bare nett arsenic George had moved to effort to spot astir a heap of radical successful front.

That extremity made the people 3-2 London but the pb lasted each of 40 seconds arsenic Ben Cormier flew successful crossed the Knights bluish enactment connected the close broadside and wristed location his archetypal extremity of the play and the crippled was adjacent again.

Owen Sound seemed to spell successful beforehand connected what would person been his 2nd of the crippled and twelvemonth with conscionable a tenth of a 2nd remaining connected the timepiece astatine the extremity of the 2nd period.

Cormier fired a puck from the slot done a heap of radical and into the London nett but 1 of those radical was Owen Sound first-rounder Pierce Mbuyi, who was connected apical of Knights goaltender Alexei Medvedev.

After a review, the extremity was disallowed and the people sat 3-3 going to the third.

The teams traded power-play goals successful the last 20 minutes.

Knights defenceman Sam Dickinson blasted a one-timer past George astatine the 2:50 people connected a London antheral vantage to springiness the Knights a 4-3 lead.

The people stayed that mode until a precocious Owen Sound powerfulness play erstwhile large Attack defenceman Konnor Smith deflected a changeable into the London nett with little than 2 minutes remaining to nonstop the crippled to overtime.

The Knights weathered immoderate aboriginal Attack possession, made a enactment alteration and Julien recovered O’Reilly going to the nett for the game-winner.

London outshot Owen Sound 42-29.

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The Knights played the crippled without guardant Van Gorp and defenceman Alec Leonard, who some missed the crippled with upper-body injuries.

Both players are listed arsenic day-to-day.

Knights connected NHL opening nighttime rosters

The Canadian Hockey League is called the champion developmental hockey league successful the world. It produces much nonrecreational hockey players than immoderate different league connected the planet. Averaged out, each large inferior squad should person betwixt 7 and 9 erstwhile players connected NHL rosters astatine immoderate fixed time. The Knights person been bucking that inclination for years.

In 2024-25, a full of 25 erstwhile Knights players find themselves connected NHL teams to commencement the year: John Tavares (Tor), Mitch Marner (Tor), Anthony Stolarz (Tor), Max Domi (Tor), Christian Dvorak (Mtl), Josh Anderson (Mtl), Patrick Kane (Det), Olli Maatta (Det), Andreas Athanasiou (Chi), Patrick Maroon (Chi), Adam Boqvist (Fla), Matthew Tkachuk (Fla), Evan Bouchard (Edm), Corey Perry (Edm), John Carlson (Wsh), Connor McMichael (Wsh), Nazem Kadri (Cgy), Paul Cotter (NJ), Luke Evangelista (Nsh), Michael McCarron (Nsh), Bo Horvat (NYI), Max Jones (Bos), Nikita Zadorov (Bos), Robert Thomas (StL), Vladislav Namestnikov (Wpg).

You could besides adhd Vladislav Kolychonok to the database (he played 1 crippled successful London successful 2018-19 earlier being traded to Flint to get London down to 2 import picks).

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As the location of the Knights officially becomes Canada Life Place connected Friday, London volition big the Barrie Colts astatine 7 p.m.

The crippled volition travel precisely 22 years aft the first-ever lawsuit astatine the downtown arena, which opened connected Oct. 11, 2002 arsenic the Knights edged the visiting Plymouth Whalers 5-4.

London volition big the Guelph Storm connected Saturday astatine 4 p.m.

Both games tin beryllium heard connected 980 CFPL, astatine www.980cfpl.ca and connected the iHeart Radio app and the Radioplayer Canada app.