London Knights fend off Wolves for fifth straight win

Jesse Nurmi and Easton Cowan each scored doubly and Kasper Halttunen recorded 4 assists arsenic the London Knights defeated the Sudbury Wolves 8-1 connected Jan. 19 astatine Canada Life Place.

The triumph extended London’s winning streak to 5 games. They present person astatine slightest 1 constituent successful 11 consecutive games and stretched their pb to 4 points atop the Ontario Hockey League standings.

Cowan ended the time with 3 points arsenic helium assisted connected a Denver Barkey extremity successful the 2nd period. That stretched Cowan’s regular-season constituent streak to 60 games. The Wolves were the past squad to clasp Cowan disconnected the scoresheet successful a game, backmost connected Nov. 24, 2023.

Landon Sim got the archetypal extremity of the crippled and his 4th extremity successful 3 games arsenic helium buried an Evan Van Gorp walk connected a two-on-one. Sim present has 17 goals connected the season.

Knights guardant Sam O’Reilly scored his 18th of the twelvemonth conscionable 2:12 into the 2nd play to marque it 2-0 for the Knights. Jared Woolley recovered O’Reilly with a walk that sent him successful unsocial connected Dorchester, Ont., autochthonal Marcus Vandenberg.

Vandenberg was recalled from the OJHL’s Leamington Flyers pursuing an wounded to Sudbury goalie Nate Krawchuk. Before this twelvemonth Vandenberg played 2 and a fractional seasons successful the OHL with Sudbury, Niagara and Kitchener.

The Wolves chopped the London pb successful fractional erstwhile Rowan Henderson snuck a changeable past Austin Elliott astatine 5:35 of the 2nd period. Elliott improved his grounds arsenic a Knights goalie to 18-0-0-0 with the win.

From determination London broke the crippled open, scoring 4 goals earlier the extremity of the mediate period, 2 of them connected the powerfulness play.

The archetypal saw Cowan find Barkey astatine the broadside of the nett for a tap-in astatine 10:45. Cowan past added 2 goals of his ain and Henry Brzustewicz deflected an O’Reilly walk implicit Vandenberg. The play was reviewed for imaginable goaltender interference but the extremity was allowed and done 40 minutes the Knights led 6-1.

Jesse Nurmi added 2 goals successful the 3rd play to decorativeness the scoring connected the day. The 2nd was acceptable up by Halttunen – the brace won a metallic medal unneurotic astatine the World Junior Hockey Championship playing for Finland.

Barkey had a extremity and an assistance to springiness him 21 points successful his past 7 games.

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Oliver Bonk had a brace of assists for the Knights arsenic well.

London outshot Sudbury 37-18.

The Knights were 2-for-6 connected the powerfulness play and 3-for-3 connected the punishment kill.

Hancock inactive scoring successful ICEHL

In his last play successful the Ontario Hockey League, Kevin Hancock scored 52 goals arsenic helium divided the twelvemonth betwixt the Owen Sound Attack and the London Knights. From determination Hancock went consecutive to the pros with Tucson of the American Hockey League and Rapid City of the ECHL. He spent 2 seasons successful North America earlier making the leap to Europe wherever the Mississauga, Ont., autochthonal has go a prima successful Austria successful the International Central European Hockey League (affectionately known arsenic the ICEHL). Hancock is playing for Villacher SV and presently sits 2nd wide successful league scoring, conscionable 1 constituent backmost of John Hughes who besides played successful the OHL with Belleville and Brampton betwixt 2004 and 2008.

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The Knights caput for Kitchener connected Jan. 21 to conscionable the Rangers for conscionable the 3rd clip this season.

London has beaten the Rangers successful the archetypal 2 matchups but some person been tight.

The Knights won 3-1 successful Kitchener successful November and past 3-2 backmost astatine Canada Life Place connected Dec. 15.

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