London Knights knock off Erie Otters in Austin Elliott’s London debut

Austin Elliott made 30 saves successful his Ontario Hockey League debut arsenic the London Knights topped the Erie Otters 3-1 connected Sunday, Oct. 20 astatine Canada Life Place.

The triumph gave Elliott wins successful 2 leagues successful the Canadian Hockey League.

The Strathmore, Alta., autochthonal began his large inferior vocation with the Saskatoon Blades successful the Western Hockey League during the 2021-22  play and won 58 regular play games implicit his clip successful Saskatchewan.

Elliott was called connected to marque immoderate large saves astatine times and lived up to his “Stone Cold” nickname that helium was fixed with the Blades.

Otters goalie Noah Erliden was the communicative aboriginal successful the game. He made 17 stops successful the opening play to nonstop the teams to their dressing rooms astatine 0-0 done 20 minutes.

London broke the crystal doubly successful the 2nd period.

Oliver Bonk enactment a puck into the Erie nett but the play was reviewed and was ruled offside.

The Knights kept coming and got rewarded erstwhile London defenceman Jared Woolley got the puck to the slot and Rene Van Bommel enactment it into the nett astatine the 9:39 people to yet enactment a extremity connected what had been a lonely scoreboard.

That extremity wasn’t unsocial for long.

Just 24 seconds aft Van Bommel’s extremity a escaped puck successful the Knights extremity was scooped up by Sam Alfano and helium swooped to the nett and deked a backhand changeable past Austin Elliott who made his London debut.

Toronto Maple Leafs imaginable Easton Cowan enactment the Knights up again with a powerfulness play extremity astatine 14:48 of the 2nd play and past London’s William Nicholl jumped into a heap of radical astatine his extremity of the crystal and dislodged a puck that the Knights carried done centre crystal and Nicholl and Henry Brzustewicz combined to acceptable up Jesse Nurmi for his 2nd extremity of the season.

Brzustewicz present has 7 assists successful 7 games played this twelvemonth and London took a 3-1 pb implicit the Otters aft 40 minutes.

Elliott made 13 saves successful the last play for the Knights including a monolithic 1 connected a cross-crease provender to Alfano arsenic helium helped transportation London to their 4th triumph successful 5 tries.

The Knights outshot Erie 37-31.

London was 1-for-3 connected the powerfulness play and 5-for-5 connected the punishment kill.

Logan Mailloux scores his archetypal NHL goal

On Friday, Oct. 18 the Montreal Canadiens recalled Logan Mailloux aft his blistery violative commencement with the Laval Rocket successful the American Hockey League.

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On Saturday, Oct. 19 the erstwhile London Knight and London Nationals defenceman scored his archetypal extremity successful the National Hockey League against the New York Islanders.

After a could of chances astir the Islanders nett Mailloux recovered a brushed spot astatine the apical of the near ellipse successful the New York portion and Jake Evans recovered him. Mailloux drilled a changeable disconnected the station and successful to necktie the crippled 2-2 astatine that point.

The Islanders would yet triumph successful a shootout.

Ruslan Gazizov rocks nonrecreational debut

Former London Knights guardant Ruslan Gazizov scored doubly and added an assistance successful his ECHL debut with the Tulsa Oilers. Gazizov and the Oilers took down the Rapid City Rush 7-1 connected Oct. 19 successful their play opener.

Gazizov signed a declaration with the San Diego Gulls of the American Hockey League aft attending grooming campy with the Anaheim Ducks.

He was reassigned to Tulsa earlier the commencement of the ECHL season.

Up next

The Knights volition play their archetypal acceptable of 3 games successful 3 days opening connected Oct. 25 astatine 7 p.m., astatine location against the Brantford Bulldogs.

London volition spell to Saginaw to play the Spirit the adjacent nighttime and past decorativeness up against the Sarnia Sting astatine 2 p.m., connected Sunday, Oct. 27.

All games tin beryllium heard connected 980 CFPL, astatine http://www.980cfpl.ca and connected the iHeart Radio and Radioplayer Canada apps with the pregame amusement opening 30 minutes earlier puck drop.