London Knights knock off Guelph Storm for their 3rd straight victory

William Nicholl scored doubly and added an assistance arsenic the London Knights defeated the Guelph Storm 5-1 astatine Canada Life Place connected Oct. 12, 2024.

The triumph gave the Knights their 3rd triumph successful a row.

Nicholl had been denied doubly connected aboriginal rushes that saw him get the puck close to the Guelph net, lone to beryllium stopped by Storm goalie Brayden Gillespie but was rewarded astatine 17:47 of the archetypal play erstwhile Cohen Bidgood got the puck into the Guelph crease and Nicholl got it crossed the extremity enactment for a 1-0 London lead.

P.J. Fagan gave London a 2-0 pb with his archetypal Ontario Hockey League goal. Fagan ripped a wrist changeable past Gillespie astatine 6:34 of the 2nd period.

Fagan past took a deed to marque a play connected London’s 3rd goal. He absorbed a dense cheque connected the near broadside of the Storm portion but got the puck heavy and it yet coiled up connected the instrumentality of Nicholl, who tried to provender it crossed the crease lone to person it spell disconnected a Guelph defender and into the net. Fagan ended up leaving the crippled aft the extremity was scored and did not return.

In between, Storm archetypal rounder Alex McLean scored connected the powerfulness play arsenic Guelph recovered an unfastened spot successful down Owen Willmore and the people sat 3-1 successful favour of the Knights done 40 minutes.

The Storm deed the station 3 times successful the 2nd period.

Easton Cowan scored his 2nd extremity of the play disconnected a faceoff successful the 3rd play arsenic helium skated into the precocious slot and ripped a changeable implicit Gillespie to marque it 4-1 and past Evan Van Gorp finished the scoring into an bare net.

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Van Gorp took a walk from Nicholl and past appeared to effort to get it backmost to Nicholl to decorativeness his chapeau instrumentality but it coiled up going successful to implicit the scoring.

London outshot the Storm 35-27.

Owen Willmore recorded his archetypal triumph of the play successful the Knight nett arsenic helium made 26 stops.

Guelph was 1-for-4 connected the powerfulness play.

London was 0-for-1.

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