London Knights log a night of firsts in 5-2 win over Flint Firebirds

Rene Van Bommel and Blake Arrowsmith scored their archetypal vocation OHL goals and Alexei Medvedev recorded his archetypal triumph successful his archetypal vocation commencement arsenic the London Knights bushed the Firebirds 5-2 successful Flint connected Sept. 28.

The triumph was besides London’s archetypal of the 2024-25 play arsenic the teams completed a home-and-home bid to statesman the year.

The Knights and Firebirds traded goals successful the opening 20 minutes with Flint skipper Connor Clattenburg opening the scoring connected a powerfulness play astatine the 8:17 mark. Arrowsmith tied the crippled for the Knights conscionable implicit a infinitesimal aboriginal connected a large idiosyncratic effort that saw him divided the defence, gully a punishment and past slope a rebound disconnected Firebirds goalie Nathan Day.

In the 2nd period, London pushed successful beforehand arsenic Noah Jenken stepped up successful centre crystal and intercepted a pass.

Jenken got the puck crossed the bluish enactment to Noah Read and Read slid a beauteous walk from close to near to Van Bommel, who picked a apical country for a 2-1 London lead. Read ended the crippled with 2 assists.

Just 31 seconds aboriginal Alec Leonard blasted a puck from the near broadside boards done a sliver of abstraction connected the abbreviated broadside of Day, and the Knights took a 3-1 pb to the 3rd period.

Rylan Fellinger tightened the spread for Flint with his archetypal OHL extremity connected a agelong wrist changeable done postulation astatine 11:29 of the third. But London restored its two-goal pb connected a laser of a wrist changeable by Los Angeles Kings imaginable Jared Woolley.

Evan Van Gorp sealed the crippled for the Knights with 36.3 seconds remaining arsenic helium stole a puck astatine his bluish enactment and launched it down the crystal into an bare nett for Van Gorp’s 2nd extremity of the year.

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Medvedev recorded his archetypal triumph successful his archetypal Ontario Hockey League start. He had played 43 seconds of London’s archetypal crippled of the play erstwhile helium had to leap betwixt the pipes aft Owen Willmore’s pad came undone successful the archetypal play of a 7-4 Knights nonaccomplishment to the Firebirds.

Flint outshot London 35-24.

The Knights were 1-for-5 connected the powerfulness play and 9-for-10 connected the punishment kill.

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The Knights volition look a squad they person already seen doubly this twelvemonth arsenic they instrumentality location from their archetypal roadworthy crippled to spell head-to-head with the Erie Otters.

London swept a home-and-home with Erie successful aboriginal September astatine Budweiser Gardens successful London, Ont., and astatine the Joe Thornton Community Centre successful St. Thomas, Ont.

The crippled volition beryllium the archetypal of six regular play meetings betwixt the teams successful 2024-25.

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