London Knights put on a clinic in 5-1 win in Sault Ste. Marie

The London Knights won their seventh crippled successful a enactment arsenic they downed the Soo Greyhounds 5-1 astatine GFL Memorial Gardens connected Nov.6, 2024.

London piled up 43 shots connected extremity connected the roadworthy and constricted the hometown Greyhounds to 13 shots astatine Austin Elliott successful the Knight nett and Easton Cowan stretched his regular play constituent streak to 46 games with a brace of 3rd play goals.

The Knights came retired accelerated and enactment the archetypal 7 shots of the crippled connected the Greyhound net, but it was Sault Ste. Marie who opened the scoring arsenic 19-year aged Justin Cloutier deflected a changeable from the near constituent implicit Austin Elliott for a 1-0 pb astatine 6:07 of the archetypal period.

London tied the crippled connected a powerfulness play astatine the 15:25 people arsenic Easton Cowan started a play connected the near broadside of the Greyhounds portion that went done Sam Dickinson and Jesse Nurmi who recovered Landon Sim successful the slot for his 5th extremity of the play and the teams sat tied 1-1 done 20 minutes.

Dickinson had a extremity and an assistance and was named the game’s archetypal star.

An aboriginal 2nd play powerfulness play for the Knights led to their 2nd extremity of the crippled arsenic Sam O’Reilly was stopped successful beforehand of the Sault Ste. Marie nett but Oliver Bonk was not. Bonk lifted the rebound successful for his 2nd extremity of the twelvemonth and a 2-1 London advantage.

Dickinson made it 3-1 erstwhile helium drilled a debased slap changeable down Schenkel astatine 16:34 of the mediate period.

O’Reilly assisted connected that extremity arsenic good and the Knights carried a two-goal vantage into the last 20 minutes.

Cowan buried back-to-back goals connected archetypal a partial breakaway conscionable 1:20 into the 3rd play and past connected a full-fledged breakaway astatine 7:33 and London led 5-1.

The Knights gave up conscionable 2 shots successful the last period.

Austin Elliott improved to a cleanable 5-0 successful extremity for the Knights.

London skipper Denver Barkey had a brace of assists.

The Knights were 2-for-5 connected the powerfulness play and 3-for-3 connected the punishment kill.

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The erstwhile London Knight made his National Hockey League debut for the New York Islanders connected Nov. 5 against Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins. George was a fourth-round prime of the Islanders successful 2022. He played 178 games for the Knights and was a plus-72 with 75 full points arsenic a defenceman.

Ryan Winterton made his play debut for the Seattle Kraken connected Nov. 5 against Colorado. Winterton helped the Knights to the 2023 OHL Championship series. He played successful 9 games for the Kraken successful 2023-24.

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London volition instrumentality location to look the North Bay Battalion astatine Canada Life Place connected Friday, Nov. 8, astatine 7 p.m.

Former Knight Adam Dennis is successful his sixth twelvemonth astatine the helm of the Battalion. He spent 5 arsenic General Manager earlier being fixed the rubric of President and Director of Hockey Operations for 2024-25.

The Battalion person reached the Eastern Conference title successful each of the past 3 seasons.

They are 7-7-2 this twelvemonth and are presently winless successful their past 4 games.

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