London Knights return home to win 4th straight game against Erie Otters

Jared Woolley and Denver Barkey each had a extremity and an assistance arsenic the London Knights defeated the Erie Otters 4-2 connected Jan. 31 astatine Canada Life Place.

Barkey and Easton Cowan some returned to the lineup aft missing clip connected the Knights bluish roadworthy travel and Cowan instantly factored successful connected the archetypal extremity of the game.

With London sidesplitting a penalty, Cowan took a puck retired to centre crystal and past took a crisp crook astatine the Otters bluish enactment and fed a puck backmost into his ain portion to Jared Woolley. Erie took the accidental to effort to marque a enactment alteration and Woolley caught them. He zipped a walk up to Jacob Julien and the erstwhile London Jr. Knight raced into the Otters portion and, similar the reflector representation of Darryl Sittler deking retired Vladimir Dzurilla of Czechoslovakia successful the 1976 Canada Cup, Julien got astir Otters goalie Noah Erliden and slid the puck location for a 1-0 lead.

The play was reviewed to find whether it was onside and the extremity stood and the Knights took a one-goal pb to the 2nd period.

The assistance by Cowan extended his regular-season constituent streak to 63 games.

Erie tied the crippled conscionable 1:27 into the 2nd play arsenic Quinn McCall scored his archetypal Ontario Hockey League goal.

London jumped backmost successful beforehand of the Otters connected a extremity by Jared Woolley arsenic helium slipped a 3rd rebound past Erliden astatine the 9:50 people of the mediate period.

Kasper Halttunen acceptable up Barkey for Barkey’s 17th extremity of the twelvemonth conscionable implicit 5 minutes aboriginal and the Knights were up 3-1.

Halttunen had a brace of assists connected the night.

Before the extremity of the second, Malcolm Spence chopped London’s pb to 3-2 arsenic helium grabbed a puck connected the near broadside of the Knights portion and got to the nett wherever helium lifted a backhand disconnected the extremity station and in.

Landon Sim’s 21st of the play made it 4-2 aboriginal successful the 3rd period.

London outshot the Otters 41-29.

The Knights were 0-for-4 connected the powerfulness play.

Erie was 0-for-3.

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Austin Elliott headed to UMass-Lowell for 2025-26

After helium completes his overage twelvemonth successful the OHL with the London Knights, goaltender Austin Elliott volition caput to the NCAA.

Elliott has committed to play astatine UMass-Lowell successful Lowell, Mass.

“It’s a large league down determination with tons of high-end endowment and it conscionable gives maine a small spot of a longer runway to get immoderate NHL eyes connected me,” Elliott admitted.

But it has created an added workload for him disconnected the ice.

“You tin inquire the remainder of the team. I was doing homework connected the autobus and successful the hotels (on the roadworthy trip) and grinding it out.”

Elliott is presently 20-0-0-0 connected the play arsenic is expected to get the commencement against the Windsor Spitfires connected Groundhog Day.

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London and Windsor volition conscionable for the 4th clip this twelvemonth astatine 7 p.m., connected Sunday, Feb. 2 astatine 7 p.m.

The Knights person beaten the Spitfires doubly successful games played astatine Canada Life Place.

Windsor has won the lone crippled played astatine the WFCU Centre.

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