London Knights take battle of OHL’s top two teams

Easton Cowan’s empty-net extremity with 30.4 seconds remaining extended his regular-season scoring streak to 52 games and sealed a 3-1 London Knights triumph implicit the Kitchener Rangers astatine the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium.

The Rangers had managed to support Cowan disconnected the scoresheet and helium needed a 2nd effort aft a archetypal effort deflected wide by the Maple Leafs imaginable got the puck backmost and buried it.

Cowan is present tied with erstwhile Ottawa 67’s guardant Jim Fox and is 3 games backmost of Doug Gilmour’s 55-game stretch.

London has present won 12 consecutive games and 15 of 16 and trails Kitchener by conscionable a azygous constituent for archetypal spot wide with 2 games successful hand.

Chicago Blackhawks imaginable Jack Pridham opened the scoring for Kitchener connected a powerfulness play astatine the 11:45 people of the archetypal play arsenic helium snapped a wrist changeable into the London nett from the apical of the close circle. Pridham’s begetter is Toronto Maple Leafs adjunct wide manager, Brandon Pridham.

Late successful the period, Knights guardant Jesse Nurmi won a puck conflict successful down the Rangers nett and recovered Oliver Bonk successful beforehand for his 2nd extremity successful arsenic galore games and 4th extremity of the year. That tied the crippled 1-1.

London guardant Blake Montgomery besides picked up an assistance connected the play for his archetypal constituent successful the Ontario Hockey League.

The Knights took the pb successful the 2nd play connected a powerfulness play extremity by Sam Dickinson arsenic helium zoomed retired of his ain zone, got done centre crystal and pulled disconnected a give-and-go with Denver Barkey for Dickinson’s 12th extremity of the twelvemonth and a 2-1 London advantage.

Knights goalie Alexei Medvedev recorded his archetypal OHL assistance connected Dickinson’s goal.

London outshot Kitchener 19-4 successful the mediate 20 minutes.

The Rangers gave a bully propulsion implicit the past 5 minutes and forced Medvedev to marque respective bully stops including 1 that deflected disconnected the limb of his ain defenceman, but the rookie goaltender made each the saves helium had to and Cowen’s extremity completed the scoring.

The Knights outshot Kitchener 38-21 successful the game.

Both teams were 1-for-5.

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The Knights volition play 3 games successful 3 days starting connected Nov. 22 astatine location against the Owen Sound Attack astatine 7 p.m. astatine Canada Life Place.

Following that matchup, London volition caput westbound for their 3rd of 4 meetings this play with the Saginaw Spirit.

Both clubs person won successful the other’s building. That crippled happens connected Saturday, Nov. 23 astatine 7 p.m., astatine the Dow Event Center successful mid-Michigan.

On Nov. 24 the Knights instrumentality location to conscionable the Ottawa 67’s astatine 4 p.m. astatine Canada Life Place.

All games tin beryllium heard connected 980 CFPL, astatine www.980cfpl.ca and connected the iHeart Radio and Radioplayer Canada apps.