Make it 10 straight wins for the London Knights after a victory over the Sarnia Sting

Easton Cowan and Jacob Julien each scored doubly and Denver Barkey and Sam Dickinson each had 4 assists arsenic the London Knights extended their winning streak to treble digits with a 5-3 triumph implicit the Sarnia Sting connected Nov.15 astatine Canada Life Place.

London has present won 10 consecutive games and 13 of their past 14.

And the team’s winning streak wasn’t the lone streak that continued.

Cowan kept his regular play tally live and deed the large 5-0.

Cowan had travel wrong 21.9 seconds of seeing his regular play scoring streak extremity against the Guelph Storm connected Nov. 10 earlier helium scored an empty-net extremity to widen it to 49 consecutive games.

The Maple Leafs imaginable got a accidental to deed 50 overmuch earlier against the Sting and made good. Cowan drilled a Denver Barkey walk into the backmost of the Sarnia nett connected a Knights powerfulness play 4:02 of the opening play to necktie the crippled 1-1.

Fifty games tied Cowan with Alexander Radulov connected the Canadian Hockey League database of longest stretches with astatine slightest 1 constituent successful each game. Radulov went 50 games with the Quebec Remparts successful 2005-06.

The lone players successful CHL past with longer streaks are Jimmy Fox astatine 52 and Doug Gilmout with 55.

Cowan’s extremity came aft Zach Filak had opened the scoring conscionable 2:51 into the game.

The archetypal extremity of the 2nd play was scored by a Londoner but not a London Knight.

A turnover successful the London portion led to a quick-developing two-on-oh for Sarnia wherever erstwhile Knight Kaedon Johnston recovered Beckham Edwards and helium deposited the puck down Alexei Medvedev for a 2-1 Sting.

The extremity got the attraction of the London broadside arsenic they cashed successful connected different powerfulness play arsenic Barkey and Sam Dickinson combined to acceptable up Cowan from the close broadside of the crystal astatine the 16:09 people of the 2nd period.

Barkey and Dickinson recorded their 3rd assists of the crippled with 8.3 seconds remaining successful the mediate play arsenic Dickinson got a puck up to Barkey. Barkey past slid a beauteous small walk to Will Nicholl who got successful down the Sarnia defence and past slid a puck done Nick Surzycia successful the Sting nett and the Knights carried a 3-2 pb into the last 20 minutes.

Julien got his archetypal of the crippled astatine 4:41 of the 3rd play arsenic helium fired location a ricochet disconnected a extremity station from the near broadside of the Sarnia end.

Time ticked down nether a infinitesimal and with the goalie pulled, the Sting got a extremity from Zach Filak to tighten the people to 4-3 but London responded close disconnected the faceoff with little than 30 seconds to spell arsenic Dickinson flipped a puck down the crystal that Barkey raced aft to bushed retired an icing.

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Barkey did bushed retired the icing and past fed Julien for his 2nd of the crippled and that sealed things for the Knights.

London outshot Sarnia 43-23.

The Knights stayed atop the powerfulness play rankings successful the OHL by going 2-for-3.

They were 2-for-2 connected the punishment termination and people short-handed successful the process.

San Jose Sharks instrumentality Kasper Halttunen to London Knights

After scoring 17 goals successful 18 playoff games to pb each extremity scorers and to assistance pb the London Knights to a 2024 OHL Championship, Kasper Halttunen is coming backmost for an encore. The San Jose Sharks announced connected Nov. 15 that they had reassigned Halttunen to London for the remainder of the 2024-25 season. Halttunen began the twelvemonth with the San Jose Barracudea of the American Hockey League wherever helium enactment up 2 goals and 4 points successful six games.

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The Knights instrumentality to Guelph to look the Storm connected Saturday, Nov. 16, astatine 4 p.m.

The teams combined for 15 goals successful an 8-7 London triumph connected Nov. 10.

Evan Van Gorp had a extremity and 4 assists for a vocation precocious 5 points successful that crippled portion Max Nemestnikov had 4 goals for Guelph.

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