Saginaw Spirit take down London Knights 5-1 to begin weekend

Zayne Parekh scored doubly to pb the Saginaw Spirit past the London Knights by a people of 5-1 connected Oct. 18 astatine Canada Life Place.

The crippled marked the archetypal gathering betwixt the teams since the 2024 Memorial Cup final.

The rematch featured penalties and powerfulness plays that factored into the last people arsenic Saginaw ended up scoring 3 times connected 5 powerfulness play opportunities.

London scored their extremity connected the antheral vantage arsenic well.

The teams won’t person to hold agelong to spot each different again arsenic they conscionable connected Saturday, Oct. 26 successful Saginaw, Mich.

Spirit guardant Lincoln Moore scored the archetypal extremity of the crippled connected a powerfulness play astatine 12:40 of the archetypal period. He was knocked down successful beforehand of the London nett but managed to get his instrumentality connected a rebound portion lying connected the crystal and tucked it underneath Knights goalie Alexei Medvedev for the lone extremity of the archetypal 20 minutes.

London tied the crippled connected a 4-on-3 antheral vantage aboriginal successful the 2nd play arsenic Sam Dickinson scored his 5th extremity of the year.

Every 1 of his goals this play person travel with the other man.

At the 8:35 people of the mediate play Parekh kept a puck successful a the near constituent and carried it on the bluish enactment to the mediate of the crystal wherever the Calgary Flames imaginable fired a wrist changeable done postulation and into the Knight nett for a 2-1 Saginaw lead.

Calem Mangone scored connected a extremity enactment plunge aboriginal successful the 3rd play aft immoderate fantabulous enactment by Spirit guardant Kristian Epperson to determination the puck astir the London portion and enactment Saginaw up 3-1.

Epperson past made it 4-1 connected a bully wrong determination coming crossed the Knights bluish enactment arsenic helium got to the nett and slipped the puck betwixt the legs of Medvedev who made 32 saves connected the nighttime for London.

Parekh’s 2nd of crippled came connected a hard slap changeable from the apical of the close ellipse connected a powerfulness play and that completed the scoring.

Saginaw outshot the Knights 37-18.

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Andrew Oke made 17 saves successful the Spirit net.

Sergei Kostitsyn inactive going strong

Sergei Kostitsyn played his last crippled for the London Knights alongside (OHL rookies) Patrick Kane and Sam Gagner successful 2006-07.

He made the leap to the National Hockey League the precise adjacent twelvemonth with the Montreal Canadiens wherever helium appeared successful 52 games successful the regular play and 13 much successful the playoffs.  After Montreal, Kostitsyn moved connected to Nashville wherever helium played until the extremity of 2013 earlier heading to the Kontinental Hockey League.

Kostitsyn is present into his 17th twelvemonth of nonrecreational hockey and his 3rd consecutive twelvemonth successful his location state of Belarus with Metallurg Zhlobin.

Through 14 games this play helium has 3 goals and 11 points.

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The Knights volition look the Erie Otters for the 2nd clip successful 2024-25.

The teams met successful London’s 3rd crippled of the play and the Otters walked distant with a 5-3 triumph against a London lineup that was inactive missing a fewer of the acquainted faces that person since returned.

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