Sam Dickinson sparks third period comeback as London Knights win first-ever game at Canada Life Place

The London Knights are a cleanable 1-0 astatine Canada Life Place.

In their inaugural crippled astatine their recently named location Sam Dickinson scored 2 powerfulness play goals conscionable 14 seconds isolated to implicit a chapeau instrumentality and past Evan Van Gorp toe-dragged a defenceman and scored the eventual crippled winning extremity to springiness the London Knights a 5-4 triumph implicit the Barrie Colts connected Oct. 11 successful beforehand of 9061 fans.

The trio of goals brought London backmost from a 4-2 3rd play deficit.

All 3 of Dickinson’s goals successful the crippled came connected the antheral advantage.

The San Jose Sharks first-rounder present has 4 goals connected the play and each of them has been a powerfulness play goal.

The Knights opened the scoring precocious successful the archetypal arsenic Easton Cowan made a backhand walk from the near broadside of the Barrie portion that freed up Dickinson to locomotion successful from the mediate of the bluish enactment and prime his spot for his 2nd extremity of the play astatine the 19:06 mark.

Two 2nd play goals by erstwhile Ottawa 67’s guardant Brad Gardiner enactment Barrie successful beforehand 2-1 wrong the archetypal six minutes of the 2nd play earlier London came backmost to necktie the crippled connected Jesse Nurmi’s archetypal vocation OHL goal.

Denver Barkey got the puck successful down the Colts nett and fed Nurmi who drilled a changeable past Sam Hillebrandt to marque it 2-2.

Barrie bounced backmost successful beforehand earlier the extremity of the 2nd arsenic Wakely scored his archetypal extremity successful a Colts azygous with 6.2 seconds remaining. It came short-handed.

Wakely was acquired by Barrie connected Oct. 9 successful a commercialized with the North Bay Battalion.

Wakely scored his 2nd short-handed extremity adjacent the extremity of a Knights antheral vantage astatine 3:25 of the 3rd play to enactment barrie up 4-2.

The people stayed that mode past the half-way people of the 3rd erstwhile London recovered themselves connected a 5-on-3 antheral advantage.

Dickinson scored his 2nd extremity of the crippled astatine 13:22 to chopped the Barrie pb to 1 close earlier the archetypal Colts punishment had ended.

Off the faceoff Dickinson played freight bid and came steaming crossed the Barrie bluish enactment and wired a changeable implicit Hillbrandt to adjacent the people 4-4.

Just nether 2 minutes aboriginal Jared Woolley dropped a walk to Van Gorp coming into the Colts portion connected the near broadside and Van Gorp got himself into the slot, dragged the puck astir a defenceman and snapped it disconnected Hillebrandt’s pad and successful arsenic Canada Life Place erupted.

Cowan and Oliver Bonk each had a brace of assists successful the game.

Cowan besides brought the assemblage retired of their seats with a back-check successful the 2nd play that saw him drawback Utah first-rounder Cole Beaudoin connected a breakaway. Cowan stole the puck disconnected Beaudoin’s instrumentality cleanly and past calmly sent it backmost up the crystal the different way.

Barrie outshot the Knights 25-24.

Chasing their ain record

in 2023-24 the London Knights tied the Ontario Hockey League grounds for astir short-handed goals successful a play erstwhile they tallied 29. No squad had done that since the 1988-89 Niagara Falls Thunder, a franchise that has resided successful Erie, Pa., for astir 30 years now. That’s however uncommon a feat thing similar that happens to be. London has already scored 2 shirt-handed goals successful 2024-25 and with the instrumentality of Easton Cowan and Denver Barkey the question becomes:  How galore tin the Knights people this season? Barkey and Cowan tied for apical spot successful short-handed goals a twelvemonth agone with 7 apiece.

Up next

London volition big the Guelph Storm connected Saturday, Oct. 14 astatine 4 p.m.

The Storm are missing a cardinal portion of their squad for present and possibly adjacent for the full season.

Londoner Jett Luchanko made the opening nighttime roster of the Philadelphia Flyers and made his NHL debut connected Oct. 11 successful Vancouver.

Guelph has managed 3-2 grounds retired of the gross and is coming disconnected a triumph implicit the Peterborough Petes.

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