Windsor Spitfires pull off comeback to defeat London Knights 4-3

A.J. Spellacy’s short-handed extremity conscionable nether 9 minutes into the 3rd play gave the Windsor Spitfires their archetypal pb of the crippled and they held connected from determination to decision the London Knights 4-3 astatine the WFCU Centre connected Feb. 2.

The nonaccomplishment was lone London’s 2nd successful regularisation successful the 2025 calendar year.

Windsor came backmost from a 3-0 shortage to adjacent the play bid betwixt the teams astatine 2 wins apiece.

A 5-on-3 powerfulness play for the Knights kicked disconnected the scoring arsenic Easton Cowan fed Denver Barkey for a one-timer connected the close broadside of the Spitfires portion to marque it 1-0 for London astatine 16:24 of the archetypal period.

The assistance extended Cowan’s regular play constituent streak to 64 games.

Just 36 seconds aboriginal Kasper Halttunen hammered a changeable from the slot down Windsor goalie Joey Costanzo to enactment the Knights up 2-0. Barkey and Landon Sim assisted connected Halttunen’s goal.

Jesse Nurmi banged successful a Henry Brzustewicz rebound astatine the 2:24 people of the 2nd play to agelong the London pb to 3-0 and extremity the nighttime for Costanzo who was replaced by erstwhile London Jr. Knight Carter Froggett successful the Spitfires net. Froggett would halt each 13 shots that helium faced.

Noah Morneau scored connected a Windsor powerfulness play astatine 8:19 of the 2nd play to chopped into the Knight lead.

Then with 27.5 seconds remaining connected the timepiece Anthony Cristoforo of the Spitfires fed Ilya Protas for the hockey equivalent of a hoops ally-oop arsenic Protas went to the nett disconnected a faceoff and enactment the puck successful and the Knights and Windsor headed to the 3rd play with London up by one.

Windsor tied the crippled 3-3 conscionable 53 seconds into the last play connected the 2nd extremity of the crippled by Protas and past took the pb connected Spellacy’s short-handed extremity erstwhile a puck popped into the aerial successful centre crystal and Spellacy recovered it and raced into the Knights portion wherever helium snapped the puck past London goalie Austin Elliott.

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The nonaccomplishment was Elliott’s archetypal successful a Knights azygous arsenic it ended a tally of 20-0-0-0 by the Strathmore, Alta., native.

Windsor outshot London 28-25.

The Knights were 2-for-8 connected the powerfulness play.

The Spitfires were 2-for-8.

Aleksei Medvedev named OHL Goaltender of the Month

In November 17-year aged Aleksei Medvedev was named Rookie of the Month. The London Knights netminder present has different honour for his trophy case. After posting a 1.99 goals against mean and a .937 prevention percent successful six games Medvedev was named OHL Goaltender of the Month for the period of January. The St. Petersburg, Rus., autochthonal went 4-1-1 successful those games.

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London returns location from a large crippled against Windsor to play an arsenic large crippled against the Kitchener Rangers.

The crippled volition diagnostic an aboriginal 6:30 p.m., commencement astatine Canada Life Place and volition bring unneurotic the apical 2 teams successful the wide Ontario Hockey League standings.

Coverage volition get going astatine 6 p.m., on 980 CFPL, astatine http://www.980cfpl.ca and connected the iHeart Radio and Radioplayer Canada apps.