Jesse Nurmi and Easton Cowan every scored twice and Kasper Halttunen recorded 4 assists because the London Knights defeated the Sudbury Wolves 8-1 on Jan. 19 at Canada Life Place.
The victory prolonged London’s profitable streak to 5 video games. They now have at the very least one level in 11 consecutive video games and stretched their result in 4 factors atop the Ontario Hockey League standings.
Cowan ended the day with three factors as he assisted on a Denver Barkey objective within the second interval. That stretched Cowan’s regular-season level streak to 60 video games. The Wolves had been the final workforce to carry Cowan off the scoresheet in a sport, again on Nov. 24, 2023.
Landon Sim obtained the primary objective of the sport and his fourth objective in three video games as he buried an Evan Van Gorp cross on a two-on-one. Sim now has 17 objectives on the season.
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Knights ahead Sam O’Reilly scored his 18th of the yr simply 2:12 into the second interval to make it 2-0 for the Knights. Jared Woolley discovered O’Reilly with a cross that despatched him in alone on Dorchester, Ont., native Marcus Vandenberg.
Vandenberg was recalled from the OJHL’s Leamington Flyers following an damage to Sudbury goalie Nate Krawchuk. Earlier than this yr Vandenberg performed two and a half seasons within the OHL with Sudbury, Niagara and Kitchener.
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The Wolves reduce the London lead in half when Rowan Henderson snuck a shot previous Austin Elliott at 5:35 of the second interval. Elliott improved his report as a Knights goalie to 18-0-0-0 with the win.
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From there London broke the sport open, scoring 4 objectives earlier than the top of the center interval, two of them on the ability play.
The primary noticed Cowan discover Barkey together with the online for a tap-in at 10:45. Cowan then added two objectives of his personal and Henry Brzustewicz deflected an O’Reilly cross over Vandenberg. The play was reviewed for potential goaltender interference however the objective was allowed and thru 40 minutes the Knights led 6-1.
Jesse Nurmi added two objectives within the third interval to complete the scoring on the day. The second was arrange by Halttunen – the pair received a silver medal collectively on the World Junior Hockey Championship taking part in for Finland.
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Barkey had a objective and an help to offer him 21 factors in his previous 7 video games.
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Oliver Bonk had a pair of assists for the Knights as properly.
London outshot Sudbury 37-18.
The Knights had been 2-for-6 on the ability play and 3-for-3 on the penalty kill.
Hancock nonetheless scoring in ICEHL
In his last season within the Ontario Hockey League, Kevin Hancock scored 52 objectives as he {split} the yr between the Owen Sound Assault and the London Knights. From there Hancock went straight to the professionals with Tucson of the American Hockey League and Speedy Metropolis of the ECHL. He spent two seasons in North America earlier than making the soar to Europe the place the Mississauga, Ont., native has change into a star in Austria within the Worldwide Central European Hockey League (affectionately generally known as the ICEHL). Hancock is taking part in for Villacher SV and at present sits second general in league scoring, only one level again of John Hughes who additionally performed within the OHL with Belleville and Brampton between 2004 and 2008.
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The Knights head for Kitchener on Jan. 21 to fulfill the Rangers for simply the third time this season.
London has overwhelmed the Rangers within the first two matchups however each have been tight.
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The Knights received 3-1 in Kitchener in November after which 3-2 again at Canada Life Place on Dec. 15.
The pregame present will start at 6:30 p.m., on 980 CFPL, at 980cfpl.ca and on the iHeart Radio and Radioplayer Canada apps.
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