Kaeden Hawkins and Ryan Brown every had three factors and Seb Gatto made 28 saves in aim because the London Knights defeated the Guelph Storm 6-2 on March 18 on the Sleeman Centre.
Hawkins and Brown every scored as soon as and added two assists as London clinched the season sequence between the 2 golf equipment, successful 4 of the six video games.
The win, coupled with a 4-3 Saginaw Spirit victory over the Soo Greyhounds on Wednesday, lifted the Knights previous Sault Ste. Marie and into fourth place within the Western Convention standings.
London and the Greyhounds every have two video games remaining on their schedules.
The groups skated via a scoreless first interval the place every membership had an opportunity on the facility play and matched one another in scoring alternatives with out having a puck hit the again of the web.
That each one modified for London within the second interval, because the Knights broke via and put up 4 objectives.
Hawkins returned to the London lineup towards the Storm after lacking 5 video games resulting from harm and he acquired issues began as he sprinted to a unfastened puck and backhanded it by Zach Jovanovski of the Storm at 7:26.
A tricky turnover behind the Guelph internet led to Will Nicholl’s thirteenth aim in his thirtieth sport this yr as he put the puck into a totally empty Storm internet at 13:33.
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Simply over two minutes later, Hawkins made an exquisite drop cross to Andoni Fimis and he made it 3-0 for London after which Brown scored his twenty second of the season proper off a faceoff within the Guelph zone with 1:32 remaining within the center interval. The rating sat 4-0 for the Knights via 40 minutes.
The Storm hit the scoreboard 19 seconds into the third interval on a wraparound aim by Ilya Shybinsky, however Jaxon Cowl’s energy play aim at 10:42 gave Cowl 20 objectives on the season and restored London’s four-goal benefit.
Jesse Nurmi slid a puck to Rene Van Bommel for Van Bommel’s tenth aim of the yr at 13:18.
Shybinskyi completed out the scoring at 6-2 only one minute and 6 seconds later along with his ninth energy play aim of the season.
The Storm outshot the Knights 30-22 as Seb Gatto earned his twenty third victory of the season.
London was 1-for-3 on the facility play.
The Storm had been 1-for-4 on the person benefit.
4 Knights prospects named to GOHL All-Rookie group
4 members of the London Knights 2025 draft class have earned honours as members of the 2025-26 GOHL All-Rookie group.
London’s second spherical choose Cooper McAslan (London Nationals), third spherical choose Eloan Le Gallic (St. Thomas), fifth spherical choose Jake Ritson (Strathroy) and 14th spherical choose Michael Pope (Caledon) had been named to the group on March 17.
Pope led Caledon in scoring with 25 objectives in a tricky yr that noticed the group win simply 5 video games out of fifty within the common season.
Ritson led the Rockets in scoring with 72 factors in 47 video games.
Le Gallic tied for second in St. Thomas scoring within the common season and leads the Stars in scoring via two playoff video games with a aim and three assists.
McAslan was eighth in defenceman scoring within the league simply behind Nationals teammate Cody Wooden, who can also be a Knights prospect.
Up subsequent
London will play their remaining house sport of the common season on Friday, March 20, at Canada Life Place towards the Windsor Spitfires.
Windsor is presently battling Flint for first place within the OHL’s West Division and the second total seed within the Western Convention.
The Spitfires are one level forward of the Firebirds and each groups have two video games remaining.
Recreation protection Wednesday will begin at 6:30 p.m., on 980 CFPL, www.980cfpl.ca and on the iHeart Radio and Radioplayer Canada apps.
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