Generally while you beat a staff in their very own constructing they are going to “present you the door.”
After a 4-3 shootout victory in Owen Sound on Feb. 3 the London Knights will gladly check out that door.
In truth they may wish to thank the door. It might have performed a giant function in persevering with London’s streak that has seen them go 17-0-0-2 of their final 19 video games.
With 9:02 remaining within the third interval there was a prolonged delay to restore a door within the Owen Sound finish of the ice that may not keep closed.
In truth a physique examine by Knights ahead Kasper Halttunen knocked Assault defenceman Madden Steen by means of it.
The upkeep crew on the Harry Lumley Bayshore Group Centre managed to repair it and the sport resumed. London turned a 3-1 deficit right into a 3-3 tie.
Denver Barkey scored the one aim in a four-round shootout and Owen Willmore made 4 saves to provide the Knights their first shootout win in 2023-24.
Colby Barlow of the Assault stayed scorching as he opened the scoring with an influence play aim at 3:53 of the primary interval. It was Barlow’s sixth aim in six video games.
Owen Sound thought they’d one other one when Servac Petrovsky appeared to attain. The play was dominated a aim on the ice, however it was reviewed and decided that the puck had hit the crossbar and stayed out.
Easton Cowan of the Knights additionally hit a crossbar within the opening 20 minutes.
London defenceman Oliver Bonk left the sport within the first interval after being struck within the face by a puck.
Bonk returned within the second sporting a full face protect and 4:06 into that interval the Knights tied the sport as Alec Leonard wristed a shot from the left level previous Carter George within the Assault web and the sport was tied.
It solely stayed that method for a little bit over three minutes till Barlow discovered the again of the web for the second time on an Owen Sound man benefit. He blasted a one-timer into the London web for his one hundredth profession aim and that had the Assault forward 2-1 by means of 40 minutes.
Sam McCue banged in a rebound to provide the Assault a two-goal cushion however the door delay gave the Knights a break and a few new life.
Cowan scored 44 seconds after play resumed to make it 3-2 after which Bonk tied the sport with a move that banked off a leg and in with simply 1:13 to go in regulation time. It was the second time in every week that Bonk had scored a recreation tying aim. He fired a shot into the Erie Otters web with 1:19 remaining on Jan. 27.
London outshot the Assault 5-0 in time beyond regulation however Carter George stored the puck out.
That set the stage for Willmore and Barkey within the shootout.
The Knights outshot Owen Sound 46-27.
London was 0-for-4 on the ability play.
The Assault have been 2-for-5.
Barkey’s short-handed pursuit
Knights ahead Denver Barkey has extra short-handed targets than 50% of the groups within the Ontario Hockey League have. His seventh of the yr got here on Feb. 2 in opposition to the Erie Otters when Erie goalie Jacob Gibbons gave the puck away to Easton Cowan and Cowan discovered Barkey going to the Otters web all by himself. Barkey has probably the most short-handed targets in an OHL season since Tucker Robertson scored eight in 2021-22.
The OHL single-season report belongs to Keith Osborne of the Niagara Falls Thunder who racked up 12 short-handed targets within the 1988-89 season. Osborne was chosen twelfth total by the St. Louis Blues within the 1987 NHL Entry Draft. He appeared in solely 16 video games within the Nationwide Hockey League however performed skilled hockey in North America and Europe from 1989 by means of to 2000-01.
London now has 22 short-handed targets this yr as a staff. The 2015-16 Barrie Colts scored 28.
Up subsequent
London will full three video games in three cities in 48 hours after they play the Storm in Guelph at 4 p.m., on Feb. 4.
The Knights and Storm haven’t seen one another since Nov. 15 however have performed three of the six common season video games in opposition to one another already. London has received all three by a mixed rating of 13-3.
Former Knight Brody Crane who’s from Union, Ont., and Zander Vecchia of Ridgetown, Ont., have been each acquired by Guelph on the 2023 OHL commerce deadline.
Protection will begin at 3:30 p.m., on 980 CFPL, at http://www.980cfpl.ca and on the Radioplayer Canada app.
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