London Knights beat Saginaw Spirit 4-1 for third straight win – London
A week and a day after the Spirit of Saginaw defeated the Knights in London, the Knights returned the favor in Saginaw.
Sam O’Reilly and Sam Dickinson each had a goal and an assist in a 4-1 win for London at Michigan’s Dow Event Center.
Denver Barkey recorded two assists for the Knights and Easton Cowan extended his point streak with a third-period goal.
Seconds after Cowan fed Barkey for a short-handed chance that was denied by the glove of Spirit goalie Andrew Oke, O’Reilly took a pass from Dickinson and fired a wrist shot through Oke’s legs to make the score 1-0. 9:09 a.m. marks the opening period.
Dickinson put London up 2-0 at 12:20 of the second period as he took a beautifully executed pass from Barkey and went in alone to score his team-best seventh goal of the season.
Both Sams on the Knights roster have now scored goals in each of their last two games.
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Michael Misa scored his 16th goal of the season in his 12th game by stealing a puck outside the London blue line and firing a low shot inside the far post.
Just 33 seconds later, Cowan fired a rebound at the other end of the ice. Cowan now has points in all seven games of the 2024-25 season. Going back to last year, Cowan now has at least one point in 43 regular season games in the OHL.
Landon Sim made a nice move to gain the offensive zone on the right wing just after the halfway point of the final period. Sim carried deep and distributed a nifty little pass to Evan Van Gorp and buried his sixth goal of the season for a 4-1 Knights advantage.
Alexei Medvedev was excellent in goal for the Knights making 28 saves on 29 shots.
Oke was very good at the other end of the ice as he was called upon to make big saves throughout the games.
Oke stopped 26 of the 30 shots he faced.
Both shots on goal were perfect.
London scored 6 out of 6.
The Spirit was 5 out of 5.
Brett Brochu gets off to a 2-0 start for the Fort Wayne Komets
That’s two games and two wins for Brett Brochu in 2024-25. The former Knight earned two wins in goal for the Fort Wayne Komets of the ECHL. Brochu made 30 saves in a 2–1 win over another former Londoner, Connor Federkow and the Iowa Heartlanders on October 19, then made 40 saves in a 5–4 win over Cincinnati on the 25th. october.
To be continued
London will play three games in three days on Sunday afternoon in Sarnia, Ontario against the Sting.
The Knights and Sarnia split two preparatory games.
Sarnia started the year with six wins and points in 10 of their first 13 games and they are led in scoring by 16-year-old Londoner Beckham Edwards. Edwards has 11 points in 13 games.
Coverage will begin at 1:30 p.m., on 980 CFPL, at http://www.980cfpl.ca and on the iHeart Radio and Radioplayer Canada applications.
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