Two early power play goals propelled the London Knights back on the ice on Wednesday night as they beat the Erie Otters 4-2 at Budweiser Garden.
As Easton Cowan and then George Diako fired wrist shots into the Erie net and celebrated with their teammates, each took a moment to point to the rafters at Budweiser Garden as a tribute to Abkar Kazbekov, whose life was The ceremony and video tribute preceded the remembrance. game. Kazbekov died on 17 December.
Diako flew through the middle of the opening period on the London man advantage over the Otters blue line and fed Cowan in the slot.
Just a minute later, Diako found a pass from Logan Mailloux and scored his 15th goal of the year to make it 2–0.
The Otters scored the only goal of the second period as Noah Sedor flipped Ondrej Molnar’s rebound into the Knight net to cut the Knights’ lead to 2–1.
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London restored their two-goal lead in the third period when Isaiah George drove hard to the Erie net and fired a shot on goal that Lalonde pounced on the rebound only for Knights co-captain Sean McGurn to chip in.
George then cooled off the game with a 200-foot bank shot from his area, down the ice and into an empty net to end the scoring 4–1.
Caleb Smith of the Otters deflected a puck with just 37.5 seconds remaining in the third period.
George and McGurn each had a goal and an assist in the game, and Diakko had a goal and two assists.
Brett Brochu made 23 saves for London and also picked up an assist in the game.
The Knights defeated Erie 31–25.
London’s win along with the Windsor Spitfires’ loss to Guelph propelled the Knights into first place in the OHL’s Western Conference as they went into a home-and-home series with the Sarnia Sting.
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Team Canada will face Sweden at Örebro in a quarterfinal matchup at the Spengler Cup on Thursday, December 29 in Davos, Switz. London’s Connor Hughes scored for one of Canada’s games and former Knight Michael Hutchinson started for Canada. in others. Doug Stacey of London is with Team Canada as the club’s athletic physician.
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The Knights will meet the Sarnia Sting for the first time in the 2022-23 regular season on Friday, December 30 in Sarnia, Ontario, for the first home-and-home series to end the calendar year. The teams will play in London, Ontario at 4 p.m. On 31 December.
Sting has made it clear that what they expect is loading for a long period of time this year. Sarnia added Dallas Stars prospect Christian Kyro in a trade with the Erie Otters on December 14 after acquiring Sasha Pestuzov from the Guelph Storm in November.
Coverage begins at 6:30 PM on 980 CFPL www.980cfpl.ca and on the Radioplayer Canada app.
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