The London Knights are an ideal 1-0 at Canada Life Place.
Of their inaugural recreation at their newly named house Sam Dickinson scored two energy play objectives simply 14 seconds aside to finish a hat trick after which Evan Van Gorp toe-dragged a defenceman and scored the eventual recreation profitable objective to present the London Knights a 5-4 victory over the Barrie Colts on Oct. 11 in entrance of 9061 followers.
The trio of objectives introduced London again from a 4-2 third interval deficit.
All three of Dickinson’s objectives within the recreation got here on the person benefit.
The San Jose Sharks first-rounder now has 4 objectives on the season and every of them has been an influence play objective.
The Knights opened the scoring late within the first as Easton Cowan made a backhand move from the left facet of the Barrie zone that freed up Dickinson to stroll in from the center of the blue line and choose his spot for his 2nd objective of the season on the 19:06 mark.
Two second interval objectives by former Ottawa 67’s ahead Brad Gardiner put Barrie in entrance 2-1 inside the primary six minutes of the second interval earlier than London got here again to tie the sport on Jesse Nurmi’s first profession OHL objective.
Denver Barkey bought the puck in behind the Colts internet and fed Nurmi who drilled a shot previous Sam Hillebrandt to make it 2-2.
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Barrie bounced again in entrance earlier than the top of the second as Wakely scored his first objective in a Colts uniform with 6.2 seconds remaining. It got here short-handed.
Wakely was acquired by Barrie on Oct. 9 in a commerce with the North Bay Battalion.
Wakely scored his second short-handed objective close to the top of a Knights man benefit at 3:25 of the third interval to place barrie forward 4-2.
The rating stayed that well beyond the half-way mark of the third when London discovered themselves on a 5-on-3 man benefit.
Dickinson scored his second objective of the sport at 13:22 to chop the Barrie result in one proper earlier than the primary Colts penalty had ended.
Off the faceoff Dickinson performed freight practice and got here steaming throughout the Barrie blue line and wired a shot over Hillbrandt to even the rating 4-4.
Just below two minutes later Jared Woolley dropped a move to Van Gorp coming into the Colts zone on the left facet and Van Gorp bought himself into the slot, dragged the puck round a defenceman and snapped it off Hillebrandt’s pad and in as Canada Life Place erupted.
Cowan and Oliver Bonk every had a pair of assists within the recreation.
Cowan additionally introduced the gang out of their seats with a back-check within the second interval that noticed him catch Utah first-rounder Cole Beaudoin on a breakaway. Cowan stole the puck off Beaudoin’s stick cleanly after which calmly despatched it again up the ice the opposite approach.
Barrie outshot the Knights 25-24.
Chasing their very own report
in 2023-24 the London Knights tied the Ontario Hockey League report for many short-handed objectives in a season after they tallied 29. No staff had achieved that for the reason that 1988-89 Niagara Falls Thunder, a franchise that has resided in Erie, Pa., for nearly 30 years now. That’s how uncommon a feat one thing like that occurs to be. London has already scored two shirt-handed objectives in 2024-25 and with the return of Easton Cowan and Denver Barkey the query turns into: What number of can the Knights rating this season? Barkey and Cowan tied for prime spot in short-handed objectives a yr in the past with seven apiece.
Up subsequent
London will host the Guelph Storm on Saturday, Oct. 14 at 4 p.m.
The Storm are lacking a key piece of their staff for now and perhaps even for all the season.
Londoner Jett Luchanko made the opening night time roster of the Philadelphia Flyers and made his NHL debut on Oct. 11 in Vancouver.
Guelph has managed 3-2 report out of the gate and is coming off a win over the Peterborough Petes.
The pre-game present will start at 3:30 p.m., on 980 CFPL, at http://www.980cfpl.ca and on the iHeart Radio and Radioplayer Canada apps.
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