London Knights open final weekend of OHL pre-season with 6-3 win over Sarnia Sting – London

Evan Van Gorp scored four points to give the London Knights a 6-3 victory over the Sarnia Sting in London’s third exhibition game.

Logan Hawery scored the first goal of the game when he passed to Van Gorp from the edge of the Sarnia goal. The Watford, Ontario winger tapped the ball home.

Less than five minutes later, Hawery took a pass in the slot for Henry Brzustewicz to fire home his first goal of the preseason, and the Knights went into the second period with a 2-0 lead.

Kaeden Johnston scored his fifth goal in just three games last season to put London three goals up after just 19 seconds.

Caleb Mitchell, London’s 2024 second-round pick, scored his first goal as a Knight with a nice move off a faceoff that freed up some ice.

Van Gorp then scored two goals in succession in the space of 2:35 minutes to complete his hat-trick and put London 6-0 up.

A power-play goal from Ryan Brown made it 6-1 just before the end of the period.

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Brown scored another power-play goal at 9:08 in the third period and then completed a hat trick with his third goal of the game at 15:30.

Van Gorp finished with four points and was named the first star of the match.

Johnston had a goal and two assists and Brendan Gerber had two assists.

The Knights defeated Sarnia 36-30.

Alexei Medvedev made 13 saves in just over 30 minutes. He was replaced by Finn Wilson at 10:16 of the second period.

Wilson stopped 14 of 17 shots.

Nick Surzycia and Evan Maillet split goalkeeping duties for the Sting.

Twelve Knights at NHL training camps

Both Owen Willmore and Ryder Boulton have returned from the Ottawa Senators prospect camp, leaving a dozen players from London with National Hockey League teams.

Below is the schedule as the NHL begins pre-season play on Saturday, September 21.

Denver Barkey – Philadelphia

Olivcr Bonk – Philadelphia

Easton Cowan – Toronto

Sam Dickinson – San Jose

Ruslan Gazizov – Anaheim

Kasper Halttunen – San Jose

Jacob Julien – Winnipeg

William Nicholl – Edmonton

Jesse Nurmi – New York Islanders

Sam O’Reilly – Edmonton

Landon Sim – New Jersey

Jared Woolley – Los Angeles

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The Knights and Sting conclude their pre-season preparations with one more match against each other.

The race will take place at the Progressive Auto Sales Arena in Sarnia, Ontario, on Saturday, September 21 at 7:00 p.m.

The reporting starts at 6:30 PM, www.980cfpl.ca and on the Radioplayer Canada app and the iHeart Radio app.

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