Make it 10 straight wins for the London Knights after a win over the Sarnia Sting – London

Easton Cowan and Jacob Julien each scored twice and Denver Barkey and Sam Dickinson each had four assists as the London Knights extended their winning streak to double figures with a 5-3 victory over the Sarnia Sting on Nov. 15 at Canada Life Place.

London has now won ten games in a row and thirteen of the last fourteen.

And the team's winning streak wasn't the only streak that continued.

Cowan kept his regular season run alive, hitting the big 5-0.

Cowan had come within 21.9 seconds of seeing his regular-season goal streak end against the Guelph Storm on Nov. 10 before scoring an empty-net goal to extend it to 49 consecutive games.

The Maple Leafs prospect had a chance to hit 50 against the Sting much earlier and made good on it. Cowan drilled a Denver Barkey pass into the back of the Sarnia net during a Knights power play 4:02 of the opening period to tie the game 1-1.

Through fifty games, Cowan was tied with Alexander Radulov on the Canadian Hockey League's list of longest games with at least one point in each game. Radulov played fifty games for the Quebec Remparts in 2005-2006.

The only players in CHL history with longer streaks are Jimmy Fox at 52 and Doug Gilmout at 55.

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Cowan's goal came after Zach Filak opened the scoring just 2:51 into the game.

The first goal of the second period was scored by a Londoner, but not a London Knight.

A turnover in the London zone led to a quickly developing two-on-oh for Sarnia, where former Knight Kaedon Johnston found Beckham Edwards and he put the puck behind Alexei Medvedev for a 2-1 Sting.

The goal caught the attention of the London squad as they capitalized on another power play when Barkey and Sam Dickinson teamed up to set up Cowan from the right side of the ice at 16:09 of the second period.

Barkey and Dickinson recorded their third assists of the game with 8.3 seconds left in the middle period when Dickinson got a puck ahead of Barkey. Barkey then made a beautiful little pass to Will Nicholl who got in behind the Sarnia defense and then slid a puck into the Sting net by Nick Surzycia to carry the Knights a 3-2 lead into the final 20 minutes.

Julien got his first of the game at 4:41 of the third period when he fired a ricochet off a goal post from the left side of the Sarnia end.

With less than a minute left in the clock, with the goalkeeper drawn, the Sting got a goal from Zach Filak to cut the score to 4-3, but London responded immediately after the face-off with less than 30 seconds left when Dickinson threw a puck across the ice. which Barkey ran after to defeat a cherry on the cake.

Barkey beat the cherry and then fed Julien for his second of the match and that sealed things for the Knights.

London defeated Sarnia 43-23.

The Knights remained atop the power play rankings in the OHL by going 2-for-3.

They went 2-for-2 after the penalty and scored with few hands.

San Jose Sharks bring Kasper Halttunen back to London Knights

After scoring 17 goals in 18 playoff games to lead all scorers and help lead the London Knights to a 2024 OHL championship, Kasper Halttunen returns for an encore. The San Jose Sharks announced on November 15 that they had moved Halttunen to London for the remainder of the 2024-2025 season. Halttunen started the year with the San Jose Barracudea of ​​the American Hockey League, where he scored two goals and four points in six games.

Next

The Knights return to Guelph to face the Storm on Saturday, November 16 at 4:00 p.m.

The teams combined to score fifteen goals in an 8–7 win in London on November 10.

Evan Van Gorp had a goal and four assists for a career high five points in that game, while Max Nemestnikov scored four goals for Guelph.

Coverage begins at 3:30 PM on 980 CFPL, op www.980cfpl.ca and on the iHeart Radio and Radioplayer Canada apps.

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