London Knights beat Guelph Storm in wild game to extend winning streak to nine – London

The first goal came after just 37 seconds into the match.

The final goal came with just 3.6 seconds left.

A lot happened in between as the London Knights overcame the Storm 8-7 on Nov. 10 at the Sleeman Center in Guelph.

Evan Van Gorp emerged from the chaos on the London side with a career-high goal and four assists and several key defensive plays.

Max Namestnikov shone in the Guelph side with four goals – scoring just two in 15 games entering the afternoon.

Add to that the fact that Easton Cowan's 48-game regular season scoring streak was extended with less than 30 seconds to play, and the game had about as much drama as you'd find in a Hallmark special on W Network.

The teams combined to score three goals in just the first 74 seconds.

Namestnikov (37 seconds in), Cam Allen (59 seconds in) and Will Nicholl (74 seconds in) had a pair of goals on the scoreboard for the Storm and a single for London before some of the 4,769 fans were even in their seats.

Nicholl finished the match with a goal and three assists.

The Knights continued to apply the pressure and were rewarded when Henry Brzustewicz slotted home his third goal in two games from the right point, leveling the match after a move started by Van Gorp in the right corner.

It stayed that way until a turnover in center allowed Londoner Jett Luchanko to skate the puck into Knight territory and find big Vancouver Canucks prospect Vilmer Alriksson, and he scored in his fourth of the year to put Guelph in 20 minutes to give them a 3-2 lead.

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Brzustewicz's second of the day tied the game at 3-3 on a power play at 2:13 of the second period, before London took its first lead of the day when Van Gorp flew in over the Storm line on the right and found Jared Woolley went to the net and the score was 4-3.

It wasn't there long.

A Guelph power play allowed Namestnikov to make a shot from the slot to make it 4-4 at 12:36 of the second.

Noah Read's first OHL goal pushed London back into the lead with just under five minutes remaining in the period when he deflected a Sam Dickinson shot past Brayden Gillespie into the Storm net.

The Storm tied the score at 5-5 at 3:58 of the third period when Namestnikov completed his hat trick.

Once again London went ahead when Van Gorp crashed the net and scored on a rebound and it was 6-5 for the Knights.

Just 52 seconds later, Namestnikov's fourth of the afternoon brought the teams level again at 6-6.

Read knocked his own rebound out of the air for his second of the day (and his OHL career); he also had an assist in the match.

Cowan put a puck into an empty net with 21.9 seconds left, extending his regular season scoring streak to 49 consecutive games.

Londoner Parker Snelgrove added a final goal with 3.6 seconds left to end the score at 8-7.

Austin Elliott picked up the win in net for the Knights and is now 6-0 in a London uniform.

Sam Dickinson had three assists and Oliver Bonk had a pair of assists.

The Knights defeated Guelph 32-26 on the day.

Both teams were 1-for-2 on the power play.

Blake Montgomery officially joins the Knights

Blake Montgomery's dream growing up was to play NCAA hockey. Until a decision by the NCAA on November 7, he and other players who wanted to play in the NCAA were unable to play major junior hockey. That rule change allowed Montgomery to come play in London with the Knights before heading to the University of Wisconsin. Montgomery is also a fourth-round draft pick of the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League.

Hawery, Mitchell and Edwards gold at Under-17

Two members of the London Knights organization and one Londoner bring home gold medals from the Under-17 World Hockey Challenge in Sarnia, Ont., following Canada White's 3-1 victory over St. Thomas, Ont., native Parker Vaughn and Canadared.

Knights forward Logan Hawery set up Jean-Christophe Lemieux of the Windsor Spitfires to get Team White on the board in the gold medal game and then celebrated with Knights 2nd round pick Caleb Mitchell and Sarnia forward Beckham Edwards as the final buzzer sounded.

Both Canadian entries made it to the tournament finals, which also included Team USA, the Czech Republic, Sweden and Finland.

Next

London will take on Edwards and the Sarnia Sting at Canada Life Place on Friday, November 15 at 7:00 PM.

The Knights defeated the Sting 5-2 on October 27 in their only regular season meeting so far this season.

Coverage begins at 6:30 PM on 980 CFPL, at 6:30 PM http://www.980cfpl.ca and on the iHeart Radio and Radioplayer Canada apps.

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