London Knights go perfect on the road in the pre-season with 6-5 win over Barrie Colts – London

Brody Crane’s shot trickled beneath Matteo Lalama of the Barrie Colts within the sixth spherical of the shootout to offer the London Knights a 6-5 victory on Thursday evening in Barrie, Ont.

London is an ideal 3-0 on the street in exhibition play and heads dwelling to finish their six-game schedule towards Hamilton on Friday evening.

The scoring within the sport began with a giant save by Barrie goaltender Tanner Wickware as he stopped Knights ahead Liam Gilmartin short-handed and in tight and that despatched the push the opposite means, the place Jacob Frasca of the Colts skated into the Knights zone and snapped a puck previous Matt Onuska to make it 1-0.

London tied the sport lower than 5 minutes later when Abakar Kazbekov deflected a puck into the Barrie finish simply as Max McCue was hitting full pace on the blue line. McCue obtained to the puck forward of everybody else behind the Colts internet and centred it to Nick Yearwood, who banged dwelling his second objective of the pre-season to tie the sport.

Objectives 16 seconds other than Frasca and Ryan Del Monte despatched Barrie in entrance 3-1, however Easton Cowan obtained behind the Barrie defence and lower the result in 3-2 earlier than the opening interval had ended.

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All the second interval scoring belonged to the Knights as Stu Rolofs took a wonderful feed from Denver Barkey and scored his third pre-season objective to tie the sport simply 2:31 in.

Kazbekov despatched Ty Anselmini in alone on the 8:52 mark to place London in entrance 4-3 after which proper off a faceoff on a Knights energy play Kazbekov snapped a puck excessive over the shoulder of Wickware to offer the Knights a two-goal benefit heading into the third.

Like they did within the first interval, Barrie struck twice in fast succession with objectives that got here 38 seconds other than Frasca who accomplished a hat trick, and Oliver Smith who tied the sport 5-5 with simply over six and a half minutes remaining in regulation.

The groups matched one another by means of the primary 5 rounds of the shootout earlier than Crane ended it.

Matt Onuska picked up the win in objective for London stopping 23 of 28 photographs.

Early accidents

Ben Roger and Luke Evangelista have been each harm in coaching camp for the Knights this yr. Roger healed in time to participate in his first NHL camp woth the Ottawa Senators. Evangelista is near returning to sport motion.

Liam Gilmartin was harm at San Jose Sharks camp however was again within the London lineup in Hamilton on Sept. 28. However now two new accidents have popped up. Knights 2020 first spherical decide Ben Bujold has a charley horse after being kneed by Londoner Liam Van Loon within the third interval of the sport towards the Bulldogs. Goaltender Owen Flores was harm taking part in for the London Nationals and can miss the tip of the Knights pre-season schedule.

One away

Tonio Stranges is the ultimate Knights participant nonetheless away at an NHL Coaching camp.

Stranges is a fourth spherical decide of the Dallas Stars relationship again to the 2020 NHL Entry Draft. He suffered what has been known as a shoulder harm whereas taking part in for the Stars within the Traverse Metropolis Rookie Match. He returned to the ice in Dallas on Sept. 30. Stranges performed 9 video games final yr with the Texas Stars of the American Hockey League.

Gerard Keane has been launched from his try-out with the NHL’s Columbus Blue Jackets. Keane was a free agent invite to the Columbus rookie camp and his play there earned him a spot in predominant camp. Keane is nineteen years previous and is among the extra expertise gamers on the Knights roster having appeared in 84 video games from 2018-2020.

Keane was a 3rd spherical decide of the Knights within the 2018 OHL Precedence Choice.

Up subsequent

The Knights will full their pre-season schedule on Friday, Oct. 1 towards the Hamilton Bulldogs. London defeated Hamilton 7-2 on Sept. 28 in a sport that noticed Easton Cowan rating twice and Sean McGurn decide up a objective and two assists. 4500 followers will probably be permitted inside Budweiser Gardens for the sport. Puck drop is simply after 7:30. Protection at http://www.980cfpl.ca will start at 7 pm.

The common season kicks off every week later for the Knights as they host the Owen Sound Assault on Oct. 8.