Cohen Bidgood scored twice and added an assist as the London Knights doubled up the Sudbury Wolves 4-2 on Feb. 22 at Canada Life Place.

Bidgood now has four goals and three assists in his past three games.

The Knights roared out to a 4-0 lead through 20 minutes as Bidgood scored twice and helped to set up another.

The first was set up by Will Nicholl and the second came off of a steal on the right side of the Wolves zone.

Jaxson Cover then fed Nicholl 26 seconds later to make it 3-0 Knights.

Cover had two assists in the opening 20 minutes and also chased down Chase Coughlin of Sudbury to deny a breakaway and drew a penalty at the other end of the ice on the same shift.

On that power play Bidgood got the puck on goal and Braiden Clark hammered home a rebound for his 14th goal of the year with just eight seconds showing on the clock and London led 4-0 heading to the dressing room.

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Sudbury’s 2025 first-round pick Brayden Bennett scored the only goal of the second period as he deflected a Genc Ula shot into the Knight net at 13:49.

In the third period, Wolves defenceman Artem Gonchar snapped a shot through traffic from the middle of the blue line with 4:21 remaining to tighten the score to 4-2.

London held on from there and moved to within three points of Sault Ste. Marie for fourth place in the Western Conference. Each team now has 11 games remaining in the regular season.

The Knights outshot the Wolves 38-28.

Seb Gatto made 26 saves for his 17th win of the year for London.

The Knights were 1-for-3 on the power play and 4-for-4 on the penalty kill.

The downs and ups of Oliver Bonk and Landon Sim

Former Knights defenceman Oliver Bonk was recalled from the American Hockey League’s Lehigh Valley Phantoms for a day. Bonk practiced with the NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers and was then reassigned to Lehigh Valley indicating he could be close to seeing some time in the big league. If and when Bonk debuts he would join Flyers teammate Denver Barkey and Easton Cowan and Sam Dickinson as the fourth player from the 2025 Memorial Cup Championship team to already make their NHL debut.

Former Knight forward Landon Sim is back with the Toronto Marlies. Sim missed time with a lower body injury early this year and had been sent to Cincinnati of the ECHL where he played 18 games. Sim scored one of the most memorable goals in London’s championship run last season when he knocked a rebound out of the air and in against the Oshawa Generals to score the insurance goal in the J. Ross Robertson Cup clinching Game 5 of the OHL Championship Series.

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The Knights will finish their six-game home stand when they host the Windsor Spitfires at Canada Life Place on Friday, Feb. 27 at 7 p.m.

Windsor has the upper hand in the six-game season series having won two of the three games played so far but London won the most recent game when Andoni Fimis scored in overtime at the WFCU Centre on Dec. 6.

Coverage will begin at 6:30 p.m., on 980 CFPL, at and on the iHeart Radio and Radioplayer Canada apps.

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Joe Salandra scored two third period goals for the Barrie Colts to put the game away, as Barrie defeated the London Knights 5-1 on Feb. 20 at Canada Life Place on Don Brankley London Knights Hall of Fame night.

Rocky Farr, Jim Sandlak and Brandon Prust were all officially inducted earlier in the day and honoured before puck drop with a ceremony at centre ice.

Henry Brzustewicz sent a beautiful pass up the right win side of the ice to Brody Cook. Cook went hard to the net and scored his fifth goal of the year, giving the Knights a 1-0 lead just 3:05 into the first period.

Barrie tied the game at 11:31 on a goal by Nick Desiderio and then went ahead 2-1 just 1:16 later when Calvin Crombie tipped in a pass from Carter Lowe.

Before the end of the opening period the Colts increased their lead to 3-1 as Lowe snagged a puck inside the Barrie blue line and fed it ahead to Dallas Stars prospect Brad Gardiner who scored on a short-handed breakaway.

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London held Barrie to just three shots in the second period and went to the power play on four different occasions. However, they could not sold Arvin Jaswal and the game headed into the final 20 minutes with Barrie still ahead by two.

The Knights kept the pressure up to begin the third period. However, they ould not find a hole in Jaswal and Joe Salandra took advantage of a puck that was chipped out of the Colts zone as he caught up to it and went in alone to score, making it 4-1 Barrie with under nine minutes remaining in the game.

Salandra added a second goal with 2:57 to go in the game to finish the scoring at 5-1.

The Colts outshot London 24-20.

The Knights were 0-for-6 on the power play.

Barrie was 0-for-2 on the man advantage.

The Colts are now 20-1-1 in their last 22 games and have won nine straight games.

‘Use your backhand’

Former London Knight Mitch Marner was instrumental in helping Team Canada make to to Sunday’s gold medal game in Men’s Hockey at the Winter Games in Italy.

Marner scored the overtime winner over Czechia in the quarterfinals to send Canada to the semis where they defeated Finland 3-2 to advance to the final.

Mitch Marner’s father Paul admitted that Mitch’s skating coach dating back to when he was a young kid has been telling Mitch how great his backhand is and to use it. It produced one of the most memorable goals for Canada at the tournament.

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London will continue their six-game home stand with a game against the Sudbury Wolves on Sunday, Feb. 22 at 2 p.m., at Canada Life Place.

Sudbury defeated the Knights 6-3 on Nov. 21 in the only other meeting between the clubs.

Coverage of London and Owen Sound will begin at 1:30 p.m., on 980 CFPL, at www.980cfpl.ca and on the iHeart Radio and Radioplayer Canada apps.

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Cohen Bidgood scored twice and added two assists for a career-high four points in a 6-1 London Knights victory over the Owen Sound Attack on Family Day at Canada Life Place.

The win clinched a playoff spot for London for the 24th consecutive season, dating back to the first year that Mark and Dale Hunter took over ownership of the Knights franchise in the 2000-01 Ontario Hockey League season.

Will Nicholl and Jesse Nurmi each had a goal and an assist and Nurmi and Ryan Brown added to their point streaks.

London scored three times in the opening period. Jaxon Cover and Braidy Wassilyn each got their 17th on the season. Nicholl assisted on Cover’s goal and then scored one of his own with just 1:01 remaining on the clock as a Henry Brzustewicz shot ricocheted off the end glass and dropped down in front of the Attack net.

Nicholl fired the puck home for his eighth goal in 20 games. Nurmi picked up an assist on the play to extend his point streak to 11 games.

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Cover set up Bidgood at 2:45 of the second period to push the Knights’ lead to 4-0.

Tristan Delisle got Owen Sound on the board with a power-play goal at 18:53 of the middle period, set up by Toronto Maple Leafs prospect Harry Nansi.

Nansi had briefly left the game after taking a huge open-ice hit from Maksim Sokolovskii of London. Nansi bobbled the puck coming through centre and didn’t see Sokolovskii coming.

London tacked on a power-play goal from Nurmi at 3:49 and during the celebration, Attack defenceman Noah Roberts slashed Bidgood and was assessed a minor penalty.

Bidgood scored one second after the man advantage ended to make it 6-1 for the Knights.

Cole Zurawski scored off a faceoff on a late Attack man advantage.

The Knights outshot Owen Sound 37-30.

London was 1-for-4 on the power play. The Attack were 2-for-4.

The streaks of Brown and Nurmi

The Flint Firebirds’ Alex Kostov and Owen Sound’s Tristan Delisle have posted the longest scoring streaks during the 2025-26 season.

Each player went 18 games. Kostov recorded 12 goals and 30 points. Delisle put up 12 goals and 27 assists.

The longest current streaks belong to a pair of Knights.

Brown has gone 13 consecutive games and has 11 goals and 23 points.

Nurmi’s streak is now at 11 games and he has 10 goals and 23 points during that stretch.

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London will host the Barrie Colts on Friday at 7 p.m. at Canada Life Place.

The game will feature the induction ceremony for the Don Brankley London Knights Hall of Fame as Rocky Farr, Jim Sandlak and Brandon Prust are enshrined as the class of 2026.

Coverage of the game will begin at 6:30 p.m. on 980 CFPL, at www.980cfpl.ca and on the iHeart Radio and Radioplayer Canada apps.

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Henry Brzustewicz scored a goal, added two assists and then scored the shootout winner for the London Knights as they edged the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds 4-3 on Friday, Feb. 13, at Canada Life Place.

The victory moved London to within two points of Sault Ste. Marie for home ice advantage in what could easily be a first-round matchup between the two teams.

The Knights have 14 games remaining on their schedule.

The Greyhounds have 15 left.

Veteran forward Justin Cloutier created the first goal of the game as he worked his way back to the middle of the London blue line and then flung a puck toward the net, which Pittsburgh Penguins prospect Travis Hayes tipped in to make it 1-0 Sault Ste. Marie at the 9:41 mark of the opening period.

Jaxon Cover tied the game with his 16th goal of the season on his 18th birthday as he hammered home a Jesse Nurmi pass on a 5-on-3 power play for the Knights at 18:08.

The assist extended Nurmi’s point streak to 10 games.

Brzustewicz was also in on the play. Brzustewicz has points in 12 of his past 13 games.

Another 5-on-3 power play for London produced the go-ahead goal by Brzustewicz at 6:10 of the second period as the L.A. Kings first rounder notched his 16th of the year.

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Ryan Brown assisted on the goal to extend his point streak to 11 games. Brown has the longest active point streak in the OHL at the moment.

Before the end of the middle period, Brzustewicz had his third point of the game as he and Cover combined to get the puck to Caleb Mitchell and his wrist shot beat Carter George at 13:59. With that, it was 3-1 for the Knights heading into the final 20 minutes.

The Greyhounds closed the gap to 3-2 just over seven minutes into the third period as a high flip was knocked out of the air by a Sault Ste. Marie stick. However, it hit a London player and went right to Jeremy Martin and Martin scored.

Martin scored again a little more than five minutes later on a Greyhounds man advantage to tie the game 3-3 and it eventually went to overtime.

Those five minutes produced four Knights shots and 2 Sault Ste. Marie shots but no goals.

That set the stage for two big saves from Seb Gatto and London goals by Brown and Brzustewicz in the shootout.

Will Nicholl of the Knights was 25-for-33 in faceoffs on the night.

London won three of the four games between the teams this year. Two of those victories came in shootouts.

The Greyhounds outshot the Knights 38-37.

London was 2-for-7 on the power play and 3-for-4 on the penalty kill.

Londoners and London Knights helping to propel Canada at the Olympics

Nick Suzuki and Bo Horvat have scored goals. Mitch Marner has two assists and Drew Doughty has been a rock on defence for Canada’s Men’s Hockey team at the 2026 Winter Games in Italy.

The four players make up just under a fifth of the entire roster that is looking for gold as NHLers return to the Games for the first time since 2014.

Canada is 2-0 so far after wins over Czechia and Switzerland. Canada will face France at 10:40 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 15.

Marner and Horvat both played for the Knights. Horvat is also from Rodney, Ont., while Suzuki and Doughty are from London. Doughty and Sidney Crosby are each trying to win their third Olympic Gold medal.

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The Knights will host the Owen Sound Attack on Family Day afternoon at 2 p.m., at Canada Life Place.

All 20 teams in the Ontario Hockey League are in action that day and nine of the ten games will begin at 2 p.m.

Coverage of London and Owen Sound will begin at 1:30 p.m., on 980 CCFPL, at www.980cfpl.ca and on the iHeart Radio and Radioplayer Canada apps.

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Sam O’Reilly scored his 20th and 21st goals of the season and added an assist as the Kitchener Rangers defeated the London Knights 5-2 at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium on Feb. 10

The Knights former captain matched his three-point output from six days earlier when he and Jared Woolley made their returns to Canada Life Place.

O’Reilly was named the game’s first star.

Gabe Chiarot of the Rangers scored the only goal of the first period on a play that started behind the net, as Dylan Edwards got his stick on a puck and put it out front to Chiarot and the Vancouver Canucks prospect managed to find a hole in Seb Gatto at 19:19.

Gatto stopped 18 of the 19 shots he faced in the opening 20 minutes.

Jesse Nurmi of the Knights tied the game just 47 seconds into the second period as he batted a deflected puck out of the air and in on a pass from Evan van Gorp. The play was reviewed for several minutes but it was called a good goal, giving Nurmi his ninth goal in seven games for London.

Nurmi helped to set up Will Nicholl on a Knights power play at 6:35 of the second period to give London a 2-1 lead before Kitchener came charging back.

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Dylan Edwards scored his 30th goal of the season from in front of the Knight net at 9:56. Then, just over one minute later, Christian Humphreys of the Rangers slapped in his 20th goal of the year to put Kitchener ahead 3-2.

Before the middle period ended, former London captain O’Reilly hit the 20-goal mark as he raced down the ice short-handed and snapped in a goal reminiscent of the one that ended a game between the Knights and the Rangers six days earlier and Kitchener led by a pair through 40 minutes.

O’Reilly scored the only goal of the third period into an empty net to finish the scoring.

The Rangers outshot London 39-23.

The Knights were 1-for-2 on the power play.

Kitchener was 1-for-4.

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Canadian Hockey League names Top 50 of last 50 years

Four London Knights have been named to the CHL’s Top 50 players of the last 50 years.

London led all other Canadian Hockey League teams, as Brendan Shanahan, Corey Perry, Patrick Kane and John Tavares were each included by the selection panel.

Two other area players in Drew Doughty of London and Joe Thornton of St. Thomas also made the Top 50.

Doughty played for the OHL’s Guelph Storm. Thornton was a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds.

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The Knights will host the Storm on Feb. 11 on Sam Dickinson Bobblehead night.

Of the 16 games remaining on London’s schedule, four of the games will be against the Storm.

The Knights are 2-0 against Guelph so far but have not seen them since Nov. 5, 2025.

Coverage starts at 6 p.m. on 980 CFPL, at www.980cfpl.ca and on the iHeart Radio and Radioplayer Canada apps.

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