Marco Mignosa scored twice and logged two assists as the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds defeated the London Knights 4-0 to win their first round playoff series on Saturday at Canada Life Place.

Carter George made 25 saves in goal for Sault Ste. Marie for his first career playoff shutout.

The Greyhounds got off a quick start as an icing call brought a faceoff into the London end. Brady Martin found Marco Mignosa, who fired home his third goal of the series at the 2:14 mark of the first period.

Chase Reid made it 2-0 for Sault Ste. Marie with his second goal of the playoffs, which came one second after a Greyhound power play ended.

The Knights pressed hard in the second period but could not find a hole in Sault Ste. Marie’s netminder.

At the other end of the ice, Brady Martin found Marco Mignosa for a second time, leading to Mignosa’s second goal of the night, which put the Greyhounds ahead 3-0 after 40 minutes of play.

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Brady Martin scored on a third period power play for Sault Ste. Marie to finish the scoring as Mignosa picked up his fourth point of the night.

The Greyhounds outshot the Knights 27-25.

London was 0-for-6 on the power play and 5-for-6 on the penalty kill.

The loss ended the careers of overagers Jesse Nurmi, Braiden Clark and Kaden Hawkins.

Clark missed the game with an upper body injury, as did Knights defenceman Linus Funck.

London goaltender Seb Gatto did not dress due to a lower body injury.

Will Nicholl signs entry-level deal with Edmonton Oilers

The Edmonton Oilers selected Will Nicholl of the London Knights in the seventh round of the 2024 NHL Entry Draft.

Nicholl was selected 196th overall that year. The majority of players  drafted ahead of him — 118 in total —have yet to sign their first deal.

Nicholl is a two-time Ontario Hockey League champion and a Memorial Cup champion. If there was an award for most positive player in hockey you would see Nicholl as a nominee, too.

He was honoured at this season’s London Knights awards ceremony as the 2025-26 Player’s Player, which is chosen by a player’s teammates.

Nicholl missed 36 games this year while recovering from off-season surgery but still managed to score 15 goals and 26 points.

Nicholl will be eligible to join the American Hockey League’s Bakersfield Condors at the conclusion of his season in London.

The Condors are captained by former Knight Seth Griffith.

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Ryan Brown recorded a hat trick as the London Knights defeated the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds 4-1 to force a fifth game in the Western Conference quarterfinal series.

After back-to-back overtime victories by the Greyhounds gave them a 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven series, London fought their way through the second game in as many days down two veteran players, as Braiden Clark and Linus Funck both missed Game 4 with upper-body injuries.

Quinn McKenzie of Sault Ste. Marie scored the first goal of the game at 6:55 of the opening period as he wrapped the puck around the London net and got it by Aleksei Medvedev.

Medvedev was making his first playoff start after making 36 appearances for the Knights in the regular season.

A big second period from London put them in front 2-1 as they killed off four Greyhound power plays and got goals from Jacob Vandeven and Ryan Brown.

Vandeven came out of the penalty box, took a pass from Will Nicholl and went in on a two-on-one with Nicholl, where Vandeven snapped in his first Ontario Hockey League goal at 6:51.

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Brown scored on a Knights power play at the 13:41 mark as London got the puck to the Sault Ste. Marie net, then batted and whacked away until it popped to Brown at the right post. Brown put the puck in for his first goal of the post-season and a London lead going into the final 20 minutes.

Brown scored on a breakaway at 14:58 of the third period to make it 3-1 thanks to a high flip pass from Caleb Mitchell, then finished the scoring into an empty net with 3:03 to go in the game.

Medvedev made 25 saves for his first playoff win. Will Nicholl had two assists on the night.

Each team finished the game with 26 shots on goal.

The Knights were 1-for-4 on the power play and 6-for-6 on the penalty kill.

London Jr. Knights advance at 2026 OHL Cup

The London Jr. Knights ran into a hot goaltender in their first game at this year’s OHL Cup but quickly rebounded in their round robin and racked up the necessary wins to advance to the quarterfinals on April 2.

Don Mills squeaked out a 2-1 win over London on March 30 but then beat Thunder Bay 10-1, knocked off TPH Academy 6-4 and blasted Barrie 8-1.

The Jr. Knights are coached by former London Knights captain Danny Syvrey and feature top prospects for the 2026 OHL Priority Selection in Drew Bate and Ryan Beaulieu.

Beaulieu’s father, Josh, was also a part of the Team of the Century with Syvrey in 2004-05.

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Game 5 will take place in London at Canada Life Place on Good Friday, April 3, at 7 p.m.

Coverage will start 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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After finishing a regular season that saw them record 40 wins for a league-record 17th time since 2000 the London Knights celebrated the year’s accomplishments by handing out their team awards on Sunday, March 22 at Canada Life Place.

London will face the Soo Greyhounds in Round 1 of the Ontario Hockey League playoffs.

It will be the first time since 2007 that the clubs have met in the post season. That series was a wild one that the Knights took in seven games, led by Patrick Kane and Sam Gagner.

London and Sault Ste. Marie have met just four times in the playoffs in their history and the Knights have won every series.

The full schedule can be found below.

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2025-26 London Knights award winners

Peter Guertin Longshot Award: Sebastian Gatto

Most Improved Player: Andoni Fimis

3 Star Award: Jaxon Cover

Scholastic Player of the Year: Braidy Wassylin

Abakar Kazbekov Hardest Working Player: Evan Van Gorp

Player’s Player: William Nicholl

Fan Favourite: Maksim Sokolovskii

Don Brankley Community Service Award: Rene Van Bommel

Intensity Award: Cohen Bidgood

Rookie of the Year: Jaxon Cover

Sportsmanship and Ability Award: William Nicholl

Best Defensive Forward: Braiden Clark

Best Defenceman: Henry Brzustewicz

Heart Trophy: Jesse Nurmi

Richard Hunter Memorial Award for Leading Scorer: Ryan Brown

MVP: Henry Brzustewicz

First round schedule for London Knights vs Sault Ste. Marie:

Game 1 – Friday, March 27 at London, 7 p.m.
Game 2 – Sunday, March 29 at London, 6 p.m.
Game 3 – Tuesday, March 31 at Sault Ste. Marie, 8:07 p.m.
Game 4 – Wednesday, April 1 at Sault Ste. Marie, 7:07 p.m.
Game 5 – Friday, April 3 at London, 7 p.m.*
Game 6 – Sunday, April 5 at Sault Ste. Marie, 7:07 p.m.*
Game 7 – Tuesday, April 7 at London, 7 p.m.*

*if necessary

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The London Knights will be rooting for the Windsor Spitfires on Sunday, the final day of the OHL’s regular season, after falling just short of a four-goal comeback in Flint at the Dort Financial Center on Saturday.

The Knights will need the Spitfires to beat the Soo Greyhounds  in either regulation time, overtime or a shootout. That would secure home ice advantage for London against Sault Ste. Marie in the first round of the post-season.

In Saturday’s game, London fell behind the Flint Firebirds 4-0, then fought back to make it 4-3 and 5-4 only to have Flint hang on in the end.

The Firebirds came out flying, connecting three times in the opening period on even-strength goals by Ihnat Pazii and Kevin He and a power play goal from Jimmy Lombardi. Flint took that 3-0 lead to the dressing room after 20 minutes.

The Firebirds added to their lead at 7:21 of the second period after surviving a Knights power play that had created chances for London. Lombardi skated down the ice and found Nathan Aspinall in front as the pair connected for a second time, putting Flint up 4-0.

At that point. Aleksei Medvedev entered the game in goal for the London Knights.

The Knights continued to push offensively and were rewarded on another man advantage when Henry Brzustewicz wristed in his 19th goal of the year at the 13:59 mark of the second period. With no goals in the remaining six minutes, the score stood at 4-1 heading into the third period.

Will Nicholl scored his second goal in as many games to cut the deficit to two goals when he fired home a Linus Funck rebound at 5:17.

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Knights forward Braidy Wassilyn got London to within one when he roofed a backhand over Mason Vaccari with 10:02 remaining at 4-3.

The Firebirds stretched their lead to a pair once again when Kevin He got behind the London defence. He scored and gave Flint a 5-3 advantage with 5:36 to go in the game.

The Knights made it interesting once again as Andoni Fimis sent a puck through a maze of players and into the Firebirds net with 3:21 left on the clock but that’s as close as London would get.

London forward Jesse Nurmi left the game in the first period and did not return.

The Firebirds outshot the Knights 24-21.

Knights hit 40 wins again

There are 68 games in every OHL regular season. To get to 40 wins, you have to win nearly 60 per cent of the time.

The OHL is also a very cyclical league. A player will usually play three or four years. Consistency is a challenge, yet consistency has been a trademark of the Knights since Mark and Dale Hunter took ownership in 2000.

Here are the number of 40-win seasons by each OHL team and franchise since 2000:

17: London Knights

13: Barrie Colts

11: Kitchener Rangers

8: Ottawa 67’s, Windsor Spitfires

7: Erie Otters, Flint/Plymouth, Soo Greyhounds, Oshawa Gereals

6: Brantford/Hamilton/Belleville

5: Saginaw/North Bay, Guelph Storm, Niagara/Mississauga IceDogs, North Bay/Brampton

4: Sarnia Sting

3: Owen Sound Attack

2: Mississauga/St. Mike’s, Peterborough Petes

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The London Knights will face the Soo Greyhounds in the first round of the OHL playoffs.

Where the series will begin is still to be decided.

The Greyhounds must beat the Windsor Spitfires in their final regular season game on March 22 in Sault Ste. Marie to clinch home ice against London.

If the Greyhounds lose in regulation or in overtime or a shootout, then the Knights will get home ice advantage in their best-of-7 series.

Here are the two scenarios:

Scenario #1
(4) London Knights vs. (5) Soo Greyhounds
Game 1 – Friday, March 27 at London, 7:00 p.m.
Game 2 – Sunday, March 29 at London, 6:00 p.m.
Game 3 – Tuesday, March 31 at Sault Ste. Marie, 8:07 p.m.
Game 4 – Wednesday, April 1 at Sault Ste. Marie, 7:07 p.m.
Game 5 – Friday, April 3 at London, 7:00 p.m*
Game 6 – Sunday, April 5 at Sault Ste. Marie, 7:07 p.m.*
Game 7 – Tuesday, April 7 at London, 7:00 p.m.*

Scenario #2
(4) Soo Greyhounds vs. (5) London Knights
Game 1 – Thursday, March 26 at Sault Ste. Marie, 7:07 p.m.
Game 2 – Saturday, March 28 at Sault Ste. Marie, 7:07 p.m.
Game 3 – Monday, March 30 at London, 7:00 p.m.
Game 4 – Wednesday, April 1 at London, 7:00 p.m.
Game 5 – Friday, April 3 at Sault Ste. Marie, 7:07 p.m.*
Game 6 – Sunday, April 5 at London, 6:00 p.m.*
Game 7 – Tuesday, April 7 at Sault Ste. Marie, 7:07 p.m.*

London season ticket holders have until Monday, March 23 at 3 p.m., to purchase their playoff tickets.

Game coverage can be heard on 980 CFPL, http://www.980cfpl.ca and on the iHeart Radio and Radioplayer Canada apps.

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Seb Gatto’s blocker save on Cole Davis of the Windsor Spitfires sealed a 3-2 shootout victory for the London Knights on Friday at Canada Life Place.

Gatto made 40 saves through 65 minutes of regulation and overtime and three more in the shootout. And all of them allowed London to hang on to fourth place in the Western Conference standings, one point ahead of Sault Ste. Marie, who defeated the Saginaw Spirit 5-1.

Both the Knights and Greyhounds have one game remaining in the regular season.

London needs one point in Flint on Saturday to clinch home ice advantage against Sault Ste. Marie in their first round series.

The first goal of Friday’s game did not happen until the second period but it was worth the wait.

Jaxon Cover and Kaeden Hawkins combined on a three-way passing play to find Maks Sokolovskii  in the slot, and Sokolovskii scored his second career OHL goal and his second goal in three games.

Both of Solokolvskii’s goals have come on Windsor goalie Joey Costanzo.

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The Knights went ahead 2-0 at the 12;59 mark in the second on a wild rush by Will Nicholl as the Edmonton Oilers prospect sped through centre ice, cut wide to the right and then went hard to the net. Nicholl’s first try was denied by Costanzo but it produced a scrum in front of the Spitfires crease. Nicholl found the puck and whacked it home for his 14th goal of the season.

Windsor cut into that lead on a power play goal by Jack Nesbitt that came with 1:34 remaining in the middle period and the teams went into the final 20 minutes with London ahead 2-1.

As the time ticked down under two minutes, the Spitfires pulled Costanzo and got a bounce as a Liam Greentree pass hit a stick and came right back to him. The New York Rangers prospect tied the game with 1:29 to go.

Windsor recorded all three shots in overtime play, but Gatto turned them all aside. The ensuing shootout went five rounds, with Jaxon Cover scoring to put the Knights in front. Gatto made the final save.

The Spitfires outshot London 42-28.

The Knights were 0-for-1 on the power play.

Windsor went 1-for-2 on the man advantage.

Playoff series nearly set

Heading into the final two days of the OHL’s regular season, every series is set in the Eastern Conference. The series between the London Knights and the Soo Greyhounds is the only matchup has been cemented in the Western Conference.

In the East, Brantford will go up against Sudbury, Niagara will take on Barrie, the Ottawa 67’s will face Kingston, and North Bay and Peterborough will go head to head in the 4-5 matchup.

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London will finish their regular season schedule in Flint, Mich., on Saturday, March 21.

The Knights are 1-2 against the Firebirds this year.

Game coverage Saturday will start at 6:30 p.m., on 980 CFPL, and on the iHeart Radio and Radioplayer Canada apps.

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Kaeden Hawkins and Ryan Brown each had three points and Seb Gatto made 28 saves in goal as the London Knights defeated the Guelph Storm 6-2 on March 18 at the Sleeman Centre.

Hawkins and Brown each scored once and added two assists as London clinched the season series between the two clubs, winning four of the six games.

The win, coupled with a 4-3 Saginaw Spirit victory over the Soo Greyhounds on Wednesday, lifted the Knights past Sault Ste. Marie and into fourth place in the Western Conference standings.

London and the Greyhounds each have two games remaining on their schedules.

The teams skated through a scoreless first period where each club had a chance on the power play and matched each other in scoring opportunities without having a puck hit the back of the net.

That all changed for London in the second period, as the Knights broke through and put up four goals.

Hawkins returned to the London lineup against the Storm after missing five games due to injury and he got things started as he sprinted to a loose puck and backhanded it by Zach Jovanovski of the Storm at 7:26.

A tough turnover behind the Guelph net led to Will Nicholl’s 13th goal in his 30th game this year as he put the puck into a completely empty Storm net at 13:33.

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Just over two minutes later, Hawkins made a beautiful drop pass to Andoni Fimis and he made it 3-0 for London and then Brown scored his 22nd of the season right off a faceoff in the Guelph zone with 1:32 remaining in the middle period. The score sat 4-0 for the Knights through 40 minutes.

The Storm hit the scoreboard 19 seconds into the third period on a wraparound goal by Ilya Shybinsky, but Jaxon Cover’s power play goal at 10:42 gave Cover 20 goals on the season and restored London’s four-goal advantage.

Jesse Nurmi slid a puck to Rene Van Bommel for Van Bommel’s 10th goal of the year at 13:18.

Shybinskyi finished out the scoring at 6-2 just one minute and six seconds later with his ninth power play goal of the season.

The Storm outshot the Knights 30-22 as Seb Gatto earned his 23rd victory of the season.

London was 1-for-3 on the power play.

The Storm were 1-for-4 on the man advantage.

Four Knights prospects named to GOHL All-Rookie team

Four members of the London Knights 2025 draft class have earned honours as members of the 2025-26 GOHL All-Rookie team.

London’s second round pick Cooper McAslan (London Nationals), third round pick Eloan Le Gallic (St. Thomas), fifth round pick Jake Ritson (Strathroy) and 14th round pick Michael Pope (Caledon) were named to the team on March 17.

Pope led Caledon in scoring with 25 goals in a tough year that saw the team win just five games out of 50 in the regular season.

Ritson led the Rockets in scoring with 72 points in 47 games.

Le Gallic tied for second in St. Thomas scoring in the regular season and leads the Stars in scoring through two playoff games with a goal and three assists.

McAslan was eighth in defenceman scoring in the league just behind Nationals teammate Cody Wood, who is also a Knights prospect.

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London will play their final home game of the regular season on Friday, March 20, at Canada Life Place against the Windsor Spitfires.

Windsor is currently battling Flint for first place in the OHL’s West Division and the second overall seed in the Western Conference.

The Spitfires are one point ahead of the Firebirds and both teams have two games remaining.

Game coverage Wednesday will start at 6:30 p.m., on 980 CFPL, www.980cfpl.ca and on the iHeart Radio and Radioplayer Canada apps.

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Andrew Robinson recorded his first Ontario Hockey League hat trick as the Windsor Spitfires downed the London Knights 8-2 at the WFCU Centre on March 15.

Caden Harvey had four assists while Philadelphia Flyers prospect Jack Nesbitt had a goal and two assists in the game for Windsor.

Despite the loss, the Knights remain one point back of the Soo Greyhounds for fourth place in the Western Conference and will have home-ice advantage in the upcoming playoff series between the teams. Each club has three games remaining.

London opened the scoring in Windsor on Braiden Clark’s team-leading 22nd goal of the season. Clark snapped a puck over the glove of Spitfires goaltender Joey Costanzo at 7:07 of the opening period.

Minutes later, Windsor tied the game 1-1 on a goal set up by Nesbitt as he rocketed a pass across to the left side of the Knights’ zone to Robinson who went to the net and scored at the 10:35 mark.

Nesbitt helped to set up Conor Walton in the slot for a go-ahead goal for the Spitfires and then Nesbitt fired in his 19th goal of the year right off a faceoff at 16:44 and Windsor led 3-1 through the first 20 minutes.

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Carson Woodall made it 4-1 for the Spitfires on a one-timer from the right side of the London end at 6:24 of the second period.

Woodall was playing forward for Windsor in the absence of four regular forwards who were all missing due to injury on the Spitfires’ side. Aleksei Medvedev entered the game at that point for the Knights but Windsor kept the momentum going.

Robinson’s second of the game came on a Windsor power play at the 15:33 mark of the second period to give the Spitfires a 5-1 lead.

A puck that was dumped into the London zone went off the skate of Medvedev and into the Knights crease where Beks Makysh poked it across the goal line for short-handed goal and a 6-1 Windsor advantage.

Robinson completed the hat trick with 42 seconds remaining in the middle frame and the Spitfires went into the final 20 minutes up 7-1.

A goal by Alex Pharand on the man advantage gave Windsor their eighth goal on the day and then Max Sokolovskii wristed home his first goal in the OHL to finish the scoring with 1:18 remaining in the game, leading to an 8-2 finish.

The Spitfires outshot London 36-18.

The Knights were 0-for-2 on the power play. Windsor was 2-for-4.

Max Domi plays in 800th game

Max Domi’s last goal as a London Knight was the last goal the team would score in the 2014-15 season. It came on April 14, 2015.

From then until now Domi has now played 800 games in the National Hockey League. He celebrated his 800th game in Buffalo with a goal on Saturday.

Domi helped the Knights to win back-to-back OHL championships in 2012 and 2013 and appeared in three consecutive Memorial Cup tournaments in his time in London.

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The Knights will visit the Guelph Storm for game 66 of 68 of their season on Wednesday, March 18 at 6:30 p.m.

London has won three of the five games they have played against the Storm this season, including the last two.

Both Brody Cook of London and Quinn Beauchesne of Guelph are expected to miss the game after receiving indefinite suspensions in the game on March 13. Cook was give a five-minute major and game misconduct for a hit on former Knight Noah Jenken. Jenken left the game and did not return. Beauchesne was given a match penalty for a slash to the head of Ryan Brown of London. Brown says that the stick struck his ear.

Game coverage Wednesday will start at 6 p.m., on 980 CFPL, and on the iHeart Radio and Radioplayer Canada apps.

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Braidy Wassilyn’s goal just 1:06 into third period stood up as the game winner as the London Knights held off the Guelph Storm 4-3 on Friday, March 13, at Canada Life Place.

Jesse Nurmi returned to the lineup from illness and had a pair of assists in the victory that pulled the Knights to within a single point of the Soo Greyhounds for fourth place in the Western Conference and home ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs.

Both London and the Greyhounds have four games remaining and it is now guaranteed that they will be first round opponents.

There are good starts to a game and then there is what the Knights had going through the first five minutes and 42 seconds of the first period.

The score was 3-0 for London and shots on goal were 12-0.

Evan Van Gorp finished off a five-shot barrage with his fourth goal in five games just 2:50 into the game.

The goal was challenged by the Storm for offside, but after review it stood and the miss on the challenge landed Guelph in the penalty box with a bench minor for delay of game.

Just 24 seconds into the power play, Jesse Nurmi fed Will Nicholl for his 12th of the year to make it 2-0.

On another Knight man advantage, Henry Brzustewicz scored his 17th goal of the season and it was 3-0 for London.

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That goal ended the night for Storm goaltender Zach Jovanovski as he was replaced by Colin Ellsworth.

Shortly after, a hit by London’s Brody Cook on former Knight Noah Jenken resulted in a five-minute major and a game misconduct for Cook for kneeing and a leg injury to Jenken that saw him leave and not return.

Guelph scored on the ensuing power play when Carter Stevens tipped in a Jakko Wycisk shot past Seb Gatto and the game went to the intermission with London ahead 3-1.

The goaltenders became the story of the second period as they stopped a combined 27 shots through the first 19 minutes and 46.1 seconds.

That’s when Ethan Miedema chased down a puck and scored with just 13.9 seconds to shrink the Knights lead to 3-2 heading to the final 20 minutes.

Ryan Brown of the Knights forced a turnover a little over one minute into the third period and Braidy Wassilyn buried a shot from the slot for his 18th goal of the year to stretch the score back to a two-goal advantage.

A turnover behind the London net with 4:10 remaining gave Layne Gallacher of the Storm an empty net to shoot at and he tightened the gap to a goal at 4-3.

Guelph defenceman Quinn Beauchesne received a match penalty for slashing Brown of the Knights at 17:04.

Brown was able to stay in the game and London held on for their third win of the season over the Storm.

The Knights outshot Guelph 37-25.

London was 2-for-5 on the power play.

The Storm went 1-for-3.

No OHL team will reach 50 wins in 2025-26

The math won’t allow it. For the first time in 13 seasons, no Ontario Hockey League team will finish the year with 50 victories.

Even the 2019-20 season that was ended early due to the start of the pandemic had a 50-win team.

During the 12 straight seasons that have had a 50-win club the London Knights have hit the 50-mark four times, Erie has hit it four times and Ottawa has done it three times.

In 2025-26 Brantford and Kitchener can each reach 49 which incidentally was the high mark the last time 50 was not hit – when the Knights had 49 in 2011-12.

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London will head to Windsor to meet the Spitfires for the fifth time this year at 4 p.m., on Sunday, March 15.

The Knights won their last visit to the WFCU Centre in overtime on a game-winning goal by Andoni Fimis on

Windsor won the last game between the teams when they downed the Knights 6-1 0n Feb. 27 at Canada Life Place.

Coverage will begin at 3:30 p.m., on 980 CFPL, at www.980cfpl.ca and on the iHeart Radio and Radioplayer Canada apps.

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Braiden Clark and Cohen Bidgood each recorded hat tricks as the London Knights defeated the Erie Otters 10-2 on March 6 at Canada Life Place in the first of back-to-back games between the teams.

Henry Brzustewicz had four assists for the Knights and Braidy Wassilyn had three.

London had two goals before the Erie Otters had recorded their first shot of the game.

Cohen Bidgood and Braiden Clark scored 27 seconds apart at 13:55 and 14:22 of the opening period.

Knights goaltender Seb Gatto was not called on to make his first save until the 15:10 mark and that was the only save Gatto had to make in the first 20 minutes.

Ryan Brown scored his second goal in two games and 21st of the year with 1:03 remaining on the clock and London took a 3-0 lead to the dressing room.

Bidgood’s second of the game came on a power play at 1:30 of the second period and was followed by Evan Van Gorp’s third goal in three games at the 8:00 mark, extending the Knights lead to 5-0.

Tyler Cooper of the Otters managed to steal a puck deep in the London end and scored for the Otters at 11:26. However, that goal seemed to spark London as Jaxon Cover fed Bidgood to complete his hat trick and Braiden Clark wired in his 19th goal of the season.

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The Knights led 7-1 through two periods and had held Erie to only seven shots to that point in the game.

London added three more goals in the third period as Clark completed his hat trick on a breakaway and Brody Cook scored short-handed on another breakaway.

Evan Headrick of the Otters scored a power play goal at 9:07 of the third period and Max Crete finished the scoring and brought the Knights to double-digits for the second time in 2025-26.

Alex Campeau and Cooper McAslan each earned their first OHL points with assists in the game.

The pair was taken in the first and second rounds respectively in the 2025 OHL Priority Selection.

Sixteen of the 18 London skaters recorded at least one point.

The Knights were 1-for-3 on the power play.

Erie was 1-for-1 on the man advantage.

London outshot the Otters 37-18.

Movement at the NHL trade deadline

Several former London Knights changed teams at this year’s NHL trade deadline.

After Michael McCarron went from Nashville to Minnesota and Olli Maatta ended up in Calgary after a deal between the Flames and the Utah Mammoth on March 4 and 5, respectively, more ex-Knights were given new addresses.

In a stunner, John Carlson went to bed as a member of the Washington Capitals and woke up on the Anaheim Ducks.

Jackson Edward was traded from Boston to the Philadelphia Flyers. Londoner Brett Harrison also went to Philadelphia in that deal.

Corey Perry also went back to the Tampa Bay Lightning from the L.A. Kings. Perry went to the Stanley Cup final with the Lightning in 2022.

Nazem Kadri won the Stanley Cup with Colorado that year and Kadri was traded back to the Avalanche right before the deadline arrived.

Up next

The Knights and Otters will meet again on March 7 in the second of their home-and-home series in a game that will complete their season series against one another.

Coverage will start at 6:30 on 980 CFPL, at www.980cfpl.ca and on the iHeart Radio and Radioplayer Canada apps.

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Jaxon Cover and Ryan Brown each scored once and assisted on two others as the London Knights defeated the Guelph Storm 5-2 on Farmer’s Night at Canada Life Place on March 4.

The win secured at least fifth place for London in the Western Conference as it guaranteed the Knights could not be caught by Guelph.

London sits three points back of the Soo Greyhounds for fourth place. The Greyhounds have one game in hand on the Knights.

Braiden Clark and Henry Brzustewicz each had a goal and an assist for London.

After an early surge from Guelph, the Knights turned an offensive zone faceoff into the first goal of the game as London centre Braiden Clark got the puck back to Brzustewicz and the third-year defenceman wristed in his 17th goal of the season, making it 1-0 for the Knights at the 4:03 mark.

The period cruised along from there into the final minute when London struck for two more goals.

Evan Van Gorp took a drop pass and made an outstanding move to get to the Guelph net where the Watford, Ont., native scored his second goal in two games for a 2-0 Knights advantage at 19:04 of the opening period.

Cover raced back into the Storm end and found Braiden Clark in front for Clark’s 17th goal of the year with just 12.3 seconds to go and London found themselves ahead 3-0 through 20 minutes.

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Brown hit the 20-goal mark for the Knights when he banged in a rebound at 13:09 of the second period to make it 4-0 for London.

Before the end of the middle period, the Storm hit the scoreboard when Tampa Bay Lightning prospect Grant Spada broke up a two-on-one at one end of the ice, then rocketed the puck off the end boards at the other end of the ice where Guelph rookie Mark Pape batted it in at the side of the Knight net to make it 4-1.

Londoner Parker Snelgrove tightened the score to 4-2 with a hard shot from the right the right side of the London end 7:59 into the third period. However, Cover restored the Knights’ three-goal lead as he hammered in a rebound in front of the Storm net at 12:21.

A late goal by Brzustewicz was negated when a review showed that the puck had been kicked into the Guelph net.

London outshot the Storm 29-26.

Knights goalie Seb Gatto made 24 saves for his 19th victory of the year.

The Knights were 1-for-2 on the power play and 3-for-3 on the penalty kill.

Former Knight Michael McCarron moved to Minnesota

As the National Hockey League trade deadline arrives on March 6, big moves are always anticipated.

Two of the first trades ahead of the deadline involved two of of the biggest players in the league by sheer size as Tyler Myers went from the Vancouver Canucks to the Dallas Stars and former London Knight Michael McCarron was acquired by the Minnesota Wild from the Nashville Predators.

McCarron played for the Knights in 2013-14 and to start 2014-15 and then was traded to Oshawa where McCarron helped the Generals to win the Memorial Cup.

Up next

London will play a home-and-home series with the Erie Otters beginning with a game at Canada Life Place on March 6 at 7 p.m.

The two clubs will meet the next night in Pennsylvania.

The Knights are 3-0-1 against Erie this year.

Coverage will start 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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