OHL Championship Series Game 2: Gens leave London 0-2
London, Ont. – The Oshawa Generals and London Knights met for Game Two of the OHL Championship Finals at the Budweiser Gardens where London won 9-1. The series now sits at 2-0 for the Knights.
Several Knights with multi-point games including Kasper Halttunen, Denver Barkey, and Easton Cowan.
The scoring opened after the Generals got caught up on their end after a breakout was interrupted and Knights’ Max McCue found Sam O’Reilly in the crease who sent it across to the backdoor to Ruslan Gazizov.
27 seconds into an Oshawa penalty kill, London capitalized when Halttunen sent a wrist shot through traffic to make the score 2-0.
The Knights didn’t let any powerplay time go to waste as with just under three minutes remaining in the first, Easton Cowan was spotted glove-side and rifled it to the mesh.
20 seconds later to wrap up the first frame, Evan Van Gorp got his first of the postseason off of a rebound with the initial shot from Sawyer Boulton for a 4-0 lead.
Halttunen earned number two of the evening after a cross-ice pass came from Henry Brzustewicz to beat Oster and make it 5-0.
The Knights’ advantage continued to climb as Denver Barkey gained his third point of the evening when he beat the Generals’ defence in a foot race and sent it through Oster for a 6-0 lead.
The seventh goal of the game came at 5:08 on the second-period clock as Halttunen scored with a man advantage after the Generals had two in the box for a 5v3.
McCue got the eighth goal after hitting the Michigan over Oster’s shoulder.
A shot from Ben Danford at the point and the Oshawa Generals broke Simpson’s opportunity for a shutout to wrap up the second 8-1.
Noah Bender swapped with Oster to begin the third.
Cowan took a one-timer slapshot on another 5v3 in favour of the Knights which went straight to the back of the Oshawa net for 9-1.
The Generals are back home on Monday, May 13th at the Tribute Communities Centre for Games Three and Four. Grab your tickets here!
