GENERALS OUTLAST KNIGHTS
Goals came in power play propelled bursts in Oshawa on Sunday night as the Generals defeated the London Knights 5-4.
The game saw six goals scored in total on the man advantage. Each team had three.
”The game can really turn one way or the other on power plays,” said Knights’ forward Max Jones. “We scored that way, but you have to be good on the (penalty kill) and at even strength to have that complete game.”
The Generals scored twice on the power play and once at even strength in the first period to erase a 1-0 London lead and lead 3-1 through 20 minutes.
The Knights’ had opened the scoring on Cole Tymkin’s first goal of the season, set up by Robert Thomas and Richard Whittaker, who took a big hit in centre ice to get the puck into the Generals’ zone.
London’s power play turned the game back their way in the second as they scorched the Generals with three goals on the man advantage in a span of just 2:04 after 5-on-4 was turned into a 5-on-3 when Renars Krastenbergs caught Thomas with a high stick and received a double minor.
Thomas went to the bench for a quick repair and then 17 seconds after the puck dropped in the Oshawa end, he cut through the high slot and fired a shot over the shoulder of Generals’ goaltender, Logan Gauthier. That was followed up by bang-bang goals from Jones in just over a minute on a deke and a bullet of a shot that hit the back bar under the crossbar and came right out.
At that point, the Knights had jumped back in front by a goal, 4-3.
London had another power play chance later in the period as Krastenbergs went back to the penalty box, but Oshawa killed it off and a turnover at the Generals’ blue line sprung the Latvian winger as he stepped back on the ice and he flew down the wing and beat Jordan Kooy with a wrist shot to the glove side at 17:09.
Seconds later, London found themselves down one man and then another after back-to-back penalties and Nick Wong struck for the second time in the game, netting what stood up as the game-winner…
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