KNIGHTS OVER STORM, 7-3
The London Knights beat the Guelph Storm 7-3 on Saturday night in a game that was much closer than the final score suggested.
Robert Thomas scored the first goal of the game as he deflected an Evan Bouchard point shot past Bradley Van Schubert and into the Guelph Storm net to make it 1-0 London at 4:36.
The Knights outshot the Storm 21-7 through the first twenty minutes.
The Storm tied the game on a power play in the second as Jake Bricknell fired a puck into the Knight net at 4:05 and the teams were tied 1-1.
Victor Mete put London back in front with his fifth of the season as he controlled a pinballing puck in the Guelph zone and snapped it stick-side on Van Schubert and the score was 2-1 London.
With 55 seconds to go in the second period, Jacob Harris of the Storm took a hit from Max Jones in the London end and fell straight back, appearing to strike his head on the ice. Harris was placed on a stretcher and taken off the ice. The teams were sent to their dressing room as medical personnel attended to Harris and the final seconds of the second period were pushed to the start of the third.
In those final seconds, Aaron Berisha took a feed from Owen MacDonald and wired a shot high into the Guelph net to put London up 3-2. The goal came with just 4.1 ticks left on the clock.
MacDonald and Berisha combined on a carbon copy of that goal just 40 seconds into the third period as Berisha converted another MacDonald pass for his 23rd goal of the season, putting London ahead by two.
James McEwan tightened the score again as he stole a puck short-handed at his own blue line, skated to the Knights blue line, lost the puck and then got it back again and went in and scored to make it 4-3.
On that same London power play, Mete skated the puck across the Guelph line and found Christian Dvorak, who skated into the slot and scored to extend his point streak to 19 games.
Dvorak then fed Marner for an empty netter to make it 6-3 and then Sam Miletic scored 21 seconds after that to make the game look like much more of a blow-out than it actually was.
The point streaks stayed alive for both Dvorak (19 games) and Marner (21 games).
The Knights will head to Guelph on Wednesday to play their sixth and final regular season game against the Storm. Broadcast time on NewsTalk 1290 is 6:30.
