Read Records First Career Hat-Trick to Push Knights in to Second Round
London Knights rookie Noah Read scored three times and added an assist to lead the Knights to an 8-4 victory and a first round sweep of the Owen Sound Attack on April 3, 2025 at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre.
Read was also a plus-4.
Denver Barkey moved into a tie for the OHL playoff scoring lead with his fifth goal and 11th point in four games. Barkey would later take the scoring lead with an assist.
The London captain got to a loose puck off the faceoff in the Attack end, got to the slot, spun and rifled a shot past Owen Sound goalie Carter George at 6:36 of the first period to make it 1-0 for the Knights.
Masen Wray tied the game for the Attack at 12:22 of the opening period when he slammed home a shot on a two-on-one.
That tie lasted 14 seconds.
Off a faceoff in the Owen Sound zone London defenceman Cam Allen grabbed a puck and showed off a head-fake that shook him free for a skate right to the net where Allen ripped a wrist shot into the back of the Attack net and the Knights led 2-1 going into the first intermission.
Kasper Halttunen showed off the shot that saw him recognized as having the hardest shot and best shot in the Western Conference Coaches Poll to get the first goal of the second period as he wired a wrister from the slot to put London ahead 3-1.
Noah Read took a pass from Sam Dickinson, went to the net and scored his first of the playoffs at 10:02 and that goal seemed to hit some kind of turbo boost for the Knights.
Fifteen seconds later, Denver Barkey fed Easton Cowan and it was 5-1 for London.
The Knights kept up some relentless pressure and scored again when Dickinson’s snap shot found the back of the Attack net at 12:52.
Wray got one of those goals back at 18:15 on a power play but less than one minute after that Blake Montgomery found Read for his second goal of the period and London led 7-2 through two periods.
The Knights continued to roll through the third period, completing the sweep and advancing to the next round.
