PETERBOROUGH – The London Knights are giving up too many big offensive periods in the OHL final.
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OHL FINALS: 5-3 loss pushes London Knights to brink
“We gave up a couple in the second and they got the lead on us,” London coach Dale Hunter said of Peterborough’s third straight comeback win. “We battled back (on two late power-play goals with the goalie out for an extra attacker) but it wasn’t good enough. We were close but not close enough.”
Hunter pulled starter Zach Bowen after allowing a fourth goal to low-scoring defenceman Donovan McCoy in the third. Owen WIllmore came on in relief but Hunter suggested not to read too much into the move.
The Knights need to return to their stout defensive approach in a hurry. They have allowed 16 goals in the Petes’ three wins and haven’t been able to shift the momentum in time.
“We’re getting away from it right now,” said London co-captain George Diaco, who uncharacteristically has just one assist in the series. “We’re down by a couple here but it doesn’t really matter. It’s a one-game focus at a time, win one and hopefully, get home ice back.”
Is there hope left?
The Knights under the Hunters have already been in every conceivable situation in the league final. They trailed the Barrie Colts by this same 3-1 margin 10 years ago, but then won the final three games and advanced to the Memorial Cup in Saskatoon on Bo Horvat’s buzzer beater in Game 7.
The Petes keep scoring the goals that matter.
“(It’s) been huge for us at crucial times,” said J.R. Avon, who scored twice in the second. “Our firsts have been really slow, in my opinion. A goal early in the second brings us up and changed that game a lot.”
Peterborough is on the verge of the title but isn’t trying to get ahead of itself.
“I thought about (winning it) a lot but one game away doesn’t mean anything,” Avon said. “(The Knights) can do something crazy and come back. We haven’t won anything yet. We have to keep going.”
Neither coach admitted to seeing the incident, but Hunter understood Humphrey’s frustration.
“It’s one of those things,” he shrugged. “He missed it, the ref, that’s all.”
Humphrey, who had two minor penalties in the third before being ejected, and the attendant appeared to make peace by the end of the skater’s stay in the box. The attendant patted him on the back as he left.
The London native went down in a heap and needed to be assessed by Peterborough’s athletic therapist. After an excruciating long delay, Simpson was deemed able to continue and, at no point, was ordered to leave the ice to enter the league’s concussion protocol.
“I asked them straight out and he took a knock and just needs some time to reset,” Petes coach Rob Wilson said. “The refs gave him that time. He’s totally fine.”
Simpson managed to hang in and make 24 third-period saves to give him 50 for the game. He was also outstanding in Game 2 at Budweiser Gardens.
“If he was unable, they wouldn’t play him,” Dale Hunter said. “That’s the rules and he was able to go. He played well after.”
“He stood tall for us all year and he can take knocks,” Wilson said. “He’s not worried about that. He’s going to be fine to take that. You hope the officials see that stuff and they take care of it.
“I never saw the replay. I think it crossed but the ref said it crossed after his whistle.
BUSY WILLMORE: Owen Willmore has served as Knights backup goaltender in the series and finally saw his first action in Game 4. There was a stretch during his Sutherland Cup final run with Jr. B Stratford that he dressed for games in nine of 10 days between the Warriors and Knights. “Great time, but super busy,” the 18-year-old said. “I would be starting in Leamington one night, then in Sarnia with London two nights in a row, then back to Stratford again. I was back and forth. But It’s all just hockey. I wasn’t worried. It was fun.” Willmore won four games with the Knights last year when he filled in while Brett Brochu was out with an ankle injury and has been around the team for the past three years. “Even during the Covid skates,” he said. “It’s a great opportunity and being in the finals is not somewhere I ever thought I would be, so I’m super excited.”
Petes 5, Knights 3
(Petes leads best-of-seven championship series 3-1)
Peterborough goals: J.R. Avon (2), Owen Beck, Donovan McCoy, Avery Hayes
London goals: Easton Cowan, Sam Dickinson, Denver Barkey
Next: Game 5 is Friday, 7:30 p.m. at Budweiser Gardens.
Wednesday
At Peterborough Memorial Centre
Petes 5, Knights 3
First period
1., London, Cowan 8 (unassisted) 1:19
Penalty – Gauvreau, Pbo (cross-checking) 16:52.
Second period
2. Peterborough, Avon 8 (Lockhart) 1:19
3. Peterborough, Beck 8 (Othmann, Stillman) 9:50
4. Peterborough, Avon 9 (Lockhart) 11:01
Penalties – Mailloux, Ldn (cross-checking) 5:54, Lockhart, Pbo (tripping) 7:29.
Third period
5. Peterborough, McCoy 2 (Lefebvre, Robertson) 7:44
7. London, Barkey 10 (Mailloux, Winterton) 16:51
8. Peterborough, Hayes 11 (unassisted) 17:24 (en)
Penalties – Humphrey, Ldn (high-sticking) 5:27, Humphrey, Ldn (slashing), Lockhart, Pbo (diving) 10:32, Mayer, Pbo (slashing) 12:24, Mayer, Pbo (slashing) 15:35, Humphrey, Ldn (10-minute misconduct), Winterton, Ldn, Smith, Pbo (roughing double minor) 18:25.
Shots on goal by
London 14 13 26–53
Peterborough 16 10 8–34
Power plays: Ldn 2-4. Pbo 0-2.
Goalies (shots-saves): Bowen, Ldn (31-27) (L, 4-5), Willmore, Ldn (2-2, 7:44 of third period). Simpson, Pbo (W, 15-6).
Referees – Dave Lewis, Joe Monette. Linesmen – Dustin McCrank, Justin Noble.
Attendance – 4,046.
Three stars: 1. J.R. Avon, Petes; 2. Michael Simpson, Petes; 3. Owen Beck, Petes
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Martin Necas scored a go-ahead goal with 29 seconds left and the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Philadelphia Flyers 6-4 on Tuesday night.
It was the seventh straight win for the Hurricanes, who also got goals from Jack Roslovic, Jordan Martinook, Eric Robinson and Jackson Blake. Seth Jarvis added an empty-net goal in the final seconds.
Necas typically saves his game-winners for overtime, with nine in his career, but he was able to take care of business in regulation with his team-best seventh goal of the season.
Travis Konecny scored two goals and had two assists for the Flyers. Morgan Frost and Owen Tippett also scored for Philadelphia.
Aleksei Kolosov made 28 saves for the Flyers, who trailed 2-1, 3-1 and 4-3 but kept coming back. Carolina’s Pyotr Kochetkov struggled in net allowing four goals on just 16 shots.
Elsewhere in the NHL on Tuesday:
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SABRES 5 SENATORS 1
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Bowen Byram and Tage Thompson scored 16 seconds apart to open the third period, and Buffalo snapped a three-game skid with a win over Ottawa.
Byram scored twice, JJ Peterka had two goals and an assist and Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 37 saves.
Ridly Greig converted his own rebound in cutting Buffalo’s lead to 2-1 with 7:31 left in the second period. Linus Ullmark made 29 saves in dropping to 1-4 in his past five starts.
Buffalo went up 3-1 on Byram’s second goal 21 seconds into the third period. The defenceman’s shot from inside the blue line sneaked through Ullmark, with the puck rolling down the goalie’s pad, dropping into the crease and trickling across the line. Thompson scored when he crashed the net, was knocked over by defender Jake Sanderson and was lying in the crease when Alex Tuch’s shot went in off his shoulder.
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MAPLE LEAFS 4 BRUINS 0
TORONTO (AP) — Anthony Stolarz made 29 saves for his first shutout of the season in Toronto’s 4-0 victory over Boston.
Morgan Rielly had a goal and two assists as Toronto connected three times on the power play. William Nylander and Matthew Knies added a goal and an assist each. Mitch Marner had two assists of his own. Steven Lorentz rounded out the scoring into the empty net.
The Leafs played without captain Auston Matthews, who is listed as day-to-day with an upper-body injury.
Jeremy Swayman made 23 stops for Boston, which was coming off consecutive weekend shutouts of the Philadelphia Flyers and Seattle Kraken.
Toronto’s porous 31st-ranked power play scored for the second time in as many games at 8:44 of the second period when Rielly fired through a screen. Nylander banked in his team-leading 10th goal of the season on another man advantage 1:14 later for a 2-0 lead.
The Bruins entered the game 8-0-0 in the regular season against their Atlantic Division rival dating back to Jan. 14, 2023.
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FLAMES 3 CANADIENS 2 (OT)
MONTREAL (AP) — Matt Coronato scored twice as Calgary came back to defeat Montreal in overtime.
Coronato tied the game with 2:46 remaining in regulation when he cruised into the slot and went off the post and in. He then buried the winning goal seven seconds into the extra period.
Connor Zary also scored for Calgary, which won its second game in seven outings. Dustin Wolf stopped 21 shots.
Joel Armia — with a short-handed goal — and Brendan Gallagher scored for Montreal (4-7-2). Armia also provided an assist, while Sam Montembeault made 32 saves as the Canadiens’ losing streak extended to four games.
Zary opened the scoring with his third 4:20 into the second period when he pounced on a loose puck in the slot and fired a shot past Montembeault.
Gallagher then slipped the puck between Wolf’s pads at 16:23 to level the score with his fifth of the season.
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BLUES 3 LIGHTNING 2
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jordan Kyrou, Alexey Toropchenko and Oskar Sundqvist scored to help St. Louis beat Tampa Bay 3-2.
Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington made 21 saves for his 149th career win moving him past Jake Allen for second place in franchise history, just two wins behind Mike Liut’s 151.
Nick Perbix and Victor Hedman scored, and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 20 saves for the Lightning who have lost three straight games.
Kyrou scored his fourth goal of the season 8:51 into the third period to give St. Louis a 3-1 lead.
Toropchenko scored his first goal of the season with 1:35 remaining in the second period to put St. Louis ahead 2-1 after Sundqvist tied the game with his first of the season 7:47 into the period.
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ISLANDERS 4 PENGUINS 3 (SO)
NEW YORK (AP) — Bo Horvat scored the only goal in a shootout and New York rallied past Pittsburgh 4-3.
New York goalie Ilya Sorokin denied Rickard Rakell, Sidney Crosby and Kris Letang in the shootout and finished with 32 saves. Kyle Palmieri had a goal and an assist for the Islanders, who trailed 3-1 midway through the third period.
Simon Holmstrom and Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored in the third for New York. Horvat had two assists.
Evgeni Malkin had a goal and an assist to lead Pittsburgh. Crosby got his 598th career goal, and Michael Bunting also scored. Rakell added two assists.
Alex Nedeljkovich stopped 23 shots for the Penguins, who have lost seven of nine. They won their previous two following a six-game skid.
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KINGS 5 WILD 1
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Trevor Lewis scored twice, Kevin Fiala added another on the power play and Los Angeles beat Minnesota 5-1.
Warren Foegele and Quinton Byfield also scored for Los Angeles, which was playing the second night of a back-to-back after a 3-0 win in Nashville a night earlier. David Rittich made 23 saves for the Kings.
Fiala, who was traded to Los Angeles in 2022 by Minnesota for a first-round pick draft pick and defenceman Brock Faber, scored his seventh goal of the season. He now has three goals and six assists in his last seven games against the Wild.
Minnesota, which had won three in a row, opened the scoring in the second period on Zach Bogosian’s first goal of the season. Goaltender Filip Gustavsson stopped 23 shots for the Wild.
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JETS 3 UTAH 0
WINNIPEG, Man. (AP) — Nino Niederreiter scored twice in his 900th NHL career game and Connor Hellebuyck made 21 saves to help Winnipeg defeat Utah 3-0.
It was Hellebuyck’s second shutout of the season and 39th of this career.
Gabriel Vilardi also scored for the Jets. Adam Lowry assisted on both goals by Niederreiter.
Utah ended a run of picking up points in three consecutive games (1-0-2).
Karel Vejmelka stopped 25 shots for Utah in its second stop on a four-game road trip.
Jets winger Kyle Connor had his franchise-record, season-opening points streak end at 12 games.
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AVALANCHE 6 KRAKEN 3
DENVER (AP) — Arturri Lehkonen scored the go-ahead goal on a power play in his season debut and Nathan MacKinnon had five assists as Colorado beat Seattle 6-3.
Mikko Rantanen added two goals for the Avalanche, who snapped a three-game losing streak. Ivan Ivan, Nikolai Kovalenko and Chris Wagner also scored for Colorado.
Cale Makar had two assists but the star defenceman barely played in the second half of the game and appeared to be slowed by an apparent injury during a brief shift.
MacKinnon and Makar extended their season-opening point streaks to 13 games.
Lehkonen played for the first time since off-season shoulder surgery.
Jared McCann, Jaden Schwartz and Brandon Montour scored for the Kraken.
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CANUCKS 5 DUCKS 1
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Brock Boeser, Danton Heinen and Kiefer Sherwood had a goal and an assist apiece, and Quinn Hughes recorded his 300th career assist in Vancouver’s victory over Anaheim.
Jake DeBrusk and Elias Pettersson also scored and Hughes had three assists for the Canucks, who have won six of eight. Kevin Lankinen made 21 saves in Vancouver’s sixth consecutive win over the Ducks.
Olen Zellweger scored a power-play goal early in the first period for Anaheim, which has lost seven of nine. Lukas Dostal stopped 31 shots.
Canucks goalie Thatcher Demko took shots from teammates again after the morning skate, and he could return to practice this week. The Southern California native and 2023-24 Vezina Trophy finalist hasn’t played this season due to a knee injury incurred late last season.
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SHARKS 2 BLUE JACKETS 1 (OT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Alex Wennberg scored 3:11 into overtime and San Jose celebrated the return of No. 1 overall draft pick Macklin Celebrini with a win over Columbus.
Defenceman Jack Thompson scored his first career goal for the Sharks (4-8-2), who entered the night with the worst record in the NHL. San Jose has won four of five.
Celebrini, the top pick in the 2024 NHL draft, missed 12 games with a hip injury he sustained in the season opener Oct. 10 — an injury first incurred during the pre-season. Celebrini didn’t score and missed a shot early in overtime.
San Jose goalie Vitek Vanacek was fantastic in net, making 49 saves.
Blue Jackets right wing Kirill Marchenko scored for the second consecutive game. Columbus (5-6-1) has lost three straight.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand’s Erin Routliffe remain undefeated in women’s doubles at the WTA Finals.
The 2023 U.S. Open champions, seeded second at the event, secured a 1-6, 7-6 (1), (11-9) super-tiebreak win over fourth-seeded Italians Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini in round-robin play on Tuesday.
The season-ending tournament features the WTA Tour’s top eight women’s doubles teams.
Dabrowski and Routliffe lost the first set in 22 minutes but levelled the match by breaking Errani’s serve three times in the second, including at 6-5. They clinched victory with Routliffe saving a match point on her serve and Dabrowski ending Errani’s final serve-and-volley attempt.
Dabrowski and Routliffe will next face fifth-seeded Americans Caroline Dolehide and Desirae Krawczyk on Thursday, where a win would secure a spot in the semifinals.
The final is scheduled for Saturday.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published on Nov. 5, 2024.
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EDMONTON – Jake Allen made 31 saves for his second shutout of the season and 26th of his career as the New Jersey Devils closed out their Western Canadian road trip with a 3-0 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Monday.
Jesper Bratt had a goal and an assist and Stefan Noesen and Timo Meier also scored for the Devils (8-5-2) who have won three of their last four on the heels on a four-game losing skid.
The Oilers (6-6-1) had their modest two-game winning streak snapped.
Calvin Pickard made 13 stops between the pipes for Edmonton.
TAKEAWAYS
Devils: In addition to his goal, Bratt picked up his 12th assist of the young season to give him nine points in his last eight games and now 15 points overall. Nico Hischier remains in the team lead, picking up an assist of his own to give him 16 points for the campaign. He has a point in all but four games this season.
Oilers: Forward Leon Draisaitl was held pointless after recording six points in his previous two games and nine points in his previous four. Draisaitl usually has strong showings against the Devils, coming into the contest with an eight-game point streak against New Jersey and 11 goals in 17 games.
KEY MOMENT
New Jersey took a 2-0 lead on the power play with 3:26 remaining in the second period as Hischier made a nice feed into the slot to Bratt, who wired his third of the season past Pickard.
KEY RETURN?
Oilers star forward and captain Connor McDavid took part in the optional morning skate for the Oilers, leading to hopes that he may be back sooner rather than later. McDavid has been expected to be out for two to three weeks with an ankle injury suffered during the first shift of last Monday’s loss in Columbus.
OILERS DEAL FOR D-MAN
The Oilers have acquired defenceman Ronnie Attard from the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for defenceman Ben Gleason.
The 6-foot-3 Attard has spent the past three season in the Flyers organization seeing action in 29 career games. The 25-year-old right-shot defender and Western Michigan University grad was originally selected by Philadelphia in the third round of the 2019 NHL Entry Draft. Attard will report to the Oilers’ AHL affiliate in Bakersfield.
UP NEXT
Devils: Host the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday.
Oilers: Host the Vegas Golden Knights on Wednesday.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 4, 2024.
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