Jesse Nurmi and Easton Cowan each recorded two goals and Kasper Haltunen recorded four assists as the London Knights defeated the Sudbury Wolves 8–1 on January 19 at Canada Life Place.
The victory extended London’s winning streak to five games. They now have at least one point in 11 consecutive games and have extended their lead in the Ontario Hockey League standings to four points.
Cowan finished the day with three points as he assisted on Denver Barkey’s goal in the second period. It extended Cowan’s regular-season point streak to 60 games. The Wolves were the last team to keep Cowan off the scoresheet in a game on November 24, 2023.
Landon Simm scored his first goal of the game and his fourth in three games as he buried an Evan Van Gorp pass on a two-on-one. Sim now has 17 goals on the season.
Knights forward Sam O’Reilly scored his 18th of the year just 2:12 into the second period to make it 2-0 for the Knights. Jared Woolley found O’Reilly with a pass that sent him alone to Dorchester, Ont., native Marcus Vandenberg.
Vandenberg was recalled from the Leamington Flyers of the OJHL after an injury to Sudbury goalie Nate Krawchuk. Prior to this year, Vandenberg played two and a half seasons in the OHL with Sudbury, Niagara and Kitchener.
The Wolves cut London’s lead in half when Rowan Henderson put one past Austin Elliott at 5:35 of the second period. Elliott improved to 18-0-0-0 as a Knights goaltender with the win.
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From there, London broke open the game, scoring four goals before the end of the middle period, two of which were on the power play.
First Cowan found Barkey at the side of the net for a tap-in at 10:45. Cowan then added two goals of his own and Henry Brzustewicz deflected an O’Reilly pass over Vandenberg. The play was reviewed for possible goaltender interference but the goal was allowed and the Knights led 6–1 through 40 minutes.
Jesse Nurmi added two goals in the third period to finish the scoring on the day. The other was founded by Haltunen – the pair won a silver medal together at the World Junior Hockey Championship playing for Finland.
Barkin had a goal and an assist in his past 7 games to give him 21 points.
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Oliver Bonk also had a pair of assists for the Knights.
London beat Sudbury 37-18.
The Knights were 2-for-6 on the power play and 3-for-3 on the penalty kill.
Hancock is still scoring in the ICEHL
In his final season in the Ontario Hockey League, Kevin Hancock scored 52 goals as he split the year between the Owen Sound Attack and London Knights. From there Hancock went straight to the pros with Tucson of the American Hockey League and Rapid City of the ECHL. He spent two seasons in North America before making the jump to Europe where the Mississauga, Ont., native became a star in the International Central European Hockey League (affectionately known as the ICEHL) in Austria. Hancock plays for Villacher SV and is currently second overall in league scoring, just one point behind John Hughes who also played in the OHL with Belleville and Brampton between 2004 and 2008.
Next
The Knights will travel to Kitchener on Jan. 21 to meet the Rangers for just the third time this season.
London have beaten Rangers in the first two matchups but both have been tight.
The Knights won 3-1 in Kitchener in November and then won 3-2 at Canada Life Place on December 15.
The pregame show begins at 6:30 p.m., on 980 CFPL, at 980cfpl.ca and on the iHeart Radio and RadioPlayer Canada apps.
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