Evangelista and Flores shine big in London Knights victory against the Storm – London

In the event you can rating targets at one finish and preserve them out on the different you’ll have a complete lot of enjoyable with the sport of hockey.

The London Knights left the ice with every kind of smiles on Sunday evening after a 4-0 win over the Guelph Storm when Luke Evangelista scored his fiftieth purpose and recorded his one hundredth level. Rookie goalie Owen Flores made 31 saves for his first profession OHL shutout.

Cody Morgan additionally had a pair of targets and an help for London and Oliver bonk chipped in two assists and Brody Crane scored his seventh purpose of the season.

Evangelista 50-goal feat is a uncommon one — achieved by simply 4 different London Knights gamers since 2000.

He took a while to replicate after the sport.

“it’s simply an honour to be in such elite firm,” admitted Evangelista. “I take a look at how far I’ve been in a position to come. I went from scoring zero targets after I was 16 to fifty now. It’s actually cool.”

Flores was additionally in a position to replicate a bit though his look again was days as a substitute of years.

On March 16 the Storm scored 4 targets in regulation towards Flores in a 5-4 shootout loss by the Knights. Flores went to the London Nationals and in every week stopped 95 of 96 photographs for 3 victories and two shutouts in three video games.

“Coming into the sport I knew I wanted an enormous sport after that shootout loss,” mentioned Flores. As the sport went alongside I felt like I had over the previous two shutout wins that I had. I knew that’s how I wanted to really feel. It was nice.”

Flores largest save got here inside the ultimate 5 minutes when he robbed Jakob McRae with a glove cease after the puck was fed out entrance from behind the London internet.

London now leads the Storm by 13 factors for first place within the Midwest Division with 9 video games remaining. The Knights lead Owen Sound by 9 factors however the Assault solely have six video games left to attempt to make up floor.

The 50-goal membership

With the success the London Knights have had and the variety of gamers who’ve starred within the OHL, it is likely to be stunning to listen to that previously 21 seasons, earlier than Luke Evangelista achieved it, simply six different gamers have scored 50 targets in a season sporting a Knights uniform and two of them (John Tavares with Oshawa; Kevin Hancock with Owen Sound) scored an excellent variety of their targets with different groups.

The duo of Rob Schremp and Dave Bolland tied one another with 57 targets apiece in 2005-06. Patrick Kane joined the 60-goal membership with 62 in 2006-07 and Christian Dvorak had 52 when London gained the Memorial Cup in 2015-16.

4 Alliance groups off to OHL Cup

The OHL Cup is again for the primary time since 2019. It brings collectively the highest 20 U16 AAA groups from Ontario and america and 4 space groups have been given spots. The London Jr. Knights, Elgin-Middlesex Chiefs, Huron-Perth Lakers and Brantford 99ers will kick issues off when the match begins on March 20 on the Scotiabank Pond in Toronto, Ont.

Following the OHL Cup, all 4 will return to complete the Alliance playoffs with London squaring off towards Elgin-Middlesex in a single semi-final and the Lakers and 99ers assembly within the different.

Up subsequent

London will kick off a home-and-home with the Firebirds in Flint, Mich., on Wednesday, March 30.

The sport will finish their busiest stretch of the season. It’ll mark their fifteenth sport in 30 days.

Flint has gained two of the three video games the golf equipment have performed this 12 months. They have been really the primary group to beat the Knights this season after London began the 12 months 9-0.

The pre-game present will start at 6:30 on 980 CFPL, at http://www.980cfpl.ca and on the Radioplayer Canada app.