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SAULT STE. MARIE – Easton Cowan scored two goals to pace the London Knights to a 5-1 win over the Soo Greyhounds at the GFL Memorial Gardens on Wednesday night.
Cowan entered the third period with his consecutive regular-season games point streak in question, but the Toronto Maple Leafs draft choice scored twice to extend it to 47 games. His streak began on Nov. 23 of last season.
Doug Gilmour holds the OHL record, a 55-gamer that spanned from Oct.19,1982, to Feb. 27, 1983.
Cowan scored on a partial breakaway at 1:33 and doubled his goal-scoring account with a second breakaway goal at 7:33. Cowan has nine goals this season.
Justin Cloutier scored the lone goal for the Greyhounds. Charlie Schenkel turned aside 43 saves in the defeat.
Landon Sim, Oliver Bonk and Sam Dickinson also scored for the Knights. The victory extends the club’s winning streak to a season-high seven games. Dickinson leads the Knights in scoring with 19 points (eight goals and 11 assists). The Knights improved to 7-0-0 when leading after two.
Austin Elliott improved his record to 5-0, turning aside 12 shots. Elliott was the goalie of record the last time the teams met, on Nov. 1, the Knights winning 4-3.
London went 2-6 the power play. The Hounds went 0-4 with the man advantage.
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The Soo opened the scoring at 6:07 when Cloutier tipped a pass behind Elliott for his eighth goal of the season. The marker came on the team’s second shot of the period. The locals did not register their first shot on goal until 5:49 of the period.
The Knights tied the game with a power play goal at 15:25 when Sim redirected a Jesse Nurmi pass off the right pad of Schenkel and into the top half of the net for his fifth of the season.
The Knights outshot the Hounds 17-5 in the first period.
London assumed a 2-1 lead with a power-play goal at 4:13 of the second period. Bonk was stationed alone near the left post and tipped the puck over a prone Schenkel for his second of the season.
The Hounds didn’t record their first shot of the second period until 8:20 when Carson Andrew tested Elliott from the slot. The shot advantage favoured the visitors 30-9 with 5:30 remaining in the second period.
The Knights extended the lead to 3-1 at 16:34 when Dickinson’s shot from near the top of the left face-off circle beat a screened Schenkel for his eighth of the season.
The shot totals favoured London 16-4 in the second period and 33-9 after two periods of play.
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Cowan extended the lead to 4-1 with a partial breakaway goal at 1:29 of the third period. The Knights forward beat Schenkel to the far side from the right face-off circle for his 8th goal of the campaign.
Cowan extended the advantage to five at 7:33 with another breakaway goal on Schenkel, this time beating the Soo keeper to the short side for his ninth of the season.
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Reid Thomas, Brodie McConnell-Barker, Justin DeZoete, Brady Smith and Erik Bowness were scratches for the Hounds … Ryder Boulton, Kasper Halttunen, Blake Arrowsmith, Logan Hawery and Liam Spencer were scratches for London … The Hounds parted ways with winger Camerin Cardona. The California resident was a waiver claim on Sept. 20 from the Tri-City Americans of the WHL.
–Gordon Anderson, Sault Star
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