Tag: OHL
PYETTE: Was long, COVID-hit season too much for young OHL players?
The Ontario Hockey League, as promised, reached its regular-season finish line. All 20 teams completed their 68-game schedules. But with all the COVID-19 stops and starts and cramming in previously postponed tilts, was it simply too much for young players to handle? You learn to eat, breathe and sleep hockey to succeed at the major […]
Pat Riggin becomes first goalie to join Knights’ hall of fame
Pat Riggin is rooting for a Brett Brochu return. The legendary London Knights goaltender suffered a hamstring injury after the first world junior tournament in 1978 and it cost him the better part of a month. He knows exactly how the current star netminder is feeling as he tries to recover from an ankle problem […]
Luke Evangelista sees good omen in Knights’ playoff opener
Luke Evangelista is a student of Knights history. The London captain knows that each of the four times the franchise won the OHL championship, they knocked out the Kitchener Rangers along the way. “I remember the 2016 Memorial Cup year watching that London-Kitchener series,” said Evangelista, who was 14 and a member of the Oakville […]
Knights’ sights on Midwest title as playoff ‘confidence-builder’
The Knights needed a win over Owen Sound and a Guelph loss to Windsor Friday to cement their 11th OHL Midwest Division title in 18 years. “It shows how they’re such a storied franchise and how good they are every single year,” current London forward Max McCue said. “It will definitely help going into the […]
London Knights look to get back on winning track as playoffs loom
The Knights are dragging to the finish line. They just lost to last-place Saginaw for the first time Wednesday. The Midwest division title is not officially wrapped up yet and the roster remains a revolving door of walking wounded. “We’re on a four-game skid,” London defenceman Gerard Keane said, “and we had chances to win […]