Tag: OHL

Scoreboard, April 22

The Sarnia Sting and London Knights both lost their first games of the OHL playoffs Thursday night. Sarnia lost to Windsor 3-0 and London fell to Kitchener 3-2.

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 […]