As promised, I will recap that Knights game vs the Niagara IceDogs now. It happened on Friday in London at the John Labatt Centre where the Knights were victorious in a shootout, 2-1. Niagara's regulation goal came first in the 2nd period courtesy of Freddie Hamilton. Dougie Hamilton and Alex Friesen received the assists. London's goal came in the 3rd period from Vladislav Namestnikov with assists by Seth Griffith and Stephen Sanza. This made it 1-1 after the regulation 3 periods. Overtime solved nothing, so we went to a shootout. In that shootout, Niagara's only goal came from Ryan Strome. Namestnikov scored again for London but the winner for the Knights was scored by Ryan Rupert. A point of interest for the game is that the goaltenders for the best two teams in this year's World Junior Hockey Championships faced off against each other. Mark Visentin was in net for Niagara while Igor Bobkov was in net for London. Mark had ended up being the main goalie for Canada at the World Juniors while Igor had ended up in that same role for Russia at the Juniors, who had beat Canada in that gold medal game. The shots on goal favoured the Knights 37-29. Click here for the game recap.
On Saturday the Knights played in Erie against the Otters and lost 5-2. Here's the info. They now don't play until Thursday when they host the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds at the JLC. Start time is 7 PM.
Onto the Raptors...they lost heartbreakers vs the Pistons at home in Toronto and vs the Wizards in Washington on the road. Here's the game link vs the Pistons. Here also is the game link vs the Wizards. The fianl scores for both games were: Pistons 101, Raptors 95 and Wizards 98, Raptors 95. Toronto now travels to New Orleans to take on the Hornets TODAY at 3 PM on Rogers Sportsnet One.
That's it. I will now sign off, and goodbye.
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