Blake Montgomery’s teammates Evan Van Gorp set up three goals and Aleksei Medvedev stopped 37 of the 38 shots he faced as the London Knights defeated the Firebirds 4-1 in Flint, Michigan.
The win, London’s fourth in a row, ended the Firebirds’ five-game winning streak.
The game marked the halfway mark of the Knights’s 2024-25 schedule; they currently sit in the top spot in overall OHL standings with a record of 28 wins and six losses.
The teams zoomed all over the ice in the first period but failed to find the back of the net thanks to the work of the goaltenders.
Medvedev was back inside the building where he earned his first Ontario Hockey League victory on September 29th, 2024, and he looked right at home as he made 12 stops through the first 20 minutes.
Edmonton Oilers prospect Nathan Day made nine saves at the other end of the ice.
London played the game without five regulars who are away at the World Junior Hockey Championship. They were also without Will Nicholl and Logan Hawery who missed the game due to illness.
Noah Aboflan got the scoring started four minutes and 16 seconds into the second period as he tipped in a Cam Allen shot for his third of the year.
Andoni Fimis scored his first Ontario Hockey League goal at 4:07 of the third period to make it 2-0 for London.
A little under eight minutes later Van Gorp found Henry Brzustewicz coming late on a play and fed him the puck. Brzustewicz walked in, deked Day and scored the Knights’ third goal of the game.
Just 13 seconds later Montgomery spun the puck out of the corner and zipped a pass to P.J. Fagan and the London defender snapped his second goal of the season behind Day to give the Knights a 4-0 lead.
Connor Clattenburg scored Flint’s lone goal with 1:47 remaining to close out the scoring.
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