{"id":145790,"date":"2025-05-31T03:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T03:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/145790\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T03:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T03:36:15","slug":"london-beats-moncton-5-2-to-advance-to-face-medicine-hat-in-memorial-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/145790\/","title":{"rendered":"London beats Moncton 5-2 to advance to face Medicine Hat in Memorial Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIMOUSKI, Quebec (AP) \u2014 Blake Montgomery broke a tie at 3:35 of the third period and the London Knights beat the Moncton Wildcats 5-2 on Friday night in the Memorial Cup semifinal to advance to face the Medicine Hat Tigers on Sunday in the final.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TSN_Sports\/status\/1928623425003696526\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Montgomery slipped the puck past goalie Mathis Rousseau;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Montgomery slipped the puck past goalie Mathis Rousseau<\/a> on a break off a short backhand feed from Sam Dickinson.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday night, Western Hockey League champion Medicine Hat beat Ontario Hockey lewague winner London 3-1 to advance to the final in the four-team tournament. The Knights lost last year in the final, falling 4-3 to the host Saginaw Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Landon Sim, Denver Barkey, Jesse Nurmi and Easton Cowan \u2014 into an empty net \u2014 also scored for London. Austin Elliott made 21 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Caleb Desnoyers and Dyllan Gill had power-play goals for Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League champion Moncton, with Gill tying it at 2 in the second period. Rousseau stopped 32 shots for the Wildcats.<\/p>\n<p>Moncton won the QMJHL title in Rimouski last week, beating the Oceanic in six games. On Wednesday, the Wildcats beat host Rimouski 6-2 to reach the semifinal.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP sports: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/sports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/sports;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RIMOUSKI, Quebec (AP) \u2014 Blake Montgomery broke a tie at 3:35 of the third period and the London&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,62733,62735,393,4884,257,8861,62731,62728,62727,62726,62734,62730,6938,62732,16,15,62729],"class_list":{"0":"post-145790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-denver-barkey","10":"tag-easton-cowan","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-london-knights","15":"tag-mathis-rousseau","16":"tag-medicine-hat","17":"tag-medicine-hat-tigers","18":"tag-moncton-wildcats","19":"tag-montgomery","20":"tag-ontario-hockey","21":"tag-quebec","22":"tag-rimouski","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-western-hockey-league"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114600357682458543","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}