RIMOUSKI, Quebec \u2014 Philadelphia Flyers prospect Denver Barkey scored twice in the second period and the London Knights beat the Medicine Hat Tigers 4-1 on Saturday night for their third Memorial Cup title.<\/p>\n
Jacob Julien and Easton Cowan also scored and Austin Elliott made 31 saves to help the Ontario Hockey League champion Knights win the junior hockey championship a year after losing in the final to host Saginaw.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is something I\u2019ll never forget,\u201d said Barkey, London’s captain. \u201cWe worked all year toward this, and this is the tightest team I\u2019ve ever played on. To be able to do it with these guys. It\u2019s so surreal. Going to remember this for life.\u201d<\/p>\n
After a 3-1 loss to Western Hockey League champion Medicine Hat on Tuesday night in round-robin play, London beat Moncton 5-2 on Friday night in the semifinal game to set up the rematch with the Tigers.<\/p>\n
London also won the Memorial Cup in 2005 and 2016. The Knights are owned by former NHL players Dale and Mark Hunter and Basil McRae, with Dale Hunter serving as president and coach and Mark Hunter as general manager.<\/p>\n
Dale Hunter won his third title to match former Kamloops and Vancouver coach Don Hay’s record.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an empty feeling when you go home with nothing,\u201d Dale Hunter said. \u201cWhen you come to this tournament, you had a good year, but when you don\u2019t win the last game, it\u2019s not successful.\u201d<\/p>\n
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London Knights’ Jacob Julien (13) scores against Medicine Hat Tigers goaltender Harrison Meneghin, left, during first-period Memorial Cup final hockey game action in Rimouski, Quebec, Sunday, June 1, 2025. Credit: AP\/Christopher Katsarov<\/p>\n
Medicine Hat star Gavin McKenna spoiled Elliott’s shutout bid early in the third period, and Harrison Meneghin stopped 20 shots for the Tigers. They won the Memorial Cup in 1987 and 1988.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey cared, they tried,\u201d Tigers coach Willie Desjardins said. \u201cComing in, we only have one problem, that\u2019s London\u2019s a really good hockey team. It wasn\u2019t that we didn\u2019t want it, wasn\u2019t that we didn\u2019t try. They\u2019re just a good team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Julien opened the scoring midway through the first period. Cowan, a first-round pick by Toronto, and Barkey scored in a 1:40 span early in the second and Barkey made it 4-0 on a power play with 7:52 left in the period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RIMOUSKI, Quebec \u2014 Philadelphia Flyers prospect Denver Barkey scored twice in the second period and the London Knights…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,15868,257,13828,16,15,34242],"class_list":{"0":"post-151285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114612083358718619","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151285","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=151285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}