{"id":18409,"date":"2025-04-14T05:21:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T05:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/18409\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T05:21:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T05:21:18","slug":"london-knights-clobber-erie-otters-to-take-2-0-series-lead-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/18409\/","title":{"rendered":"London Knights clobber Erie Otters to take 2-0 series lead – London"},"content":{"rendered":"

London Knights captain Denver Barkey scored once and added three assists as the Knights downed the Erie Otters 7-2 on April 12 at Canada Life Place.<\/p>\n

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Barkey is now averaging about three points per game in the postseason, with 17 points in the six games they have played in 2025.<\/p>\n

London as a team has scored at least six goals in all six of those playoff games.<\/p>\n

Easton Cowan scored twice for the Knights and had an assist, while Will Nicholl had a goal and two assists.\u00a0Landon Sim had one goal and one assist.<\/p>\n

The Knights lead the best-of-seven series two games to none.<\/p>\n

For the second game in a row, the Otters opened the scoring on a power play, and for the second game in a row, the goal started with a shot from Pano Fimis.<\/p>\n

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In Game 1, that shot went in. In Game 2, it produced a rebound that Sam Alfano swept over the goal line for a 1-0 Otter lead just 5:57 into the game.<\/p>\n

From there, a hit by Ty Henry on Kasper Halttunen produced a penalty and seemed to jump-start the Knights and they scored three straight.<\/p>\n

Cam Allen swung a behind-the-back pass to Nicholl, who moved across the Erie blue line and wired a shot past Noah Erliden to tie the game 1-1 at 9:27.<\/p>\n

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Barkey started a play in his own zone and then finished it at the other end of the ice to make it 2-1 London at the 14:32 mark as he started a break-out and then eventually took a feed from behind the net from Nicholl and scored.<\/p>\n

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Blake Montgomery broke up a pass in centre ice just under three minutes later and then corralled a puck off a dump-in that came off the end glass and into the slot and the Knights led 3-1 through 20 minutes.<\/p>\n

Sim scored his fifth goal of the playoffs at 13:15 of the second period on a drop-pass from Halttunen, but the Otters got that back on a power play just under four minutes later and the score sat 4-2 into the final minute.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when Cowan grabbed a puck on the left wing side of the ice and spun his way by a defender, took the puck to the net and deked home his fifth of the post-season with just 9.9 seconds left on the clock.<\/p>\n

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Cowan\u2019s goal was scored on Charlie Burns who entered the Erie net with 3:33 to go in the second period.<\/p>\n

Barkey used a stretch pass to free up Cowan just 1:08 into the third period and Cowan\u2019s second goal of the night and sixth goal of the playoffs and that made it 6-2 for London.<\/p>\n

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