{"id":403963,"date":"2025-09-07T00:46:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T00:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/403963\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T00:46:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T00:46:18","slug":"london-knights-blank-erie-otters-to-go-4-0-in-2025-pre-season-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/403963\/","title":{"rendered":"London Knights blank Erie Otters to go 4-0 in 2025 pre-season &#8211; London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Jaden Cholette made 26 saves in the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/london-knights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Knights<\/a>\u2018 net as London defeated the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/erie-otters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Erie Otters<\/a> 2-0 on Saturday at Western Fair Sports Centre to complete a perfect 4-0 pre-season.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It also marked the second game in a row that a Knights goalie was named first star after Seb Gatto\u2019s 29 stops gave him the honour in a 2-1 London victory a night earlier at Canada Life Place.<\/p>\n<p>Evan Van Gorp and Logan Hawery scored the only goals of the game and both came in the first period.<\/p>\n<p>Knights forwards Cohen Bidgood and Brody Cook combined to find Van Gorp in front of the Otters\u2019 net, where the third-year forward was able to reach the puck around Erie goalie Charlie Burns and tap it across the goal line at 12:21 to make it 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>London\u2019s Jaxon Cover did the work later in the period to push the puck through some traffic and into the slot, where Hawery nabbed and slid it into the net for his third goal and seventh point in four pre-season games.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The game sailed scoreless through the second period thanks to a few outstanding stops from Cholette. The 19-year-old from Gloucester, Ont., was called on to make four saves on an Erie power play and then back-to-back point-blank stops after a steal below the goal line in the Knights\u2019 zone.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11395004\/ice-raid-hyundai-georgia-plant\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/hyundai-raid.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tICE agents detain 475 people in raid at Hyundai plant in Georgia\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11399596\/air-canada-flight-attendants-vote-reject-wage-offer\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0adbbba5db82dbb61210e05df8b660e11ae888c6ec217a5ab24fea69ab1fb760.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tAir Canada flight attendants vote to reject airline\u2019s wage offer\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>London limited the Otters to just seven shots over the final 20 minutes and a Cholette save in tight late preserved the shutout.<\/p>\n<p>The Knights outshot Erie 30-26.<\/p>\n<p>London was 0-for-2 on the power play and 3-for-3 on the penalty kill.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>The Knights will raise their 2025 Memorial Cup championship banner and begin the regular season on Friday, Sept. 19 at 7 p.m., against the Owen Sound Attack.<\/p>\n<p>Coverage will begin at 6:30 p.m. on 980 CFPL, on <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/radio\/am980\/player\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CFPL online<\/a> or on the iHeart Radio or Radioplayer Canada apps.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Jaden Cholette made 26 saves in the Knights\u2018 net as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,8862,4884,257,8861,12248,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-403963","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-erie-otters","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-london-knights","14":"tag-ohl","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115160258045869477","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403963","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=403963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}