London Knights come home with 3-1 series lead in Western Conference Championship

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The London Knights beat the Saginaw Spirit 7-3 on May 1 at the Dow Event Center.

defeated the Spirit 7-3 in Saginaw in Game 4 of the Western Conference Championship series on May 1 to take a 3-1 series lead.

O’Reilly had a short-handed chance later in the period as he was sent to the Spirit net alone by Easton Cowan but Lalonde robbed him with a glove save.Is inside sports betting on the rise? Why the problem may get ‘more common’Landon Sim scored for London at 4:04 on a feed from McCue to put the Knights ahead by two but 1:40 later Jorian Donovan of the Spirit got that goal back.

In the third period the Knights did some solid defending and then got a major break as O’Reilly got a puck to McCue and he carried into the Saginaw zone and found Cowan going to the net. Cowan’s shot was stopped but the puck deflected in off the skate of Joey Willis who was charging back to try and help on the two-on-one and that had London ahead by two goals with 4:05 remaining on the clock.O’Reilly then scored on a bank shot that went off the boards and trickled into an an empty net.

Kaleb Lawrence of the Knights and James Guo of the Spirit each completed five game suspensions and will be eligible to return to their respective lineups on Friday, May 3, when the series returns to Budweiser Gardens in London.Londoner Jett Luchanko and his Team Canada teammates will meet Latvia in the quarterfinals of the 2024 Under-18 World Hockey Championship on May 2.

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