Landon Sim scored twice and beat Saginaw Spirit 3-1 at Canada Life Place on March 14 with added assists.
The victory was the Cavaliers’ seventh straight win as they paid tribute to head coach Dale Hunter with his 1,000th victory before the game.
For both teams in two playoff positions, the intensity is more like an early playoff game than the regular season.
London exchanged first-stage goals for the defense with London and Saginaw, Zayne Parekh reached a strong spirit and Oliver Bonk answered in a strong match for London.
Cavaliers defensive player PJ Fagan dropped his gloves with Hayden Barch, son of former London striker Krys Barch.
Landon Sim scored a strong goal with another Cavaliers in the second stage to lead London 2-1. Sam Dickinson scored his second assist that night and moved most of his scoring with the London defender to two points for Evan Bouchard and Rick Corriveau.
At that time, Sim’s goal tied Dickinson with the Cavaliers’ lead by 28.
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Sim scored his only goal in the third stage with a 3-1 record when he scored 29 goals this season.
Sim tried to take the puck out of Spirit Zone, take it away, spin and shoot along the ice of Kaleb Papineau, and then bring the puck out, Sim chased Kristian Epperson.
London has no Captain Denver Barkey and forward Sam O’Reilly to play. Both Cavaliers players are listed as daily injury extra-day.
Austin Elliott recorded a win for London goals and is now 30-1 in 2024-25.
The Cavaliers are 2-2 perfect in power play and 3-3 perfect in free throw kills.
London beat Saginaw 28-27.
London Cavaliers’ home game is set as first round
The Cavaliers don’t know who they will face in the first round of the 2025 OHL playoffs, but they do know when the game will happen.
Sarnia, Owen Sound and Sault Ste. Marie is a possible opponent, with Game 1 set to be on Friday, March 28 at 7pm. Game 2 will be held at 2pm (Sunday, March 30) at 2pm (if necessary) and Game 5 will be held on Friday, April 4 at Life Plaza Canada. Game 7 will be Tuesday, April 8.
Both games start at 7 pm.
Next
London will travel to Windsor at 4pm on Sunday, March 16 to attend Spitfires
The club still has two games.
The home team has won all the games in the season series so far. The two teams were 2-2 overall.
Coverage will start with the 980 CFPL, 980cfpl.ca, and the Iheart Radio and RadioPlayer Canada application.
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