Jared Woolley scored the game-winning goal on a short-handed two-on-one in the second period as the London Knights downed the Peterborough Petes 3-1 on Friday at Canada Life Place.
The victory gave the Knights their 40th win of the season. London has hit 40 victories in 17 of the past 24 seasons.
The next closest team on that list is the Kitchener Rangers with 10.
The Petes became the first team to hold Easton Cowan off the scoresheet in a regular season game since the Sudbury Wolves did it on Nov. 24, 2023
Cowan’s streak will go down as the longest regular season streak ever stretching between two seasons at 65 games.
Sam O’Reilly found Kasper Halttunen coming across the Peterborough blue line to open the scoring as the San Jose Sharks prospect ripped home his fourth goal in six games for the Knights to give them a 1-0 lead.
Colin Fitzgerald of the Petes tied the game at 4:04 of the second period as he went to the net and tipped in a pass from Braydon McCallum.
The game stayed that way late into the middle period when London defenceman Jared Woolley carried through centre ice short-handed with Jesse Nurmi on a two-on-one. Woolley kept the puck and fired it past Easton Rye into the Petes net for his second goal in two games and the Knights led 2-1 going into the final 20 minutes.
Evan Van Gorp scored the only goal in the third period set up by Will Nicholl and Sam Dickinson.
Cowan rifled a shot off the goal post late in the third but that is as close as either team would come to scoring in the final three minutes.
