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| Jacob Julien scored the winner as the London Knights beat the Rimouski Oceanic on Sunday at the 2025 Memorial Cup. Photo courtesy Vincent Ethier/CHL |
The Ontario Hockey League’s London Knights are in the driver’s seat through three days at the 2025 Memorial Cup in Rimouski, Que.
Just 24 hours after opening the tournament with an overtime win, the Knights knocked off the host team, the Rimouski Oceanic, by a 3-1 margin to improve to 2-0 on Sunday evening at Sun Life Financial Coliseum.
“That was two strong teams going at it,” Knights forward Jacob Julien said. “Both played really well defensively and offensively, and we were fortunate enough to come out on top.”
The Knights didn’t make things easy on the Oceanic, but the host team found ways to get some chances in the setback.
“They have big D and they’re good at boxing out,” Rimouski coach Joel Perreault said of the Knights. “You have to earn your space on the ice, and we did a good job with that. We had a lot of shifts where we were buzzing and a couple of shots where their goalie (Austin Elliott) made some really big saves.”
After the teams skated through a scoreless opening period, Rimouski opened the scoring 2:14 into the second period as Eriks Matieko banked in a loose puck off a London player after Mathieu Cataford drove the net initially, but lost control of the puck.
The Knights tied the game midway through the period as defenceman Henry Brzustewicz got the puck, skated into the right faceoff circle, and beat Rimouski goaltender Mathis Langevin stick side to make it a 1-1 game at 9:47.
The Knights took the lead with 5:07 to go as Jacob Julien finished off a three-way passing play by going to the net and redirecting a pass from Kasper Halttunen in the right faceoff circle past Langevin.
Easton Cowan sealed the London victory, scoring into an empty net with 1:52 to go in regulation time.
Cowan had a goal and an assist for London while Elliott stopped 28 shots in the victory.
Langevin made 33 saves in the setback as the host team drops to 0-2.
The Knights are off on Monday before taking on the Medicine Hat Tigers on Tuesday night in the final round robin game for both clubs.
Rimouski will have two days off before facing the Moncton Wildcats on Wednesday in the final game of the round robin.
Monton and Medicine Hat are set to meet on Monday night.
Lineups
London
Easton
Cowan-Sam O’Reilly-Blake Montgomery
Denver
Barkey-Jacob Julien-Landon Sim
Jesse
Nurmi-William Nicholl-Kasper Halttunen
Ryder
Boulton-Evan Van Gorp-Noah Read
Sam
Dickinson-Henry Brzustewicz
Jared
Woolley-Oliver Bonk
Adoni
Fimis-Cam Allen
Austin
Elliott
Aleksei
Medvedev
Scratches – Rene Van Bommel, Noah Aboflan, Logan Hawery, Liam Spencer, P.J. Fagan II
Rimouski
Eriks
Mateiko-Mathieu Cataford-Mael Lavigne
Jonathan
Fauchon-Jacob Mathieu- Alexandre Blais
Mathys Dube-Mael
St. Denis-Maxime Coursol
Lou
Levesque-Thomas Belzile-Dominic Pilote
Jack
Martin-Pier-Olivier Roy
Anthony Pare-Basile
Sansonnens
Olivier
Theberge-Luke Coughlan
Mathis
Langevin
William
Lacelle
Tournament Results
Round Robin
May 23 – Medicine Hat 5, Rimouski 4
May 24 – London
3, Moncton 2 (OT)
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