2025 Memorial Cup: Knighted - London captures Memorial Cup title

Photo courtesy Vincent Ethier/CHL

The London Knights are Memorial Cup champions.

A year after losing in the tournament final on a late-minute goal against the Saginaw Spirit, the Knights skated to a 4-1 win over the Western Hockey League’s Medicine Hat Tigers on Sunday night in the tournament final in Rimouski, Que.

London opened the scoring 11:21 into the game as Jacob Julien beat Medicine Hat goaltender Harrison Meneghin with a backhand on a breakaway after a great pass from defenceman Henry Brzustewicz.

Easton Cowan made it a 2-0 game 3:13 into the second period as he went to the net and redirected a pass from Sam O’Reilly past Meneghin.

Just 1:40 later, Denver Barkey beat Meneghin with a backhand glove side on a breakaway to make it a 3-1 game.

Barkey picked up his second goal of the night at 12:08 of the second period as he beat Meneghin with a shot from the top of the left circle high glove side through traffic.

Medicine Hat got on the board at – of the third period as Gavin McKenna stepped in from the top of the right faceoff circle and beat London goaltender Austin Elliott glove side to make it a 4-1 game.

Sam Dickinson assisted on three goals for the Knights in the victory.

Elliott stopped 31 shots while Meneghin made 20 saves for the Tigers.

Lineups

London
Denver Barkey-Sam O’Reilly-Easton Cowan
Jesse Nurmi-Jacob Julien-Landon Sim
Blake Montgomery-William Nicholl-Kasper Halttunen
Rene Van Bommel-Evan Van Gorp-Noah Read
Sam Dickinson-Henry Brzustewicz
Jared Woolley-Oliver Bonk
Adoni Fimis-Cam Allen
Austin Elliott
Aleksei Medvedev

Scratches – Ryder Boulton, Noah Aboflan, Logan Hawery, Liam Spencer, P.J. Fagan II

Medicine Hat
Gavin McKenna-Oasiz Wiesblatt-Ryder Ritchie
Andrew Basha-Cayden Lindstrom-Hunter St. Martin
Mathew Ward-Misha Volotovskii-Ethan Neutens
Marcus Pacheco-Schaeffer Gordon-Carroll-Liam Ruck
Tanner Molendyk-Veeti Vaisanen
Jonas Woo-Bryce Pickford
Niikopekka Muhonen-Josh Van Mulligen
Harrison Meneghin
Jodan Switzer

Scratches – Kadon McCann, Tyson Moss, Carter Cunningham, Marcus Ruck

Tournament Results

Round Robin
May 23 – Medicine Hat 5, Rimouski 4
May 24 – London 3, Moncton 2 (OT)
May 25 – London 3, Rimouski 1
May 26 – Medicine Hat 3, Moncton 1
May 27 – Medicine Hat 3, London 1
May 28 – Moncton 6, Rimouski 2

Semifinal
May 30 – London 5, Moncton 2