Knights break Greyhound hearts again (video)

The London Knights continue to break the hearts of the Soo Greyhounds.

On Monday night at the Steelback Centre, Robbie Drummond fired home the game winner as the Knights upended the Greyhounds 6-5 in overtime.

With the game three victory, London takes a commanding 3-0 in the best-of-seven Ontario Hockey League western conference semi-final series and can complete a sweep in game four on Tuesday night at the Steelback Centre at 7 p.m.

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Despite falling behind 5-2 after two periods, the Greyhounds showed character by rebounding with three goals of their own in the third period to tie the score at 5-5 and send the game into overtime.

After just 58 seconds of play in the first period, the game was halted for nearly 20 minutes as the Steelback Centre lights went out on the ice surface.

Despite the distraction, the Hounds came out flying. Andrew Desjardins and Dustin Jeffrey had glorious chances early but couldn't convert.

On their first scoring chance of the game, the Knights' Patrick Kane notched his first goal of the series when he took a feed from Sam Gagner and beat Kyle Gajewski in the Greyhound net on a two-on-one break after a turnover inside the London zone.

The Greyhounds tied the game midway through the frame on Cody Thornton's nifty shorthanded goal before the Knights regained the lead at 2-1 with a Justin Taylor goal with 1:11 remaining.

In the second period, the Greyhounds hit the ice with a ton of energy and Jeffrey had three great opportunities from close range but was turned away by goaltender Steve Mason.

But penalties began to accumulate against the Hounds and the Knights power play converted as David Meckler recorded a hat trick with three power play markers in the period to give London a 5-2 lead.

Josh Godfrey countered with a second period goal for the Greyhounds while playing four skaters a side. Godfrey's tally, on a blast from the point, was his eighth of the playoffs.

In the third period, the Knights found themselves in penalty trouble and let the Greyhound power play go to work with three goals of ther own.

After Mason misplayed the puck behind the net, Jiri Tlusty grabbed it and wrapped the puck into the empty net. Then Jeffrey beat Mason before rookie Chris MacKinnon scored his first goal of the playoffs with 5:33 remaining to send the game into overtime.

Jeffrey picked up an assist in the game as did Tlusty and Godfrey. Gagner assisted three times for the Knights while Josh Beaulieu, Jordan Foreman and Adam Perry set up two goals each and Kane one.

Gajewski faced 26 London shots in the loss while Mason saw 32 Greyhound shots.

Greyhounds head coach Craig Hartsburg sat out the first of a two-game suspension leaving assistant coaches Denny Lambert and Toots Kovacs to run the bench.

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