Knights outbattled in Memorial Cup final
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In a game that started out slow but picked up in the third period, the Saginaw Spirit are Memorial Cup champions.
It was heartbreaking defeat for the London Knights.
The Saginaw Spirit’s Josh Bloom broke a 3-3 tie with 21.7 seconds left in regulation to give the franchise its first Memorial Cup championship in franchise history.
London, the top team in the Canadian Hockey League, looked lifeless for nearly 48 minutes as the host Spirit controlled the play.
However trailing 3-1 in the third period, the Knights would not go away.
Easton Cowan and Sam Dickinson scored 2:28 apart to bring the game level at three goals apiece.
London looked to be controlling the play for the final 10 minutes of the third, but they could not clear the zone on a dump out, and the Spirit converted to win the title in front of 5,373 fans at the Dow Event Center.
It was the 12th meeting of the year between the two teams, and although London won seven of the first 11, the Spirit won the one that mattered.
