London Nationals

No one came close to keeping up with the St. Marys Lincolns this season.

Brandon Prust has preached driving hard to the net from the moment he started coaching. Connor Clark followed that advice and it saved the London Nationals’ season. The 19-year-old tapped home a loose puck for the go-ahead goal with 2:25 left in regulation in a 4-2 Game 4 victory over St. Marys Wednesday at the […]

The London Nationals swept away defending Sutherland Cup champion Listowel in the first round of the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League playoffs. Last year’s Cup finalists, however, are already proving a much more difficult test. The first-place St. Marys Lincolns jumped out to a four-goal lead in a Western Conference semifinal series-opening 4-2 victory over […]

The London Nationals lost a heart-breaking seven-game playoff conference final to the St. Marys Lincolns last year. But through it, the Junior B club gained one of their biggest-name bench bosses in franchise history. “It was that series that really made me want to coach,” said ex-NHLer and London Knights grad Brandon Prust, who was […]

A collection of news and notes from across the London-area sports scene The London Lightning’s Basketball Super League season came to an abrupt end in a 104-100 play-in loss to the Jamestown Jackals Tuesday in New York state. Veteran Billy White scored 26 points and pulled down 13 rebounds, but it wasn’t enough to counter […]

A collection of news and notes from across the Southwestern Ontario sports scene

A collection of news and notes from across the Southwestern Ontario hockey scene

The London Knights will face the Owen Sound Attack in the first round of the OHL playoffs. The defending league champs officially drew the Bayshore Bears on the final day of the regular season after the Sarnia Sting dropped a 5-2 decision in Sault Ste. Marie Sunday. The Knights won all six head-to-head meetings with […]

A collection of news and notes from across the London-area sports scene:

The St. Marys Lincolns can throw some impressive numbers at you.

The London Nationals will find out in these final five important regular-season games if all that off-ice training made a difference.

Dean Pomerleau learned a valuable lesson shortly after buying the London Nationals. Owning the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League team doesn’t get you any breaks in kangaroo court. “I had dress shoes on and walked across the carpet,” he recalled. “There were six to eight guys there and they said you owe us 34 bucks. […]