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Boston Bruins Look To 'Evolve Offensively' With New Coach Marco Sturm
Ottawa Senators 2024 Draft Sleepers: Luke Ellinas Signs Entry Level Deal; Blake Montgomery Ready For Memorial Cup The Ottawa Senators may have struck gold in the fourth round of last summer's NHL Draft. With three picks in that round, the Senators uncovered a trio of prospects who already look like potential steals. 1:34 Now Playing Paused Ad Playing
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23-05-2025
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Ottawa Senators 2024 Draft Sleepers: Luke Ellinas Signs Entry Level Deal; Blake Montgomery Ready For Memorial Cup
The Ottawa Senators may have struck gold in the fourth round of last summer's NHL Draft. With three picks in that round, the Senators uncovered a trio of prospects who already look like potential steals. Two of them took to the spotlight this week, including forward Luke Ellinas, who made news on Tuesday by signing a three-year, entry-level contract with the Senators. Recommended:Ottawa Senators Prospect Heads Home To Sign With Swedish TeamSenators Make More Front Office Changes, Adding NHL VeteranWill RFA Fabian Zetterlund Get Paid On His San Jose Numbers Or The Ones In Ottawa Bookmark The Hockey News Ottawa and never miss the latest Senators news, interviews, columns, features and more. Ellinas, 19, was selected 104th overall and has quickly emerged as an intriguing prospect from the 2024 draft class. He put together a breakout campaign with the Kitchener Rangers of the OHL this past season, registering 20 goals and 37 points in 50 regular-season games. His 20 goals ranked fifth on the team, and he appears to be one of those valuable players who can elevate in the playoffs, leading Kitchener in goals (8), assists (8), and points (16) over 14 games this spring. Through two OHL playoffs, he's averaged a point per game, with 24 points in as many appearances. He also scored one of the biggest goals in Rangers history: his OT goal in Game 7 capped Kitchener's comeback from an 0–3 deficit against Windsor. His natural hat trick also sparked the history-making comeback in Game 4, a 3–0 Ranger win. With that, the Rangers moved on to round three to face the London Knights, led by another 2024 Sens fourth-rounder, Blake Montgomery. The Knights made quick work of the Rangers, winning four straight. On Saturday night, Montgomery and the Knights will begin their pursuit of the 2025 Memorial Cup, facing QMJHL champion Moncton. Montgomery went 117th overall last summer, and at 6-foot-4 and 187 pounds, he has some filling out to do, but he transitioned nicely from the USHL to the OHL this season. He recorded 23 goals and 27 assists over 51 games and has become a key contributor for one of the league's top teams. When many of his top teammates were away at the World Juniors, that's when Montgomery really went off, posting 13 goals and 13 assists in 16 games. BMO Is Money: Ottawa Senators Forward Prospect Has 26 Points In Past 16 Games As a prospect, 6-foot-4 forward Blake Montgomery becomes more and more intriguing with each passing month. He just turned 20 and is set to play for the University of Wisconsin this fall, but hopes to lift the Memorial Cup first. Sandwiched between Ellinas and Montgomery, and taken by Ottawa at 112th overall, is power winger Javon Moore out of Minnetonka High School in Minnesota. Moore is already 6-foot-4, 202 pounds, and when he put up 53 points in 28 games in 2023-24, that was tough to ignore, even at the high school level. Moore, 19, had a solid 2024-25 USHL season with 17 goals and 39 points for the Sioux Falls Stampede. He had one goal in their four-game, best-of-five, second-round loss to Waterloo. Moore will continue his development this fall with the University of Minnesota. It's far too early to declare the 2024 draft a success, but based on early returns, Ottawa's fourth-round class has a chance to go down as one of the best value hauls in recent franchise history. Steve Warne The Hockey News-Ottawa Bookmark The Hockey News Ottawa and never miss the latest Senators news, interviews, columns, features and more.
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01-05-2025
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The London Knights advance to the OHL Championship Series for the 3rd year in a row
Sam Dickinson scored once and assisted on another as the London Knights defeated the Kitchener Rangers 4-2 to sweep their Western Conference Championship series in four games and advance to their third consecutive OHL Championship. London has gone 12-0 in the 2025 playoffs equalling the Windsor Spitfires run of a dozen straight in 1988 and the Hamilton Bulldogs from the 2021-22 season. The Ottawa 67's hold the record for most victories in a row in an OHL post-season. They won 14 consecutive in 2019. Kitchener took advantage of an early power play and scored 2:16 into the game as Jack Pridham found Luke Ellinas at the right post for his second goal of the series and eighth of the playoffs and the Rangers had the fans at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium on their feet. The Knights doused the crowd noise 56 seconds later as Noah Read scored on a goal mouth scramble to make it 1-1. Story continues below advertisement After Kitchener veterans Matt Andonovski and Luke Ellinas took back-to-back roughing penalties London made them pay. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. Sign up for daily National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy Easton Cowan slid a pass to Sam Dickinson and he blasted a one-timer by Jackson Parsons for his seventh goal of the post-season to put the Knights in front 2-1 through 20 minutes. Kasper Halttunen of London scored the only goal of the second period as he hammered home a rebound on a Knights power play at 13:21 to give London a 3-1 advantage. Oliver Bonk and Jacob Julien picked up the assists on the play. Julien's assist gave him eight points in the series. Dickinson fired a shot off the pad of Parsons on a dash down left win in the third period and Jesse Nurmi drained the rebound to give the Knights a three-goal lead. The Rangers pulled goaltender Parsons with a little over four minutes left and got a goal from Pridham but London held from their to win the game and the series. The Knights were missing forwards Evan Van Gorp and Denver Barkey due to injury and defenceman Jared Woolley due to suspension. Woolley was given a one-game suspension after receiving a major penalty and a game misconduct for kneeing in Game 3. London outshot Kitchener 36-27. Story continues below advertisement The Knights were 2-for-6 on the power play. The Rangers were 1-for 3. Knights playoff scoring on a franchise record pace The Knights have now played a dozen games in the 2025 OHL Playoffs and they have scored 62 goals. That has them averaging 5.5 goals per game and that is the highest goals per game average of any London team making it to at least the third round. In fact they are the only Knights team that is averaging better than five goals per game this far into the playoffs. Here are the top-5: 2025 5.16 2024 4.8 2016 4.67 2004 4.60 2005 4.56
