An 8-2 home ice loss on Thursday night leaves the Storm down 3-1 in the best-of-seven series needing three straight wins to reach the second round.

Like every other game in the series, the Knights scored first but for the first time Guelph would bounce back to tie the game at one apiece.  The 1-1 lasted for just over three minutes and marked the last time the Storm was in this game.  London would strike for three powerplay goals on four opportunities and before the midway point of the game owned a commanding 6-2 lead. 

Matt Sisca provided all of the offence for the hosts notching his second and third goals of the post season. Sisca's first of the game tied the game at one after Seth Griffith blasted a snapshot short side under Brandon Foote's arm.  After Sisca's quick shot from the slot evened the score, Nazem Kadri scored with the man advantage and Justin Taylor stripped a Storm forward behind the goal to notch the eventual winner.  Chris De Sousa added his first of the playoffs on the powerplay with a nice one-timer and London took a 4-1 lead into the first intermission.  The visitors earned every part of the three goal lead badly outplaying and outchancing Guelph in the opening twenty and outshooting the Storm 16-4.

The second period was tighter on the shot clock, but only slightly tighter on the scoreboard as London added three more compared to a single by the Storm.  By the time Guelph went on their only powerplay of the night at 13:25 of the second they were down four goals. Matt Sisca would notch his second scooping up a long rebound off an Adam Comrie shot then it was four straight for London.  Kalle Ecklund, Leigh Salters and Daniel Erlich finished the scoring in the second and with less than ten seconds to play in regulation Chris Brown made it an 8-2 final.

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London Knights 8 At Guelph Storm 2 - Status: Final
Mar 25, 2010 - Sleeman Centre

London 4 3 1 - 8
Guelph 1 1 0 - 2

1st Period-1, London, Griffith 1 (Ekelund), 7:48. 2, Guelph, Sisca 2 (Beck, Menard), 9:59. 3, London, Kadri 3 (Knight, Tarasuk), 12:14 (pp). 4, London, Taylor 1   15:27. 5, London, DeSousa 1 (Erlich, Tarasuk), 17:52 (pp). Penalties-Syvret Gue (hooking), 10:33; Van Laren Gue (slashing), 11:07; Holland Gue (slashing), 16:12; Salters Ldn (fighting), 19:37; Latta Gue (fighting), 19:37.

2nd Period-6, Guelph, Sisca 3 (Comrie, Menard), 3:04. 7, London, Ekelund 1 (Kadri), 5:03. 8, London, Salters 2 (Tarasuk, Erlich), 8:15 (pp). 9, London, Erlich 3 (Tarasuk, Sanza), 18:55. Penalties-Comrie Gue (roughing), 7:18; Martin Ldn (inter. on goaltender), 13:25.

3rd Period-10, London, Brown 2 (Martin), 19:51. Penalties-No Penalties

Shots on Goal-London 16-14-7-37. Guelph 4-13-7-24.
Power Play Opportunities-London 3 of 4; Guelph 0 of 1.
Goalies-London, Hutchinson 3-1-0-0 (24 shots-22 saves). Guelph, Foote 1-2-1-0 (30 shots-23 saves); St. Jacques 0-0-0-0 (7 shots-6 saves).
A-4,417
Referees-Brent Holdsworth (22), Mike Pearce (25).
Linesmen-Jason Finley (37), Kendrick Nicholson (91).