RIMOUSKI, Que – The London Knights took a longer, more nerve-wracking route to win the Memorial Cup this time. But to their star forward, it was never in doubt.

“I knew we were going to win when we got to Rimouski,” tournament MVP Easton Cowan said after a 4-1 victory over Medicine Hat in the championship final Sunday in front of 4,512 at Sun Life Financial Coliseum. “That’s how confident I was in this group. I know how good the other teams were and we respected their game.

“We just played a good 60 (minutes) and that was good enough for us.”

The OHL champs flipped their script from a year ago in Saginaw and finished the job. They used their heartbreak of losing to the host Spirit with 21.7 seconds left in the final as fuel all season and put together one of the most dominant runs in fr

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