LONDON — Sam O'Reilly's second goal of the game, scored 58 seconds into overtime, lifted the London Knights to a 5-4 Ontario Hockey League victory over the visiting Flint Firebirds on Friday at Canada Life Place.

Linus Funck, Cohen Bidgood and Jared Woolley also scored for the Knights (1-2-2-0), who outshot the visitors 44-31 and went 1-for-3 on the power play for their first win of the season.

Nathan Aspinall scored twice for the Firebirds (1-2-1-0), who lead 2-0 after the first period but went into the third tied 3-3. Charlie Murata and Matthew Wang also scored for the Firebirds, who went 0-for-2 with the man advantage. Jimmy Lombardi and Alex Kostov each had two assists.

Knights netminder Aleksei Medvedev kicked out 27 of 31 shots, while Firebirds netminder Mason Vaccari stopped 39 o

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