The big boys need to be big if you want to win.

So says Kitchener Rangers coach Jussi Ahokas often in his postgame interviews.

But sometimes you need the little guys too.

Not little in size, but in role.

Three of them were pivotal in Kitchener’s 3-2 come-from-behind overtime victory over rivals the London Knights Sunday afternoon at Canada Life Place.

There was Kaden Schneider, a defenceman that spent most of last season with the Cambridge RedHawks on the Greater Ontario Hockey League loop and who has been in and out of the lineup so far this season as an extra rearguard.

The six-foot-four, 196-pounder added a physical presence and scored his first career Ontario Hockey League goal on a first period floater from the point that gave the visitors a 1-0 lead.

“When I first came here an

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