The London Knights don’t like mid-week road games.

For the second straight Wednesday, they surrendered multiple first-period goals and a ton of early shots. It hurt them in Guelph Nov. 5 and cost them again in a 3-2 defeat to the Flint Firebirds before 2,932 at the Dort Financial Center.

The Firebirds scored twice in the opening 20 minutes and fired 19 shots. Last week, Guelph scored three times on 18 first-period shots.

“It’s a different schedule,” London assistant coach Rick Steadman said. “You get up at different times. You don’t get the same amount of practice time and they just don’t have their game going the way they should. It’s a slow start and that got us behind the eight-ball even though (goalie Aleksei Medvedev) made some huge saves for us.

“We just couldn’t quite get it bac

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