School was in at the Sleeman Centre on Sunday afternoon.
The London Knights taught the Guelph Storm a thing or two about puck possession, cycling the puck down low and being patient enough to wait for quality scoring chances in an 8-1 drubbing of the Storm.
"They had the puck most of the night ... they're a team that when they have the puck they keep the puck, they're that skilled," Storm coach Jarrod Skalde said.
"It wasn't a thing that they were looking for quantity (of shots), they were looking for good looks. When they had the puck it might take them 10, 15, 20 seconds to find that that good look, but they were going to wait for that good one," Skalde said.
The Storm played with four rookie defencemen and a forward playing defence in James McEwan, as four regular defencemen are out of the lineup, three with injuries and one with a suspension.
They got away with it Friday in a big upset of the Erie Otters, but not Sunday.
"I was feeling for them after the first period, they were all just gassed," Skalde said of his blueline corps.
"When you spend 89 per cent of your time defending, it wears on you. They did the best they could. It was a tough night."
The Knights scored their eight goals on just 31 shots, putting six past Anthony Popovich in the first 40 minutes then two by Liam Herbst in the third.
Not that Popovich had a particularly bad game, it was just that almost all of the shots were from high-quality areas near the net. Few shots from the point and hardly any from bad angles.
The game was tied 1-1 late into the first period, but
"I thought we played not too bad in the first period but we were still down 3-1. Then once they got that fourth they controlled the game and they controlled the pace, every aspect of it," Skalde said.
Sam Miletic led the visitors with a pair of goals and J.J. Piccinich had three assists.
James McEwan had
Kyle Rhodes, who took a slap shot off the thumb Friday night against
