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Six OMHA Grads Win OHL Championship

By Ontario Minor Hockey Association, 05/12/16, 10:30AM EDT

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London Knights now move on to Memorial Cup

The OMHA would like to congratulate the London Knights on capturing the OHL Championship and celebrate the six OMHA grads featured on the roster.

The Knights entered Wednesday’s game up 3-0 in the final series over the Niagara IceDogs and completed the sweep with a 1-0 win to capture the franchise’s fourth OHL Championship.

Coming from all across the province, the six OMHA grads on the Knights include Evan Bouchard (Oakville Rangers), Aiden Jamieson (Central Ontario Wolves), Owen MacDonald (Guelph Jr. Storm), Robert Thomas (York-Simcoe Express), Chad Heffernan (Peterborough Petes) and Jacob Buch (Hamilton Jr. Bulldogs).

Evan Bouchard

Evan Bouchard


Chad Heffernan


Aiden Jamieson


Robert Thomas


Owen MacDonald

Thomas led all rookie forwards on the team in playoff scoring with five points in 15 games.

In a touching moment following the trophy presentation, Knights captain Mitch Marner handed the J. Ross Robertson Cup to Buch, who is battling cancer and was unable to play in the playoffs.


Jacob Buch

London now moves on to the Memorial Cup tournament where they will face the best major junior teams from across Canada. The Red Deer Rebels will host the Knights and the champions of the QMJHL and WHL in a round robin tournament followed by a playoff.

In the 2016 OHL Priority Selection, the Knights selected five OMHA players. In total, there were 86 OMHA players chosen in the draft.

The championship continues the OMHA’s rich tradition of developing hometown hockey players into tomorrow’s superstars. Brian Elliott (York-Simcoe Express) has backstopped the St. Louis Blues to the Western Conference Finals while Chris Tierney (York-Simcoe Express), Logan Couture (Lucan Irish) and the San Jose Sharks battle James Neal (Whitby Wildcats) and the Nashville Predators to see which team advances to face St. Louis.

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