Knight's player Cam Allen to play again mid-March after impaired driving conviction

CBC News

· Posted: Mar 07, 2025 2:28 PM EST | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

A London Knights defenceman volition beryllium backmost connected the crystal successful little than 2 weeks aft being sentenced for drunk driving.

Cam Allen, 20, was charged connected Feb. 8 with impaired driving successful a single-vehicle clang respective days earlier adjacent Colonel Talbot Road and Clayton Walk successful the Lambeth area.

Allen's car was recovered with humor inside, a rider was taken to infirmary with insignificant injuries, and constabulary recovered Allen astatine a adjacent address, officers said astatine the time.

Allen entered a blameworthy plea, and connected Feb. 27, helium was sentenced by a London justice to a two-year driving ban, 2 years of probation and a $4,200 fine.

"Now that the ineligible substance has been concluded, the OHL has imposed respective requirements connected Allen successful bid to beryllium reinstated to play successful the league, which helium volition beryllium eligible for starting connected Sunday, Mar. 16, pursuing a play of 15 games nether suspension," the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) wrote successful a statement.

It said Allen volition beryllium required to participate in a substance usage therapy program. He'll besides beryllium required to execute assemblage work wrong the hockey community. There volition besides beryllium a probationary period, erstwhile helium returns to the ice.

Originally from Toronto, Allen is simply a Washington Capitals imaginable who was drafted arsenic a fifth-round prime successful 2023. He played for the Guelph Storm earlier joining the Knights successful December.