RED DEER, Alta. — Red Deer coach Brent Sutter got a taste of what Ontario Hockey League teams have had to deal with all season.

Mitch Marner had two goals and three assists and London's top line dominated in more ways than one as the Knights beat the host Rebels 6-2 on Friday to kick off the 2016 Memorial Cup.

The line of Marner, Christian Dvorak and Matthew Tkachuk was unstoppable all game and scored with ease. Dvorak had two goals and two assists and Tkachuk chipped in with an assist, while also having a game-high 10 shots on net.

"They're talented and skilled. When you give them space and allow them to do things they'll dominate you," said Sutter. "They play pretty well on both sides of the puck too. I thought we fell right into what they wanted.

"We got what we deserved."

The trio lit up the OHL in the regular season, all producing over 100 points, and finished their league playoffs one, two, three in scoring to earn their spot at the 98th Memorial Cup.

"I think we all complement each other real well, we all offer something different," said Tkachuk. "I think we all provide stuff that makes it easy on each other, we're able to feed off each other."

"It's been special, all three of us work well and its fun every night," added Marner, who extended his point streak to 17 games dating back to the OHL post-season.

Aaron Berisha and Victor Mete also scored for the Knights, who are on a 14-game win streak. Defenceman Olli Juolevi added two assists.

Tyler Parsons made 30 saves for the win.

Luke Philp and Adam Helewka scored for the Rebels. Rylan Toth stopped 30-of-36 shots in a losing cause.

Red Deer came out strong and competed for the first half of the first period. But a retaliation penalty after the whistle by defenceman Haydn Fleury on Tkachuk gave London the break it needed.

The Knights made Red Deer pay for Fleury's mistake and went on to score three times in a 4:40 span — putting the Rebels in a hole they could never dig themselves out of.

"We took an awful penalty, that's stuff we address all year, from our best defenceman," said Sutter. "We weren't assertive, we didn't play with emotion, had some breakdowns... needed someone to take charge and it snowballed on us."

"(Tkachuk) gave me a little spear there but I can't retaliate, that's on me," said Fleury. "We took 30 minutes off after the penalty I took there."

Marner said the draft-eligible Tkachuk was just playing to his strengths on the play that turned the game in London's favour.

"Tkachuck is really good at getting under players' skin, he's good at his job,"

Berisha opened the scoring on the power play at 13:51. Then, Dvorak added back-to-back goals by the 18:39 mark, both coming from nearly the same spot on the ice near the slot.

The Knights kept up the pressure to open the second and Marner made it 4-0 at 13:41. Mete made it 5-0 at 16:59 and Marner added another at 18:45.

"What raises (Marner) up above others is his character, blocks shots, kills penalties, does the little things coaches like, plus gets points," said London coach Dale Hunter.

The Rebels finally beat Parsons in the final minute of the second when Philp tipped in a Colton Bobyk point shot.

Helewka one-timed a feed from Fleury midway through the third on a power play to make it a more respectable score.

Notes: Red Deer's Conner Bleackley returned to action after missing the entire WHL playoffs with a wrist injury suffered in March... Enmax Centrium had a sellout crowd of 7,000 on hand... The Rouyn-Noranda Huskies face the Brandon Wheat Kings on Saturday.