Another solid effort for the Bombers who doubled the Ice Wolves 6-3 and picked up their sixth straight win last night at the Whitney Forum.
Flin Flon opened the scoring when Knaub picked up his 5th of the year, firing a rebound past Kris Joyce 8:10 into the opening period. Laronge responded late in the first when Iron re-directed a nice shot over Simon Hofley's right shoulder to make it 1-1 after 1.
Jared Iron would score his second of the night and 12th of the year, just 48 seconds into the second before the Bombers would take over. Bell converted a nice pass from Boehm to tie the game at 2:32, and captain Dean Allison would put Flin Flon up for good when he scored late in the frame to give the home side a 3-2 lead after 2.
Lots of offense in the third as Switzer and Rauckman would score on the power play and Evans-Campbell would score an insurance goal to put Flin Flon up 6-3 and chase starting goaltender Kris Joyce. Laronge would get a short handed goal from Michael Cardinal for their only goal in the third.
The Bombers fired a lot of rubber at the Ice Wolf net and out shot Laronge 53-36 and have beat the Ice Wolves 4 out of 5 games this season.
Flin Flon improves to: 21-5-7-4 and continue to lead Nipawin by 1 point for second place in the Sherwood Division after the Hawks kept pace beating Melville 2-1 last night. The Bombers also have sole possesion of third place overall, 1 point up on Nipawin and 2 points on Notre Dame.
Brett Boehm continues to be a great story and has picked up a point in every game he has played since coming back to the Bombers, and has 8 points in 4 games including 4 assists last night. Chris Rauckman seems to have his scoring touch back and now leads the team with 26 goals and sits second in the league, 1 goal behind Travis Mayan of Melfort.
Austin Evans had a spirited fight with Cole Porter which had both benches jumping not to mention a spirited crowd at the Whitney Forum. Evans mentioned after the game that Porter had been calling him out the last 3 times they had played and he thought the timing was right and his team needed a boost.
"I kind of surprised my self how that fight went, I got some tips from some of the guys at intermission and I wanted to stand up to him and I thought win or lose it would give a boost to the guys. It was nice to finish with the big w."
The Bombers winning streak will be put to the test when they travel to Kindersley for back to back games this weekend. The Klippers have only lost 1 game in regulation at home this season and are unbeaten in their last 7.
This should be a great matchup with two of the league's top teams who like to put the puck in the net. Kindersley leads the league in goals for with 148 and the Bombers are right behind with 135. This will be their third meeting of the year Friday, with Flin Flon having something to prove after blowing a 4 goal lead back on December the 5th. The season series is 1-1
No matter what go's down you will have the best seat in the house with both games broadcast on 102.9 CFAR and flinflononline.com with the Murray GM Coach's Show both nights at 7:15 from the West Central Events Centre.
