The Flin Flon Bombers rebounded nicely after a pair of tough losses in Kindersley the previous weekend by out scoring the Yorkton Terriers over the weekend at the Whitney Forum 15-6.
After a 7-1 win Friday, Flin Flon picked up the 8-5 win in front of 500 plus Saturday night. What makes these wins even more important besides keeping pace with Nipawin, the Bombers were able to get some secondary offense from a lot of differant players.
Austin Calladine broke out for a 3 point game including 2 goals, Kocur scored his 9th, Evans his 6th and both Brandon Masson and Curtis Roach scored their first ever SJHL goals.
The 2 other goals on Saturday came from Chris Rauckman who picked up his 30th and 31st of the season to take over the league lead. Rauckman's second goal was short handed and he almost completed the hat trick in the third period with another short handed effort, when he broke in alone but Dawson MacAuley made the break away save.
Saturday was an interesting game with Yorkton opening up the scoring mid way through the first period, when Gatzke fooled Simon Hofley with a wrist shot , picking a nice spot undrneath his left shoulder.
The Bombers responded and had a 4-2 lead early in the second, only to see the Terriers storm back to actually take a 5-4 lead late in the frame to quiet the Whitney faithful. The Bomber bench looked stunned and you could see the look of disapointment on the players faces.
Flin Flon shook it off and got their biggest goal of the game when Austn Evans out waited starting goalie Matt Kustra and fired a shot right under the bar to tie the game at 5, with less than 2 minutes left in the second period.
The Bombers chased Kustra from the game and took all the momentum into the third period and were able to out score Yorkton 3-0 en route to the 8-5 victory.
With the 2 wins Flin Flon improves to: 23-8-5-5 and remain 1 point behind Nipawin for second spot in the Sherwood with 2 games in hand. The Bombers are tied with Notre Dame for 5th overall and do have a game in hand.
Flin Flon is on a roll winning 8 out of their last 10 games including 6 straight at home, and will get their biggest test so far of 2015 when they play 4 games in 5 nights all on the road starting Tuesday in Nipawin.
The Hawks lead the season series winning 3 of the 4 meetings, all coming in extra time. This could also be a first round playoff series preview , if these teams finish 4th and 5th and that looks like a good possibility.
No matter what go's down you will have the best seat in the house with all the action on 102.9 CFAR and flinflononline.com starting with the Murray GM Coach's Show at 7:15 from the Cage.
