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Late Collapse Costs B'S

The Flin Flon Bombers scored 3 times in the first period and appeared to have the Estevan Bruins on the ropes last night at Affinity Place.

 

Boehm, Evans and Bell all scored in the opening period and Flin Flon appeared to be on their way to their 24th victory of the season.

 

Longpre scored for the Bruins early in the second period, to get Estevan on the board at 3-1. Michael Knaub came back with his 6th of the season to restore the 3 goal lead for the Bombers and put his team up 4-1.

 

The turning point of the night for me was when  Longpre would get his second of the night, deflecting a shot past Simon Hofley to get the Bruins within 2 after 2.

 

This goal motivated the Bruins, coming out for the third and they continued to chip away at the lead making it a 1 goal game, when Pastachak  buried his  11th at the  14:13 mark.

 

The Bruins would get the equalizer only 21 seconds later when Keegan Allison would get his team leading 17th of the season.

 

That would set the stage for over time for the Bombers for a second straight night, and once again found themselves short handed to start the extra frame.

 

It took Allison just 31 seconds to make the Bombers pay when he scored his second of the game and 18th of the year as the Bruins came back to shock the Bombers 5-4 in OT.

 

The League's best power play could not take advantage of the league's worst penalty killing unit as Flin Flon went 0 for 3 with the extra attacker, while Estevan finished up 2 for 6 including the game winner.

 

 

This one really had to sting as Flin Flon were by far the better team, but somehow managed to let this one slip through their fingers. I don't think any one was expecting the Bombers to cough up a 3 goal lead.

 

The Bomber record on this road trip will fall to 0-0-1-1, and really should be 2-0 as they did outplay Nipawin on Tuesday as well, but you don't always win despite being the better team.

 

Flin Flon will get a day off before resuming the road trip tomorrow in Weyburn with all the action on 102.9 CFAR and flinflononline.com, starting with the Murray GM Coach's Show at 7:15.

 

With the 1 point the Bombers received last night with the OT loss, they remain 1 point behind Nipawin for second in the Sherwood Division with a game in hand and sit 5th overall, 2 points up on Notre Dame.

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