A huge weekend coming up at the Whitney Forum as the Flin Flon Bombers fresh off a 3 to 0 win in Melfort on Wednesday will host the Battleford Stars.

 

The Bombers who are number one  in the country will host the number eight  ranked team and defending champions. Matter of fact,  this is Battleford's first visit since winning the championship on Forum ice last April.

 

The two teams did meet for a very entertaining weekend of hockey in Battleford January the 26th and 27th,  with the Bombers squeezing out a pair of wins including that exciting 5 to 4 OT win on the 26th.

 

Battleford makes their way to town winners of 7 of their last 10 and sit second overall at 32-9-3-1, 12 points behind the front running Bombers. Kian Bell continues to be quite the story and will hit Flin Flon with a staggering 73 points in 31 games.

 

Ben Portner has also caught fire and enters the weekend fourth in overall scoring tied  with the Bombers Jacob Vockler with 60 points a piece.

 

Flin Flon has 5 players in the top ten in league scoring including Justin Lies, Jacob Vockler, Alexi Sylvestre, Noah Houle and Carter Anderson.

 

Flin Flon certainly has lots of fire power but it may be the goaltending that has taken centre stage. Harmon Laser Hume is fresh off a 33 save shut out against Melfort to give him three on the year. His team mate Kenny Marquart has four  for a team combined seven.

 

They rank number one and two in most goaltending categories with Marquart owning the best gaa of 1.59, and Laser Hume is at 1.99.

 

Flin Flon is also the only team in the league that hasn't given up at least 100 goals against this season. The Bombers have only given up 84 goals in 44 games while the next closest team is Melfort with 134 against in 46 games.

 

No doubt it will feel like a playoff atmosphere and you know Battleford wants to spoil the party after dropping both games to the Bombers in late January. You also want confidence that you can win at the Whitney Forum if you do meet up in the post season.

 

We are on Flow TV tonight and back on radio tomorrow. You can catch the Great North GM Coach's Show at 7:10 and drop of the puck for Creighton Furniture at 7:30.