The Flin Flon Bombers will be back in action after a 7 day break as they prepare for a Sherwood Division foe in the Nipawin Hawks.

The Bombers are 1-1 after splitting the opening weekend with Melfort. The Hawks are 0-2 after dropping a pair to Laronge.

Nipawin will be in action tonight when they take on Weyburn at home. The Bombers should be well rested and look forward to getting back on the ice tomorrow.

Mike Reagan had this to say about Saturday's matchup with Nipawin: "We have a pretty good idea of what Nipawin has right now. Doug is making changes there as well and trying to make his team better so there might be a few players there we are not familliar with. But we had a good look at them in the preseason and are excited about the matchup."

The one thing that jumps out at me is the number of penalties that Nipawin has taken in the first 2 games of the season. The Hawks 81 minutes in 2 games leads the league by a pretty wide margin. Yorkton is second with 58.

Flin Flon, who were one of the highest scoring teams last season try to get their offense in gear with only 2 goals so far in the first 2 games. Brett Boehm - last year's SJHL rookie of the year who scored 25 goals is still on the mend and his status for this weekend is still unknown.

Game time is 7:30 and will be the first regular season meeting since last spring's emotional playoff series when the Bombers beat the Hawks in 6 games. Both teams will look a little different, but I doubt that will hurt this rivalry very much.

Both coach's suited up for their respective clubs back in the day and are very firey competitors who hate to lose.

The 2 teams split their pre season games with the Hawks winning 4-3 in their building and the Bombers returned the favour 7-3 at the Whitney Forum.

Don't forget to bring your radios as CFAR and flinflononline.com will hit the air at 7:10.