More big news from the Flin Flon Bombers who continue to recognize valuable contibutors from the past for the SJHL Hall Of Fame Celebrations coming up in September.
Fresh off the announcement of leading all time scorer Tim Madarash going into the Hall, The Bombers will be inducting the 92-93 Championship Team.
This is one of the greatest teams in Bomber history who built a team on toughness, speed, grit and great goaltending, not to mention a lot of heart and a team that didn't know the meaning of the word quit.
The team was coached by none other than Norm Johnston who was already an established coach in the league with North Battleford and Yorkton, prior in coming to Flin Flon. Johnston was able to come in a build a winning program in three years and turn the team around financially.
The team featured four local players including Rob Beck who was able to earn a scholarship to Merrimeck College in Boston when his career was done, as well as Darren Johson, Shayne Hayes and Clarke Funk.
The legendary Mel Pearson helped Norm behind the bench with the Stallard's Dwight and Elvin serving as the team Trainers.
It all began with the Bomber's first playoff series win against Humboldt in a best of 5, and the team took off from there.
Flin Flon went on to beat Nipawin in the North Division Final 4 games to 1 and would face the heavily favoured Melville Millionaires for the SJHL Championship.
Melville was expected to win with only 11 losses the entire season, but someone forgot to tell the underdog Bombers and their fans that.
After dropping the first two games at the old Melville stadium, Flin Flon returned to a jam packed Whitney Forum and ended up tieing up the series at two.
People were arriving at the Whitney Forum at 5pm just to make sure they could get a seat with over three thousand people in attendance. The Forum hasn't seen the likes of that since, and they were standing three deep along all the rails.
The teams would continue to dominate on home ice and forced a game 7 at the Melville Stadium. Flin Flon went into the game and upset the Mills by a score of 4 to 2 including an empty netter from Rob Beck in what would be the last time the team won a championship till the current Bombers did it just a few weeks ago.
A total of 5 fan busses made their way to Melville to help cheer their team on and you really couldn't tell who the home team was. It was electric with all kinds of objects and debris being tossed onto the ice and it actually looked like a Biology Experiment as opposed to a hockey game at the conclusion of the game.
Flin Flon would go on to beat Dauphin of the MJHL in the Anavet Cup Championship series in 6 games and punched their ticket to the Centennial Cup in Amherst Nova Scotia to wrap up a very memorable season.
Congratulations to this tremendous group of players and coach's who definitely deserve to be recognized by the SJHL Hall Of Fame.
Not only did they win a championship, but took the weight of the community on their shoulders and were and are still heroes today.
The 92-93 team will be recognized during the SJHL Hall Of Fame celebrations September the 23rd at the Flin Flon Community Hall.
