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Bombers 2 Broncos 1

 

It didn't take long for Brett Boehm to make his presence felt at the Whitney Forum Sunday night. Boehm undressed the Humboldt defense and made a beautiful pass to Chris Rauckman who buried his 23rd of the season which turned out to be the game winning goal as the Bombers held off Humboldt 2-1.

 

This was the Bombers second win of the season over the Broncos, who had taken the last two meetings including a 3-2 victory in Humboldt December the 17th. The season series will end up 2-2.

 

Tonight was the much awaited return for Brett Boehm who made his  way back  to the team that he began his career with and he looked like the Brett Boehm of old, by making lots of slick moves all over the ice. No question, Boehm will be an attention grabber in any building that he suits up in for the rest of this season.

 

Curtis Roach , who was reassigned by the Prince Albert Raiders of the WHL, also made his Bomber debut and this is what Mike Reagan thought of theses two players performance in their Bomber debuts Sunday night. " I thought Roachie played very well for only playing 7 games this year, he has very good composure for a 17 year old who logged a lot of minutes. We used him a lot on both the power play and penalty kill. He is a big strong kid that is only going to get better." "As for Brett Boehm, he does what Brett Boehm does, he put the puck right on the goal line for Rauckman to score. He didn't even have to look, a blind monkey could score that goal, it was a great set up. It is going to take some time for them to form some chemistry and as soon as they have a chance to get in some practise time together I think you will see them do some great things."

 

 

It looked like Adam Beukeboom was going to pick up his fourth shut out of the season, but the Broncos were able to get on the board with only 7 seconds left in the game on a 6 on 4 situation. Humboldt were on the power play and also pulled their goalie. Marr redirected a shot past Beukeboom to spoil the shut out bid.

 

Flin Flon opened up the scoring late in the first period when Tyler Bell fired a slap shot past Brock Hamm on the power play with only 5 seconds left in the period for his fourth of the season.

 

With the win, the Bombers have won 3 in a row and are: 18-7-5-4 on the season and trail second place Nipawin by 3 points in the Sherwood Division with a game in hand.

 

Flin Flon will get a strong test Tuesday when the front running Melfort Mustangs come to town. The Mustangs have won 9 of their last 10 games and have a 15 point lead on Flin Flon for first in the division. Melfort have won 5 out of 6 meetings between the two teams this year including both games at the Whitney Forum.

 

Some unfortunate news , Mike Reagan confirmed that Tanner Lishchynski will not be returning to the team  as he has earned the right to stay with Kootenay for the rest of the year. Lishchynski was only supposed to fill in til the World JR'S  were over but Kootenay has been so impressed with his play that they have asked him to stay.

 

No broadcast of the game Tuesday, but we will be back on the air for the first time in 2015 when the Bombers host Notre Dame on Saturday.

 

 

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