The Flin Flon Bombers will put their 6-2 record on the line this weekend as they step back on the ice to face the Melfort Mustangs and Yorkton Terriers at the Whitney Forum.
The Mustangs make their first visit to the Flon tonight and have been impressive out of the gate. Melfort is 6-3 and look like they will be strong in goal again this year.
New Comer Luke McKechnie looks solid at 4-2 with a GAA of 1.82 and a save % of .932.
Backup Nick Kotai is no slouch either and is 2-1 with a GAA of 3.27.
The Mustangs are very fast and skilled up front and should poise a big challenge for Flin Flon tonight.
Melfort was the only team in the league to come into Flin Flon and beat the Bombers at the Forum in the regular season last year, and I am sure that is fresh on a lot of the players minds.
It is always a great matchup between these two teams and I am looking forward to puck drop at 7:30pm tonight.
Flin Flon will also get a good test tomorrow night too with the Yorkton Terriers making their first trip to Flin Flon since last year's Canterra Seeds Cup League Final.
These two teams did meet in Yorkton back on October 3rd with Yorkton skating to the 6 to 3 victory. That was the final game for the Bombers on their Southern road swing and I expect the Bombers to have more jump and stronger legs for tomorrow's game.
Saying that, Yorkton is a good team and you have to give Head Coach Emery Olauson credit for putting together another solid squad.
They had some big pieces to replace after losing Gabriel Courchesne and William Leonard to the BCHL. Others have stepped up and they have arguably the league's best defenseman in Thomas Ries who has 8 points in 8 games.
Yorkton is 4-3-1 and have scored 34 goals in 8 games but have also given up 33. The key for the Bombers will be to get off to a good start, it was a rough opening period that hurt them in Yorkton a few weeks back.
Flin Flon heads into the weekend banged up and will not have Brenden Phelps, Keaton Lesperance, Ben Shaw , Wyatt Stinton and Nash Holmes in their lineup.
Captain Landon Alexander continues to skate and the Bombers are hoping that he can make his much awaited season debut this weekend. We will see the new acquisition Gabriel Kaminski who was just acquired from the Humboldt Broncos.
Kaminski had 2 goals in 7 games for the Broncos and should add some depth to the Bomber forward group.
No radio broadcast tonight, but we will have tomorrow night's game against Yorkton with the Great North GM Coach's Show at 7:10pm and drop of the puck at 7:30pm.
