It was a tough weekend for the Flin Flon Bombers who dropped both games to the Weyburn Red Wings by scores of 2-1 and 4-1.
On Friday, Flin Flon outshot the Wings 42 to 24 but only could put one puck past Wing netminder Angelo Zol.
Zol made a lot of highlight reel saves including a break away by local product Ryder Mucha and stopped Carter Anderson on several occasions.
Specialty teams were the difference with both Weyburn goals coming on the powerplay from Liam Fitzgerald and Cyprus Smith Davis. Carter Cormier also scored his third on the powerplay, but that was the only goal the Bombers could muster on Zol.
Kenny Marquart played his most complete game of the season and stopped 22 out of 24 but was short on offensive support.
On Saturday, the Wings came out and played a lot better and put the Bombers in a big hole, taking a 3 to 0 lead into the third period.
Braigh LeGrandeur, Drew Molde and Ethan Dekay scored the goals for the Wings and looked like they were in control of the game.
Flin Flon had a great third period and outshot the Wings 19 to 9 but, once again had a hard time getting any offense going. Koen Senft did manage to redirect a shot past Dazza Mitchell for his team leading 6th of the year, but they couldn't draw any closer.
Blake Betson would seal the deal with an empty netter as the Wings remain red hot, winning their 7th straight game while Flin Flon dropped their third straight.
The Bombers have only scored three goals in those losses and only one goal has been 5-on-5 so offense is a concern. Flin Flon did get a little good news as Austin Parsons will be back in the lineup after serving his 5-game suspension.
Parsons should help with the offense and has three points including two goals in 7 games.
After the pair of losses this weekend the Bombers will fall to 5-6-1 and remain second in the Sherwood tied with Laronge and sit 8th overall. Weyburn improves to 7-4 and are one point behind second place Melville and two points behind Yorkton for first overall.
It doesn't get any easier for the Bombers as the first place Yorkton Terriers come to town tomorrow and are 8-3 and have scored a whopping 49 goals in those games to lead the league.
Flin Flon who are usually so good defensively have given up 40 goals in 12 games and are 10th in the league with goals against. Only Notre Dame and Nipawin have given up more.
This will be the second meeting of the year between the Terriers and Bombers with Yorkton winning on home ice 4 to 1 back on October the 1st.
We will broadcast the game on Flo and our next broadcast on radio will be on Saturday against the Humboldt Broncos.
