The Flin Flon Bombers played two solid road games on the weekend and took four points in Humboldt at the Elgar Petersen Arena.
Most of the damage was done in the first period yesterday afternoon as the Bombers built up a 3 to 0 lead scoring goals in three different ways.
Luke Lepper opened the scoring on the powerplay for his fourth of the season firing a shot from the blue line to beat a screened Dazza Mitchell.
Carter Cormier then scored his 14th even strength when he took a beautiful pass from Ryder Mucha. Keefe Gruener followed that up with a short handed goal for his team leading 17th of the season.
Newly acquired Cade Kennedy who was brought in from Estevan scored for the Bronco's in his debut to cut the lead to 3 to 1 early in the second.
Reid Arberry would answer late in the second period taking advantage of some tired Bronco bodies on the ice to restore the three goal lead for his fourth marker of the year.
That score would hold up til the last minute of the game when Tyce Penrod took advantage of a Bomber turn over to score his first of the year, but it was to little to late as the Bombers took yesterday’s contest 4 to 2.
Matthew Kieper was great once again turning away 30 of 32 shots to pick up his 12th win of the season and has yet to lose in regulation since arriving from the WHL.
Dazza Mitchell who was the big story on Saturday night with an amazing 42 saves stopped 38 of 42 yesterday afternoon and suffered the loss.
Flin Flon was able to ride the momentum from a hard fought 2 to 1 win on Saturday on goals from new comer Liam Hunks and Ryder Mucha, and are now unbeaten in 19 straight regulation games.
There are different guys stepping up each night and no question this team has very good chemistry and are playing with a lot of confidence.
The Bombers will take three of four from the Bronco’s this year and improve to an overall mark of 23-9-2-1, good for 49 points which is 4 up on Yorkton and 5 on Weyburn for second overall.
Humboldt will fall to 15-17-2 and hold on to the 8th and final playoff spot with 32 points.
Next up for the Bombers will be the red hot Kindersley Klippers who are 7-2-1 in their last ten games. The Klippers are coming off a dominating weekend against the Nipawin Hawks and sit 6th overall at 19-15-1-1.
Kindersley is just 3 points behind Battleford for fifth and 4 points back of Weyburn for fourth.
Both games will take place at the Whitney Forum on Friday and Saturday night at 7:30 and will mark the return of former Bomber Dawson Karol who is having a career season.
Karol has 18 goals in 35 games which has him ranked fifth overall in the league. You will be able to hear Saturday's game on 102.9 CFAR and flinflononline.com including the Great North GM Coach's Show at 7:10.
