The Flin Flon Bombers continue to roll and continue to dominate the competition after another 4 points at the Whitney Forum this past weekend.
The Notre Dame Hounds came to town and found themselves on the wrong scores of 5 to 1 and 4 to 1 Friday and Saturday.
Anthony Piccininno led the way with a pair of goals on Friday his 11th and 12th including a short handed goal to give the Bombers their 13th as a team this season.
Keefe Gruener added his 29th, Ryder Mucha his 5th and Koen Senft his 11th.
Maclean Cooney would score his first for Notre Dame and that was the only puck to make it past Kenny Marquart who ended up with 18 saves and picked up his 10th win.
Flin Flon scored 41 of 46 on Spencer Borsos who played his usual steady self.
On Saturday the Bombers kept coming and their top scorer Keefe Gruner picked up his league leading 30th of the year, when he beat youngster Kaden Perron early in the first period. Perron played exceptional for just his fourth start of the year and ended up with 47 saves.
The Bombers would get plenty of insurance from Carter Cormier who found the back of the net for his 19th and 20th, with Pierce Yakimchuk adding his 3rd.
It looked like Matthew Kieper would pick up his fourth shutout of the season, but former Bomber Evan Bossel grabbed a loose puck off a Bomber's stick and fired home his 8th of the year with less than two minutes remaining to spoil the shutout.
Kieper continues to be a league MVP candidate and is now 19-0-1-1 with a lights out save %of .944.
After the weekend Flin Flon will improve to 33-10-3-1 and continue to lead Weyburn by 10 points for second overall. The Wings do have a game in hand.
Notre Dame also lost in Nipawin 5 to 2 on Sunday and have now lost 11 in a row and are dead last in the standings at 11-31-2-2.
This weekend should be a good test for Flin Flon who will make their way to Yorkton and Melville, two playoff teams that are playing some good hockey.
Yorkton is 7-3 in their last ten and are fourth overall just one point behind the third place Weyburn Red Wings and both teams have played 46 games.
The Terriers have also beaten the Bombers in 2 of the 3 meetings this year and have been able to fight through a lot of adversity to prove that they are a top 4 team.
Melville just might be the hottest team in the league right now and are 9-1 in their last 10. They have vaulted right up the standings and have moved to within 6 points of Yorkton for fourth.
We will broadcast both games on 102.9 CFAR and flinflononline.com this weekend with the Great North GM Coach's Show at 6:40 and drop of the puck both nights at 7pm for Creighton Furniture.
