It is the weekend that everyone has been waiting for as the top two clubs in the SJHL will meet in a home and home this weekend.
The Flin Flon Bombers get ready to hit the road as they will travel to Melfort tonight and return the favour tomorrow.
The Mustangs continue to lead the standings at 40-7-1 good for 81 points while the Bombers remain second at 34-11-3-1 for 72 points. Melfort has only lost at home once in regulation this entire season and are an amazing 20-1-0-1 at the Palace.
That includes three wins against the Bombers with all those games early in the season 6 to 2 on September the 21st, 4 to 1 on October the 12th and 3 to 2 on October the 30th.
It was right after that October the 30th loss that the Bombers took off and managed to go 26 games without a regulation loss and vault right up the standings.
Flin Flon has also beat the Mustangs in all three meetings at the Whitney Forum this year including a 4 to 0 win in their last meeting on February the 1st.
This is a huge weekend for both teams and if the Bombers have any aspirations of finishing first they will need both wins this weekend. The Mustangs could pretty much wrap up first place if they take both games this weekend.
The Bombers also need to try and hold off Weyburn and Yorkton for second with the third place Red Wings 8 points behind Flin Flon and both teams have played 49 games. Yorkton is 9 points behind Flin Flon and have played 50 games.
Flin Flon is also hoping to have Wyatt Stinton and Kyle Marsden back from injury and both will be game time decisions tonight. Kylynn Olafson and Leighton Carruthers remain out indefinitely.
This promises to be a great weekend of hockey between these long time foes and both teams have very similar records heading into the weekend with the Mustangs 8-1-0-1 in their last ten while the Bombers are 7-2-1 in their last ten.
You can catch both games on 102.9 CFAR and flinflononline.com this weekend beginning with tonight's game from the Northern Lights Palace in Melfort.
We hit the air at 7:10 with the SJHL Coach's Show for Great North GM and drop of the puck at 7:30 for Creighton Furniture.
