The Flin Flon Bombers dressed some vets last night and found their groove offensively with a 7 to 3 win over their Northern rivals,  the Laronge Ice Wolves in pre season action at the Whitney Forum.

 

Local product Ryder Mucha scored his first of the pre season just 38 seconds into the game and the Bombers never looked back.

 

Keaton Lesperance held the hot hand and had a 4 point game including two goals and two assists. Luca Martyniuk, Hank Thompson, Nathan Lalumiere and Noah Larre with his team leading third goal of the pre season all found the back of the net for the Bombers.

 

Everett Merchant responded with a pair for the Wolves, with the other Laronge goal coming from William Knox.

 

Flin Flon outshot Laronge 47 to 34 with the Bombers Josh Wu stopping 15 of 16 shots before making way for Joseph Mitchell who ended up with 16 saves on 18 shots.

 

Laronge used both their returning goalies from last year with Gabriel Poitras stopping 27 out of 33 before Riley Zezel came in to make 13 saves on 14 shots.

 

Specialty teams were a big part of the story from last night's game with the Bombers going 3 for 7 on the powerplay, while the Wolves were 0 for 5.

 

The game did get off to a late  start due to some problems with the Laronge bus, but the good news is they made it to Flin Flon safely and were able to play the game.

 

Flin Flon improves to 3-0 in the Pre Season and will finish off a busy week with a home and home with the Northern Manitoba Blizzard this Thursday and Friday.

 

Thursday's game is in the Pas at the Roy H Johnston Arena with a 7pm start time with Friday's game at the Whitney Forum with puck drop at 7:30pm.

 

You will be able to listen to Friday's game on 102.9 CFAR and flinflononline.com beginning with the Great North GM Coach's Show at 7:10 and drop of the puck at 7:30pm.