The Flin Flon Bombers dropped their final game on their Southern road swing  in Yorkton this past Saturday by a score of 6 to 3 at the Westland Arena.

 

This was the first meeting between the two teams since the Bombers swept the Terriers in this past Springs Canterra Seeds Cup Final.

 

Mathys Morrissette opened up the scoring for Yorkton just 1:30 into the opening period, scoring on a nice back hander. Morrissette is actually the younger brother of former Bomber Crystopher Collin who suited up for Flin Flon between  2017 to 2019.

 

Ryder Mucha would reply for the Bombers on the powerplay just a few minutes later to tie the game at 1.

 

Yorkton would strike two more times before the first period was over with Alex Morrison and Nathan Ramos both finding the back of the net to put the home team up 3 to 1 after one.

 

Noah Martin got his first SJHL regular season start for the Bombers and was pulled after the first period after giving up 3 goals on 12 shots.

 

Finn Werner would come into the game and started the second period. Werner had started the first 5 games of the season for Flin Flon  and has been rock solid with a GAA of 1.77 and a Save % of .937.

 

Morrison was able to get his second of the night just 2:34 into the middle frame and this would stand up as the game winner.

 

Dylan Carron would score his second in as many games to get the Bombers within one once again, but that is as close as they would get this night. Dylan Brass scored just a few minutes later to restore the two goal lead for Yorkton at 5 to 3 entering the final period.

 

The two teams would exchange goals in the third period with home town product Ryder Mucha scoring his second of the night for the Bombers,  before Peter Godley put the game away with an empty netter.

 

Finn Werner stopped 26 out of 28 shots for Flin Flon coming in relief while  veteran Terrier netminder Callum Craig stopped 31 of 34 to pick up the win.

 

Even though the Bombers lost the game it was still a pretty decent road trip with the Bombers going 2-2. The trip began with a 4 to 2 loss in Melville on Tuesday and a 3 to 0 win over Weyburn on Wednesday and a 4 to 1 win over Estevan on Friday.

 

It was a very emotional road trip with the futures in the blockbuster trade with the Humboldt Broncos announced on Thursday. Humboldt had sent Goalie Charlie Tritt, Defenseman Ryder Knutson and Forward Connor Miller at last year’s trade deadline to help the Bombers push for a Championship. As we know it worked out pretty well with the Bombers winning their first League Championship in 33 years.

 

Thursday the futures were announced on who was  going to Humboldt, with three talented forwards making  their way to the Broncos including Jack Martin, Ryan Ulmer and Leo Seitz .

 

All three of these players were part of the squad that helped Flin Flon win the league last season  and all three will be able to step into Humboldt's lineup this year and help the Broncos compete for another League Championship.

 

Head Coach Cole McCaig had this to say about the deal. " We had a team meeting with the three players that were picked by Humboldt, it was very emotional with a lot of tears that were shed. We are losing three really good players who are also really good human beings. They have been great ambassadors in the community and they will be very tough to replace. We now need to move forward as a group,  and now we need to send a statement to the rest of the league that we are still one of the team's to get through to win this  league."

 

Now the work begins for the Bombers to try and find players to fill these spots which will not be easy as they are all tremendous players and people.

 

Flin Flon has made a key signing with the announcement of 2006 born forward Nathan Helfenstein who was a late cut of the Brookes Bandits.

 

Helfenstein comes from the U-21 Elite League in Switzerland and picked up 40 points in 47 games and will hopefully fill some of the offensive void with the loss of Seitz, Ulmer and Martin.

 

So after this past week’s Southern road trip the Bombers are 4-2 and sit in top spot in the UPL Division. The good news for the Bombers is they will play 6 of their next 7 games at home including a pair of games this weekend against the Estevan Bruins.

 

Games are set to go at 7:30 pm on both Friday and Saturday night.