If the Flin Flon Bombers don't know much about the Kindersley Klippers now, they will soon.
These two teams will collide and play each other 4 times in the next week including a pair of game at the Whitney Forum this weekend.
Kindersley comes to town at 4-5-1 and took it on the chin in Nipawin on Wednesday losing 8 to 2. The Bombers dropped their last game this past Tuesday in Melfort 2 to 1 in OT.
Despite a number of injuries the Bombers have started the season well at 7-3-1 and find themselves second in the UPL Division and fourth overall with 15 points.
Both these teams have similar numbers this year with the Bombers scoring 39 goals in 11 games while they have given up 27. Kindersley has scored 30 goals in 10 games while they have given up 34.
Neither team has a player in the top 20 in scoring and need to score by committee. The Klippers are led offensively by Pryce Theissen who has 10 points and Konnor Watson who they picked up in the off season from Nipawin.
Watson has 9 points including a team leading 6 goals.
The Bombers are led offensively by Hudson Brehaut who is off with an injury right now and still leads the team in goals with 5 and points 9.
The defense has stepped up offensively as Brayden Bruce and new comer Dylan Caron have combined for 17 points. Caron has also been sidelined by an injury and is listed as day to day.
No question one of the big reasons for Flin Flon's decent start has been the play of their goaltender Finn Werner. Every time that Werner starts a game they have a chance to win.
Werner almost stole the game in Melfort on Tuesday and if it wasn't for some late penalties the Bombers could of very well left Melfort with the two points.
Werner is 7-3-1 on the season with two shut-outs and a GAA of 2.24 and Save % of .925.
Mattias Radke is the Kindersley starter and he has decent numbers with a 3-5 record and a 3.21 GAA to go along with a save % of .906.
This will be the first meeting between the two teams since last January when all hell broke loose and their were multiple fights and ejections which led to multiple suspensions.
That was the game that then local product Joey Lies suffered a bad high stick to the face and missed multiple games. It will be interesting to see if this is still fresh on players minds and boils over this weekend or the next four games.
Flin Flon has had their way with Kindersley the last few years and took 3 of the 4 games last year and have won 13 of the last 16 matchups. Kindersley is also 0 and 8 at the Whitney Forum over that time.
Saying that it is a new year and the Bombers are pretty banged up heading into the weekend.
Games are set to go at 7:30pm tonight and tomorrow and you can catch tomorrow night's game on 102.9 CFAR and flinflononline.com beginning with the Great North GM Coach's Show at 7:10 and play by play for Creighton Furniture at 7:30pm.
