(Photo courtesy: Byron Fichter photography // Estevan Bruins Twitter) For the first time since 1998-1999, the Estevan Bruins are the champions of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League. The Bruins shutout the Flin Flon Bombers 2-0 in Game 7 of the final on Friday night, thanks to a 29 save performance from Boston Bilous, who had […]
The Flin Flon Bombers kept the SJHL Championship a homer series, winning Game 6 at the Whitney Forum 6-1 over the Estevan Bruins on Tuesday night, forcing a Game 7 Friday night in Estevan. After a scoreless opening period, the Bombers racked up three straight in the second frame, thanks to Drew Kuzma, Xavier Lapointe […]
After trailing Game 5 of the SJHL Final 2-0 for much of the night, the Estevan Bruins tied the game with five seconds left in the game, and won it in overtime, battling for a 3-2 series lead. Jaeden Mercier and Zak Smith scored first period goals for Flin Flon and they led 2-0 after […]
After dropping the first two games of the SJHL Championship series in Estevan, the Flin Flon Bombers held serve on home ice, following up Tuesday’s 4-3 win with a convincing 7-1 decision in Game 4 on Wednesday, tying the Best-of-Seven series up at 2-2. Jaeden Mercier scored twice and added an assist to lead Flin […]
Brett Wieschorster scored on a powerplay with 58 seconds left in regulation giving the Flin Flon Bombers a 4-3 win over the Estevan Bruins in Game 3 of the SJHL Final on Tuesday, cutting the Bruins’ lead in the Best of Seven down to 2-1. The Bombers led 3-1 late in the second period before […]
Thanks to a rare late April snow storm, Game 2 of the SJHL Championship had to survive a pair of lengthy delays, an hour at the start of the game, and about half that again near the end of the first period. But through all that adversity, it was the Estevan Bruins coming out on […]
The Estevan Bruins have the early edge in the SJHL Championship series after doubling up the visiting Flin Flon Bombers 4-2 in Friday’s series opener. The Bruins had been off for 15 days while the Bombers were away from action for 10. Estevan captain Eric Houk opened the scoring with the only goal of the […]
The Flin Flon Bombers will be spending a good chunk of the next month plus in Estevan, as the Bombers advanced to the SJHL final with Tuesday night’s 1-0 win over the Humboldt Broncos, beating out the league’s second seed in five games, and moving onto the championship against the first place Estevan Bruins. With […]
(Photo courtesy: humboldtbroncos.com ) The Humboldt Broncos extended their season on Saturday night, thanks to a 3-2 overtime win in Flin Flon in Game 4 of their SJHL Semi-Final series. Bronco captain Kade Olsen (1g-1a) (pictured) scored 4:16 into overtime to cut Flin Flon’s lead in the series to 3-1. Humboldt had a 2-0 lead […]
(Photo courtesy: WHL.ca) Yorkton product Nolan Maier got his junior hockey start in the SJHL with his hometown Terriers as a 16-year-old back in 2017-18, but was quickly off to the next level, joining the Blades that very same season, going 23-17-2 at only 16 years of age on a team that didn’t make the […]
