Four straight goals powered the Bombers to a 4-2 victory over Weyburn Friday night, erasing an early deficit.
The Wings entered Friday's game having lost each of their first three games, but got a trio of big-name players back in the lineup. Forwards Jerome Maharaj and Jaxson Ruthven, both key players for last year's Wings team who left for other leagues, came back to play starting Friday night, along with 20-year-old forward Ethan Dekay.
Things were even for most of the first until the end of the period, when the Wings opened up a lead. In the final three minutes of the first, the Bombers went a man down and Max Chakrabarti made them pay the price, scoring his first SJHL goal on a blast through traffic to open the scoring. Less than a minute later, Weyburn's Josh Karman also found the twine, crashing the net right off its moorings and sliding the puck in during the chaos - while officials on the ice originally ruled "no goal", the striped overturned the call, putting Weyburn up two.
Flin Flon got on the board early in the second, with Carter Anderson getting a powerplay blast right past Weyburn netminder Dazza Mitchell, bringing Flin Flon within one. The Wings poured 16 shots on Urbani, but the B.C.-born rookie stopped every shot he saw in the frame, keeping the Bombers within one going into the third.
The Bombers' offence woke up in the third, with Anderson getting the game tied midway through the period on a spectacular individual effort, knocking the puck past three Weyburn defenders and Mitchell. The Bombers had what appeared to be a goal waved off moments later, but play continued and the puck kicked out to the point, where Ryder Ringor made the call elementary, putting a slapshot past Mitchell from way downtown and giving Flin Flon the lead.
Weyburn battled at times down the stretch, pulling Mitchell with about three minutes to go, but a late high-sticking call put the Wings a man down, putting Mitchell back in the goal and killing the home team's momentum. With barely a minute and a half to go, Keefe Gruener sealed the night for the Bombers by redirecting a shot by Anderson into the net. The Bombers, despite being outshot 40-28 on the evening, would get back on the bus with two points and just one game to go on their southern road swing.
Urbani got the win with a 38 save performance, while Mitchell made 24 saves on 28 Flin Flon shots.
The Bombers will wrap up their first southern road swing of the season with a game Saturday night against Estevan.
