Saturday nights game:
Goaltenders Justin McDonald and Devin Buffalo stole the show Saturday night. Both net minders were huge for their hockey clubs but in the end Justin McDonald made one more save in the shootout to pick up 2 very important points for the Kindersley Klippers.
Flin Flon opened the scoring in the 1st period on a power play riffle by Dillan McCombie and after that we didn't see a goal until the 3rd frame. Kindersley was throwing everything they had towards Buffalo, and it was starting to look like they weren't going to solve him. Buffalo made a ridiculous desperation glove save on Austin McDonald early in the 3rd period to keep the shutout bid alive for the time being. A few shifts later Kindersley generated almost an identical play on a 2 on 1 and this time McDonald made no mistake. He was stopped on the 1st chance but the 2nd attempt he lifted the rebound over top of Buffalo's pad to tie the contest at 1 at the 15:31 mark. It was a a nice passing play to set up the goal as McGrath took a hit to make the 1st pass over to Wheaton King, who then feather a beauty cross ice to McDonald.
The rest of regulation and overtime would solve nothing and a shootout was needed.
McCombie scored on the Bombers 2nd attempt with Kindersley failing to score on their 1st two chances which set up an oppurtunity for Jesse Mysiorek to win the game against his former club. He came in and was stopped by McDonald which gave Kindersley another chance as Geislinger would score to send the shootout to extras. 4th round solved nothing, and McDonald would stop Weldon on the Bombers 5th chance. That paved the way for Beau Stewart to win the game against his former club and Stew Nasty did just that to snap a six game losing skid for his hockey team. Kindersleys last win prior to Saturday night actually came in a shootout aswell back on November 28th.
Sunday night rematch:
Sundays game was the total opposite of Saturday, it was a high scoring affair that saw Flin Flon knock off Kindersley by a score of 6-5.
Just like he did on Saturday night, McCombie opened the scoring for the Bombers with his 20th of the sesaon 8:59 into the 1st period. The first ten minutes were really controlled by the Bombers but Kindersley turned the tide and took over after Flin Flon took the 1 goal lead. Kyle Davies would whack home a rebound on the power play at the 12:52 mark to knot things at 1. Shortly after Kindersley would take the lead as Brett Blatz jumped up in the rush for a 2-on-1. He had the option to pass but instead he kept and riffled one past Desautels for his 2nd of the season.
In the 2nd period Kindersley fell asleep and the Bombers came out with a ton of jump. Flon would score 3 times in the frame to take a 4-2 lead into the intermission. Goals in the frame were scored by Balaski, Litke, and McCombie.
The see saw battle continued into the 3rd frame with Kindersley drawing to within one as Travis Geislinger would finish off a beautiful pass from Trent Hermary. The one goal deficit was short lived however as McCombie would record his hat trick marker to take back the 2 goal lead. In terms of McCombie, wow is this kid good. He is still only 16 years of age and has 22 goals now on the season. He turns 17 on December. 29th.
The Bombers would strike again as Dylan Balaski made a lil dipsy doodle around Justin McDonald to give the Bombers a 3 goal lead 9:44 into the period. Everyone in the building likely thought that was it for Kindersley but Bradley Buckingham caught fire and would score 2 goals to put Kindersley within 1. Buckingham was great for Kindersley all night long, he had a fight in the 2nd period, he picked up an assist on Geislingers goal and of course scored 2 of his own. That is what you call a Gordie Howe hat trick with a lil extra on top.
Buckinghams 2nd goal came at the 13:53 mark which gave Kindersley some time to try and tie things up. A couple big saves in the dieing sequence from Desaultels prevented the comeback bid from happening as the Bombers would skate away with a 6-5 victory. For the Bombers they now head into the Christmas break sitting 3rd in the Bauer Standings. Kindersley on the other hand will wrap up 2011 tomorrow night when they host Humboldt as Taylor Duzan returns to Kindersley.
Overall it was a positive weekend for Kindersley as they showed they can compete with one of the league elite squads.
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