Hawks head to Flin Flon in rescheduled matchup

Nipawin is winless against the Bombers this season including a 4-2 loss in their most recent game on Jan. 5. Flin Flon scored all four goals on the powerplay. Nipawin has only killed four of 10 penalties in a pair of games on the road to start the 2024 calendar year. The SJHL club still has the second ranked penalty killing group and second best ranking power-play, but those numbers aren’t leading to successive victories.

“We’re a high penalized team which obviously we’re not happy about, but we’ve been able to do the job. Maybe it’s catching up to us a little bit where we have to be more disciplined and stay out of the box,” Kozun said.

The Hawks have losses of 5-3, 3-2, and 4-2 against the Bombers this season. For the most part they have kept Flin Flon’s top scorers off the scoresheet outside Carter Anderson’s power-play hat-trick on Jan. 5. Kozun is confident his group can play with the nation’s top-ranked club.

“We have to go in with the same mindset of playing tight defensive hockey and keeping them to the outside and when they get an opportunity on the power-play we have got shut them down,” Kozun said.

Nipawin’s last win at the Whitney Forum was Feb. 15, 2022.

Faceoff is 7:30 p.m., the pregame show of Duplex Furniture and Appliances Hawks Hockey on 750 Beach Radio starts at 7:15 p.m.

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by Clark Stork

Hawks head to Flin Flon in rescheduled matchup

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