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The Flin Flon Xtreme Hockey School hits a milestone this week as it celebrates 15 years in the community. The school, run by Flin Flon Bombers head coach and GM Mike Reagan, is the longest running hockey school in northern Manitoba.

It’s back! Hockey season is just around the corner and the Flin Flon Bombers have already begun to prepare. Main camp will be getting underway shortly with preseason games to follow.

Upgrades are on their way to four Saskatchewan campgrounds this summer as water and electrical systems will be improved.

With league parity at a disappointing low, is it time for the CFL to consider scrapping the two-division system and going with a single group of nine teams? That’s the question TSN CFL analyst Chris Schultz pondered in an online column this week.

The Yorkton Terriers have seen five players from their RBC Cup championship graduate to post-secondary education, and now their assistant GM is moving on to the WHL.

• Victor Coleman, the real estate magnate hoping to bring an NHL team to Seattle, says he is one step closer to his goal.

You would think that after two fan-infuriating lockouts in less than a decade, NHL general managers would have learned their lesson. But ohhh no.

When teams with names such as the Doughboys and French Ticklers compete, you know not to take the hockey too seriously.

Jamie Benn or Evgeni Malkin? Carey Price or Tuukka Rask? Drew Doughty or Taylor Hall? These are among the impossible questions facing voters in TSN’s That’s Hockey’s Franchise Faceoff.

Former Flin Flon Bombers are making their way through NHL camps as of recent. Former forward Cole Wilson joins the slew of Bombers to advance in their hockey careers.