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Bantams, midgets make regional teams

A number of young hockey hopefuls from Flin Flon will be suiting up for Norman teams this year. Six players from Flin Flon were named to this year’s Norman Northstars midget AAA roster on Aug.
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A number of young hockey hopefuls from Flin Flon will be suiting up for Norman teams this year.

Six players from Flin Flon were named to this year’s Norman Northstars midget AAA roster on Aug. 26, joining players from The Pas, Cross Lake, Thompson, Gillam, Norway House and Split Lake.

It is the highest number of players to join the team to start the season since the 2012-13 season, when seven Flin Flon players wore the team’s colours.

Defenceman Jordan Pfoh leads the class of Flin Flonners, returning to the team from last season. Pfoh is the only player of the group who played the entirety of last season with the team, scoring 16 points in 48 games as a 15-year-old rookie. Pfoh still has two more seasons of midget eligibility.

Three of the group played for a short time with last year’s Northstars team as affiliate players.

Blake Lahonen and Morgan Beauchamp, both forwards, and goalie Rylan Potkonjak will join the team having played a total of 12 combined games for the club.

Two other players, defenceman Brycen Francoeur and forward Morgan Daneliuk, will join the team for the first time.

All six players grew up playing minor hockey in Flin Flon. The five skaters – Beauchamp, Daneliuk, Francoeur, Lahonen and Pfoh – were integral parts of the bantam Bombers team that won a provincial bantam AA title in 2016-17.

Lahonen led the team with 64 points in 29 games.

In addition, Beauchamp, Francoeur, Lahonen, Pfoh and Potkonjak all attended last year’s Flin Flon Bombers training camp as underage prospects.

The Northstars weren’t the only northern Manitoba team to announce their roster for this upcoming season. The Norman Wolves bantam AAA team also named their team on Aug. 27, with three Flin Flon bantams joining the team.

Forwards Joey Lies and Magnus Pearson and goaltender Logan Salamondra have all made the cut, joining the north’s top bantam program.

Pearson played six games for the Wolves last year, earning no points.

Lies will join the same team that his older brother Justin played for last year. Justin led the team in goal scoring last year, tallying 39 goals in 35 games and ending with 62 points in total.

Justin capped the year by becoming the first Flin Flonner selected in the WHL Bantam Draft since 2005 and making the cut for Team Manitoba for this winter’s Canada Winter Games.

Lies and Pearson both played parts of last season with the Bombers bantam AA team, with Pearson tallying 18 points in 30 games and Lies notching four points in four games.

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