FSJ hockey players assist SJHL team’s path to league championship, nationals

FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — The Flin Flon Bombers are the 2025-26 Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) champions, with an assist coming from a pair of local players.

Both Reid Arberry and Landon Alexander contributed to the Bombers’ first SJHL title, the Canterra Seeds Cup, in 33 years in late April.

The win meant the club advanced to the National Junior ‘A’ Championship, the Centennial Cup in Summerside, P.E.I., from May 7th to May 17th, 2026.

Flin Flon won two of four round-robin games, coming up just short of the medal round.

The brother of Fort St. John Huskies’ captain Grayden Alexander, the 20-year-old Alexander had 12 goals and 22 assists for 34 points in 42 games with the Bombers this season, adding two goals and three assists for five points in five playoff contests.

The younger Alexander told Energeticcity.ca about what he saw as the turning point of the season, in which the Bombers lost six of seven games in mid-to-late October.

“[Coach] Mike Reagan had us running the hills,” said Landon. “He was working us, because he knew we had to be better.”

“After we got over that hump of the losing streak, I feel like it was all uphill from there. Everything just seemed to click after that.”

As for Arberry, he went from playing just 17 games in his first SJHL season to a personal-best 52 regular-season games in his final junior year, with 23 goals and 28 assists for 51 points, adding five goals and nine assists for 14 points in 15 playoff games.

Arberry has committed to Edmonton’s Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) for next season.

He told Energeticcity.ca it was a matter of “trusting the process” and having faith his time to play would come.

“This year was a phenomenal year for me,” Arberry said. “I did really well. Our team won the league, so there’s nothing I can complain about there.”

He called hoisting the Canterra Seeds Cup with Landon a “special moment” for both players and Huskies’ coach Todd Alexander – himself a former Bomber, describing it as “full circle.”

“[I felt] we are going to be able to go home, and Todd’s going to be proud of us for doing this,” said Arberry. “That’s the culture we build here. Our motto is ‘once a Bomber, always a Bomber.’ It was pretty neat to have Landon make the team last year, and then this year we got the job done.”