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GF Tribune: Americans suffer rare loss at Ice Plex

By Steve Schreck, sschreck@greatfallstribune.com 

October 16, 2016

An eerie silence engulfed the Great Falls IcePlex on Saturday night.

Except for the visitors’ sticks banging against the boards in celebration and their bench yelling and screaming after puck after puck found the back of the net, the ice rink, filled with 842 faithful fans, was quiet, shocked.

They had never seen, at least in the past two seasons, their hockey team get beaten this badly, this soundly, with so few answers.

“We got every bit what we deserved,” said head coach Jeff Heimel said after Great Falls’ 7-3 loss to the Missoula Junior Bruins. “I felt like the stretches where we got goals scored against us, we weren’t working, we weren’t winning races, we were soft on the puck. They capitalized on every opportunity that we gave them.”

A night after scoring three unanswered in the third period to beat the Bruins 3-2, the Americans almost mounted an incredible rally on Saturday. But the Bruins held on, notching an impressive road win to improve to 3-4-0-1 overall. Great Falls dropped to 6-2-1-1. Read More>