Butte Irish head to Sheridan in first road trip of the new season

The new season began early for the Butte Irish who dropped a pair of games to the Gillette Wild on September 15-16 on home ice. Now after a week with no games and an opportunity to work and improve the team faces their first road trip of the year.

Butte Irish will make the 355-mile trek east to Sheridan on Friday to face the Hawks in a pair of NA3HL Frontier Division games. Both will stream live on NAHLtv.

Sheridan Hawks (0-4-0-0) have had a tough start to their season. After dropping a pair to the Bozeman Icedogs opening weekend the Hawks hosted Helena Bighorns last weekend and did not fair any better. Helena outscored the Hawks 12-3 in the two games to remain unbeaten while Sheridan is on a four-game slide to begin the new season.

Second-year forward Patrick Crooks got off to a strong start to the new season scoring twice while adding a pair of helpers against Gillette. Rookie Brennen Morgan showed some offensive prowess scoring in each of the first two games as well.

Andrew Browe, a 19-year old from California, scored the other Irish goal in game two. Browe was acquired in a trade with the New Mexico Ice Wolves (NA3HL) where he put up 11 points in 30 games played last season.