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By Kevin Scott
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BUTTE, Mont.., November 14, 2025 — The Great Falls Americans (11-7-1-1) have played six of their seven Frontier Division opponents after the first three month of the 2025-26 North American 3 Hockey League (NA3HL) season with just one team they haven’t faced until Friday. Great Falls traveled to Butte, Montana for a single contest against the Butte Irish (6-12-0-0).
Great Falls, moved up to third place after the Bozeman Ice Dogs fell on Friday, have won five of their last six games since October 24th with victories over their three Wyoming opponents (Sheridan Hawks, Yellowstone Quake and Gillette Wild). Great Falls is led in scoring this season by the duo of Cooper Clouse and Ethan Miller with 12 goals apiece. Clouse also had 19 assists after 20 contests.
Butte, who has six victories in 17 games, has been led by Easton Langemo (17 goals, 11 assists) and Jack Whitelaw also earning 11 assists for head coach Marc Brodeur’s squad. The Irish have two victories in their past six games.
The Great Falls Americans moved up to third place in the NA3HL’s Frontier Division by posting a 7-3 win over the Butte Irish during Friday’s road game at the Butte Community Ice Center in Butte, Montana. The Americans led 6-2 after two periods as Ethan Miller had a hat trick (3 goals and 1 assist), Reid Lezubski scored two goals before the second intermission and Cooper Clouse chipped in a goal and dished out three assists in the Americans eleventh win of the year.
Loghan Weber scored the first of this two goals of the game in the first stanza for the Irish as they took the early 1-0 lead 4:44 into the game with a helper from Zach Bucholt. Great Falls’s offense tacked on two goals before the first intermission as Reid Lezubski and Ethan Miller each buried the puck in the net. Ethan Miller, Reid Lezubski and Cooper Clouse provided the assists.
In the middle period, the visiting team scored four goals during the first 15 minutes with four different players adding goals to their resume including Reid Lezubski, Ehtan Miller, EJ Sanchez and Cooper Clouse. Clouse and Lezubski also assisted on two of the scoring plays for Great Falls. Colton Bacon, Gavin Denis and Gordon Jennings helped the puck in the net. Before the period concluded, Tyler Jones cut Butte’s deficit to 6-2 with his unassisted tally. Great Falls led in the shots-on-goal category, 31-28 through two periods.
Loghan Weber, who scored his seventh goal of the season in the first frame, scored midway through the third off the stick of Jack Whitelaw but that was as close as the Irish would get on the scoreboard. A few minutes, later, Ethan Miller lit up the lamp for the final scoring drive of the night.
Great Falls finished with one more shot (42-41) than the host team. Butte outshot the Americans, 29-23 after the first period.
All three (minor) penalties were called before the second intermission but there was no successful power play goals scored by either opponent.
Kaden Rhyder improved his record to 5-3-0-1 by allowing one goal in each period to end his night with 38 saves. Butte’s Zander Harp played 52 minutes before being replaced by backup goalie Billy Lavelle. Zander was credited with his seventh loss (3-7-0-0). Lavelle stopped all five shots while he was on the ice.
NOTES: During Saturday’s game (November 15th) against the Bozeman Ice Dogs, the Americans will celebrate their second “Toyota Night” with some promotional giveaaways occurring throughout the game. It is also Great Falls College MSU River Otter Night with students, staff and alumni of the college getting FREE tickets to the 7:05PM contest.
AMERICANS E-NEWSLETTERS: The Americans have two email newsletters for fans to receive in their inbox this season. Kevin Scott, the Americans Media Coordinator, has an Americans E-Newsletter that you can get on Sunday’s during the regular season filled with game summaries, press releases, links, schedule, etc. Click here to subscribe (if you haven’t already).
Americans Owner Matt Leaf creates and sends out a weekly email called “Baldy’s Puck Drop” that features team news, player profile, sponsor information and lots of other tidbits relating to Americans hockey that is published on Thursday mornings. Click here to receive the weekly newsletter (if you haven’t already).
NEXT CONTEST: The Great Falls Americans return to the Great Falls Ice Plex for the first time since October 25th when they hosted the Yellowstone (WY) Quake for a third encounter with the Bozeman Ice Dogs on Saturday, November 15th with the puck dropping at 7:05PM (MST) live on NATV. Bozeman leads the season series 2-0.
Old Chicago Pizza & Taproom (1101 7th Street South) is the place to be after Friday and Saturday night home games where the Americans invite their fans and supporters to their post-game dinner.
Buffalo Wild Wings, located at 17 Northwest Bypass in Great Falls, hosts the “Americans Watch Party” this season when the Americans are on the road. Fans are invited to get food and drinks and watch the game.
NATV is the NA3HL’s new streaming platform and is the place to catch all the action for fans that are unable to attend the home and away games this season. Click here to learn more about how to view any of the Americans home and away contests.
For complete schedules/results, promotions, team stats, rosters and much more information, please go to our official website: www.greatfallsamericans.com