By Kevin Scott

GREAT FALLS, Mont., October 6, 2011 — Great Falls has a new hockey team this winter. Junior ice hockey league, the Great Falls Americans have begun their first season and are ready show off their hard work.

This season head coach Matt Frank recruited hockey players that on -average have been playing since they were 4-years-old.

“Last summer and spring I went out to a lot of showcases in Denver, Las Vegas, Detroit and scouted these guys for many month, talked to their parents and finally got them to sign on the dotted line,” Frank said.