Sheridan Hawks Hockey Team Battling Some Road Weariness While Splitting Games At Butte

The Sheridan Hawks Junior Hockey team have been road warriors for the first part of this season.

They’ve played 11 of their first 14 games on the road and split a 2-game series at Butte this past weekend.

Being on the road as often as the Hawks have been, can sometimes make a team road weary, and Coach J.J. Santagata says while that can be an excuse to some extent, there were a few mistakes made at Butte that should not have been made at all.

“Right now, we’re just having defensive lapses, that we just normally don’t, so hopefully we come back home and we don’t have to use the excuse that we’re playing on the road. Keys to every single game are pretty simple for us. Just start quick and one thing we did not do Friday and Saturday was start quick, but luckily we ended well in that first period, and we played a solid second period, but then after that it was just 5 -on-4, penalty kill power play, really just couldn’t get into a groove 5-on-5 after that.”

Sheridan catches a little bit of a break on the schedule as the team returns home to face Rapid City this coming Friday and Saturday and have next weekend off from competition.

The schedule will eventually balance itself out, as the Hawks don’t play any road games in January and in the early part of February.