Monsters battle back for 3-2 victory over Bruins
Feb 1, 2025The Cleveland Monsters beat the Providence Bruins 3-2 on Saturday night at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. With the win, the Monsters are now 24-13-3-3 and in third place in the AHL’s North Division standings.
The Bruins took the lead just 50 seconds into the first period with a goal from Joey Abate followed by a power-play tally from Max Jones at 9:22 pushing the score to 2-0. Rocco Grimaldi cut the lead with a goal on the man advantage at 15:02 off feeds from Stefan Matteau and Trey Fix-Wolansky bringing the score to 2-1 after 20 minutes. Dylan Gambrell tied the game at 8:50 of the middle frame with helpers from Fix-Wolansky and Stanislav Svozil sending Cleveland to the final intermission with the score 2-2. Jordan Dumais scored his first professional goal at 3:33 of the third period assisted by Matteau and Hunter McKown putting the Monsters ahead and securing the 3-2 win.
Cleveland’s Jet Greaves made 29 saves for the win while Providence’s Brandon Bussi stopped 30 shots in defeat.
The Monsters head to the All-Star Break with forward Trey Fix-Wolansky representing the team in Palm Springs at the 2025 AHL All-Star Classic presented by Spotlight 29 Casino. Follow the 2025 AHL All-Star Skills Competition presented by Spotlight 29 Casino and Silvercrest on Sunday, February 2, at 9:00 p.m. EST and the 2025 AHL All-Star Challenge presented by Spotlight 29 Casino on Monday, February 3, at 9:00 p.m. EST with full coverage on NHL Network and AHLTV on FloHockey.
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Scoring:
|
|
1st |
2nd |
3rd |
OT |
SO |
Final |
|
CLE |
1 |
1 |
1 |
- |
- |
3 |
|
PRO |
2 |
0 |
0 |
- |
- |
2 |
Shots/Special Teams:
|
|
Shots |
PP |
PK |
PIM |
|
CLE |
33 |
1/4 |
2/3 |
15 min / 6 inf |
|
PRO |
31 |
1/3 |
3/4 |
19 min / 8 inf |
Goaltenders:
|
|
Goaltender |
Outcome |
Saves |
GA |
Record |
|
CLE |
Greaves |
W |
29 |
2 |
13-7-4 |
|
PRO |
Bussi |
L |
30 |
3 |
8-9-1 |
Cleveland Record: 24-13-3-3, 3rd North Division
Providence Record: 24-14-4-1, 2nd Atlantic Division
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