Monsters battle until the end in 5-4 loss to Stars
Mar 15, 2025The Cleveland Monsters fell to the Texas Stars 5-4 on Saturday night at H-E-B Center at Cedar Park. With the loss, the Monsters are now 28-20-5-5 and in fourth place in the AHL’s North Division standings.
Jordan Dumais opened the scoring at 12:52 of the first period with an assist from Hunter McKown, but Texas’ Chase Wheatcroft responded at 17:16 leaving the teams tied 1-1 after 20 minutes. The Stars pushed ahead with a power-play from Matěj Blümel just 46 seconds into the middle frame followed by a marker from Matthew Seminoff at 8:11. Rocco Grimaldi responded with a power-play goal at 11:58 off feeds from Luca Del Bel Belluz and Trey Fix-Wolansky making it 3-2. Texas’ Blümel scored again on the man advantage at 14:55, but Drew Bavaro picked up his first goal as a Monster at 18:50 assisted by Samuel Knazko and Grimaldi sending the teams to the final intermission 4-3. Max McCue tied the game with a marker at 7:03 of the third period off a feed from Roman Ahcan and Justin Pearson, but Blümel completed the hat trick at 19:14 bringing the final score to 5-4 for Texas.
Cleveland’s Pavel Cajan made 27 saves in defeat while Texas’ Magnus Hellberg stopped 32 shots for the win.
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Scoring:
|
|
1st |
2nd |
3rd |
OT |
SO |
Final |
|
CLE |
1 |
2 |
1 |
- |
- |
4 |
|
TEX |
1 |
3 |
1 |
- |
- |
5 |
Shots/Special Teams:
|
|
Shots |
PP |
PK |
PIM |
|
CLE |
36 |
1/3 |
2/4 |
20 min / 6 inf |
|
TEX |
32 |
2/4 |
2/3 |
18 min / 5 inf |
Goaltenders:
|
|
Goaltender |
Outcome |
Saves |
GA |
Record |
|
CLE |
Cajan |
L |
27 |
5 |
2-1-0 |
|
TEX |
Hellberh |
W |
32 |
4 |
21-10-1 |
Cleveland Record: 28-20-5-5, 4th North Division
Texas Record: 34-19-3-0, 2nd Central Division
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