Monsters come up short in 4-1 loss to Checkers

Feb 10, 2024

The Cleveland Monsters fell to the Charlotte Checkers 4-1 on Saturday night at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. With the loss, the Monsters are now 26-15-2-1 and are currently in second place in the AHL’s North Division standings.

 

The Checkers had control of the first period with a goal from Ryan McAllister at 4:24 and a power-play tally from Wilmer Skoog at 7:39 leaving the Monsters trailing 2-0 after 20 minutes. Trey Fix-Wolansky put the Monsters on the board after notching a marker at 1:21 of the middle frame with helpers from Stanislav Svozil and Hunter McKown. Charlotte responded with goals from Matt Kiersted at 9:46 and Justin Sourdif at 18:57 sending Cleveland to the final intermission behind 4-1. Both teams were held scoreless in the third period keeping the final score at 4-1 in favor of the Checkers.

 

Cleveland’s Pavel Cajan made 42 saves in defeat while Charlotte’s Spencer Knight stopped 26 shots for the win.

 

The Monsters finish their 10 game homestand with a visit from the Grand Rapids Griffins on Tuesday, February 12, at 7:00 p.m. at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. Follow the games with full coverage on FOX Sports 1350 ‘The Gambler’, AHLTV and the Monsters Hockey Network.

 

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Scoring:

	1st	2nd	3rd	OT	SO	Final
CLE	0	1	0	-	-	1
CLT	2	2	0	-	-	4

 

Shots/Special Teams:

	Shots	PP	PK	PIM
CLE	27	0/2	2/3	6 min / 3 inf
CLT	46	1/3	2/2	4 min / 2 inf

 

Goaltenders:

	Goaltender	Outcome	Saves	GA	Record
CLE	Cajan	L	42	4	5-5-1
CLT	Knight	W	26	1	15-12-4

Cleveland Record: 26-15-2-1, 2nd North Division

Charlotte Record: 23-20-4-0, 5th Atlantic Division

 

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