Monsters Fall 4-2 In Grand Rapids To Split The Weekend
Jan 18, 2025The Cleveland Monsters fell to the Grand Rapids Griffins 4-2 on Saturday night at Van Andel Arena. With the loss, the Monsters are now 22-12-1-3 and in third place in the AHL’s North Division standings.
Both squads had a tally through 20 minutes as Cleveland’s Samuel Knazko opened the scoring at 5:18 of the first period with Rocco Grimaldi and Justin Pearson grabbing assists on the play. Grand Rapids answered at 10:58 of the period as Sheldon Dries snuck one in to make it 1-1 after 20 minutes. The Griffins added two more goals in the middle frame from Tim Gettinger at 2:09 and Dominik Shine at 11:45 to hand Grand Rapids a 3-1 lead that they carried into the second break. Hunter McKown made it a 3-2 game at 13:45 of the third period off feeds from Roman Ahcan and Max McCue, but was offset by Griffins’ forward Elmer Söderblom scoring on an empty net at 19:16 to give Grand Rapids the 4-2 win.
Cleveland’s Jet Greaves made 25 saves in defeat while Grand Rapids’ Sebastian Cossa stopped 24 shots for the win.
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Scoring:
|
|
1st |
2nd |
3rd |
OT |
SO |
Final |
|
CLE |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
|
GR |
1 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
Shots/Special Teams:
|
|
Shots |
PP |
PK |
PIM |
|
CLE |
26 |
0/2 |
1/1 |
2 min / 1 inf |
|
GR |
29 |
0/1 |
2/2 |
4 min / 2 inf |
Goaltenders:
|
|
Goaltender |
Outcome |
Saves |
GA |
Record |
|
CLE |
Greaves |
L |
25 |
3 |
12-6-3 |
|
GR |
Cossa |
W |
24 |
2 |
12-7-4 |
Cleveland Record: 22-12-1-3, 3rd North Division
Grand Rapids Record: 22-12-3-1, 1st Central Division
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