Monsters fall short in 4-2 loss to Americans

Nov 6, 2024

The Cleveland Monsters fell to the Rochester Americans 4-2 on Wednesday night at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. With the loss, the Monsters are now 4-4-0-1 and currently in sixth place in the AHL’s North Division standings.

 

Trey Fix-Wolansky scored first on the power play at 18:18 of the opening period with helpers from Dylan Gambrell and Denton Mateychuk putting the Monsters ahead 1-0 after 20 minutes. Rochester added two markers in the second frame from Graham Slaggert at 4:58 and Konsta Helenius on the man advantage at 15:46 leaving Cleveland trailing 2-1 heading into the final intermission. The Amerks tallied two more goals in the third period from Jiri Kulich on the power play at 3:54 and Aleksandr Kisakov at 6:45. Mateychuk added a late marker with seven seconds left to play assisted by Fix-Wolansky and Rocco Grimaldi, but it was not enough as the Monsters fell 4-2.

 

Cleveland’s Jet Greaves made 44 saves in defeat while Rochester’s Felix Sandstrom stopped 22 shots for the win.

 

The Monsters travel to visit the Utica Comets on Friday, November 9, at 7:00 p.m. at Adirondack Bank Center. Follow the games with full coverage on Fox Sports Radio 1350 The Gambler, AHLTV on FloHockey and the Monsters Hockey Network.

 

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Scoring:

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

 

Shots/Special Teams:

	Shots	PP	PK	PIM
CLE	24	1/7	5/7	16 min / 8 inf
ROC	48	2/7	6/7	16 min / 8 inf

 

Goaltenders:

	Goaltender	Outcome	Saves	GA	Record
CLE	Greaves	L	44	4	1-3-1
ROC	Sandstrom	W	22	2	2-2-0

Cleveland Record: 4-4-0-1, 6th North Division

Rochester Record: 6-3-0-0, 5th North Division

 

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