The Cleveland Monsters lost to the Toronto Marlies (30-20-5-5) 4-2 on Tuesday afternoon at Scotiabank Arena. With the loss, the Monsters are now 32-20-6-1 and are currently in third place in the AHL’s North Division standings.
Cleveland scored the only goal of the opening period on the power play at 5:19 from Zach Aston-Reese with assists from Luca Pinelli and Dysin Mayo to give the Monsters a 1-0 lead through 20 minutes. Toronto’s Alex Nylander scored on the man advantage at 2:25 of the middle period to make it a 1-1 game through two frames. Luca Del Bel Belluz put Cleveland up 2-1 with a tally at 12:27 of the third period off feeds from Ole Julian Bjørgvik-Holm and Hunter McKown. The Marlies bounced back with three unanswered goals from Ryan Tverberg at 12:59, Logan Shaw at 14:26 and Nylander notched his second goal of the game in empty net fashion at 17:44 for the 4-2 Toronto win.
Cleveland’s Ivan Fedotov stopped 22 shots in defeat while Toronto’s Dennis Hildeby made 26 saves for the win.
