The Cleveland Monsters fell to the Hershey Bears (10-4-1-0) 5-2 on Thursday night at Rocket Arena. With the loss, the Monsters are now 4-4-3-1 and are currently in sixth place in the AHL’s North Division standings.
The Bears started the scoring with a goal from Ivan Miroshnichenko at 4:54 and power-play tallies from Spencer Smallman at 10:18 and Ilya Protas at 12:07 of the first period. Justin Pearson responded with a marker at 18:00 with a helper from James Malatesta cutting Cleveland’s deficit to 3-1 after 20 minutes. Following a scoreless middle frame, Bogdan Trineyev recorded a goal at 7:04 of the third period pushing the score to 4-1. Luca Pinelli notched a tally at 8:53 off feeds from Owen Sillinger and Roman Ahcan, but Andrew Cristall scored an empty-net goal at 16:59 bringing the final score to 5-2.
Cleveland’s Ivan Fedotov made 24 saves in defeat while Hershey’s Clay Stevenson made 32 saves for the win.
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