The Cleveland Monsters beat the Syracuse Crunch (13-8-0-0) 4-1 on Thursday night at Rocket Arena. With the win, the Monsters are now 7-7-3-1 and are currently in sixth place in the AHL’s North Division standings.
Following a scoreless first period, Gabriel Szturc converted on the power play for Syracuse at 4:28 of the middle frame leaving Cleveland trailing 1-0 after 40 minutes. The Monsters offense exploded in the third period starting with an unassisted goal from Luca Pinelli at 6:35 followed by a power-play tally from Dysin Mayo at 8:53 off feeds from Owen Sillinger and James Malatesta bringing the score to 2-1. Guillaume Richard added a marker at 11:09 with helpers from Pinelli and Sillinger extending the Monsters lead. Jack Williams put the game away with an empty-net tally at 17:48 assisted by Justin Pearson and Stanislav Svozil bringing the final score to 4-1.
Cleveland’s Zach Sawchenko made 23 saves for the win while Syracuse’s Ryan Fanti made 17 saves in defeat.
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