The Marlies picked up their sixth straight win Sunday, edging the Cleveland Monsters 6-5 in a shootout.
Today’s game looked much different than yesterday, with the Monsters striking first and taking a 2-0 lead halfway through the opening frame. The Marlies rallied and battled back with two late first period goals to even the score heading into the first intermission. Rasmus Sandin opened the scoring for the Marlies at 18:28, firing a rocket from the point on the power play. Pontus Aberg and Egor Korshkov assisted on the opening goal. Less than a minute later, Aberg went bardown off a faceoff to tie things up. Pierre Engvall picked up the assist on the goal and the game was tied at two apiece after 20 minutes of play.
The Monsters answered back early in the second period with a shorthanded goal to restore their lead. From that point on it would be a back and forth affair with the Marlies battling back each time to tie things up. Tanner MacMaster scored the Marlies’ third goal just over a minute later at 4:37 to answer back and even the score. The Monsters then capitalized on a power play and regained the lead at 6:17 of the second. At 11:58, Kenny Agostino sent the puck out from behind the goal and it bounced in off Matiss Kivlenieks’ back and the score was even 4-4 heading into the final frame.
Justin Scott added his second of the game at 12:02 of the third period as the Monsters found luck on the power play again. At 13:48, Rasmus Sandin connected with Garrett Wilson in front of the Monsters’ goal and he fired home his first of the season to tie the game at 5-5.
Extra time wasn’t enough to solve this one and the game headed to a shootout. Kenny Agostino and Egor Korshkov scored in the shootout, but it would be Korshkov’s goal that would be the eventual game winner. Joseph Woll picked up his second win of the season in his first start on home ice.
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