The Cleveland Monsters fell to the Syracuse Crunch (37-19-3-2) 6-2 on Saturday night at Upstate Medical University Arena. With the loss, the Monsters are now 33-21-6-1 and are currently in third place in the AHL’s North Division standings.
Syracuse got on the board just 49 seconds into the contest with a goal from Jakob Pelletier to give the Crunch a 1-0 lead through 20 minutes. 10:37 into the second period, Mitchell Chaffee scored for Syracuse on a penalty shot to pull the Crunch up 2-0. Cleveland’s Roman Ahcan opened the Monsters’ scoring at 12:38 with assists from Luca Pinelli and Dysin Mayo to make it a 2-1 game before Syracuse’s Simon Lundmark added a marker at 17:41 to end the second frame with a 3-1 Crunch lead.
Tristan Allard pulled Syracuse up by three at 0:18 of the final stanza making it 4-1 before Jack Williams netted one unassisted at 9:43 to make it a 4-2 Crunch lead.
Crunch forward Mitchell Chaffee buried an empty net goal at 17:48 followed by Gabriel Szturc scoring on the power play at 19:54 to cap off a 6-2 Syracuse win.
Cleveland’s Ivan Fedotov stopped 19 shots in defeat while Syracuse’s Ryan Fanti made 27 saves for the win.
