The Cleveland Monsters fell to the Grand Rapids Griffins (17-1-0-1) 4-1 on Wednesday night at Van Andel Arena. With the loss, the Monsters are now 6-7-3-1 and are currently in sixth place in the AHL’s North Division standings.
Tate Singleton opened the scoring at 8:18 of the first period with helpers from Mikael Pyyhtiä and Will Butcher giving Cleveland a 1-0 lead after 20 minutes. The Griffins added two goals in the middle frame from Antti Tuomisto at 2:01 and John Leonard at 15:02 sending the Monsters to the final intermission trailing 2-1. Grand Rapids closed out the third period with tallies from Austin Watson at 2:00 and Leonard into an empty net shorthanded at 18:28 to bring the final score to 4-1.
Cleveland’s Ivan Fedotov made 19 saves in defeat while Grand Rapids’ Sebastian Cossa made 30 saves for the win and Dustin Tokarski made 1 save during 2:41 of play.
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