The Cleveland Monsters fell to the Grand Rapids Griffins (25-1-0-1) 5-0 on Sunday evening at Van Andel Arena. With the loss, the Monsters are now 12-10-3-1 and are currently in sixth place in the AHL’s North Division standings.
Grand Rapids’ Sheldon Dries opened the scoring at 6:33 of the first period to give the Griffins a 1-0 lead through 20 minutes. Grand Rapids would add goals from Ian Mitchell at 1:22 and Michael Brandsegg-Nygård at 2:47 of the second frame to put them up 3-0 heading into the second break. Two third period tallies were scored by Grand Rapids forwards, Eduards Tralmaks at 1:09 and Dominik Shine at 4:09 as the Griffins took the 5-0 win.
Cleveland’s Zach Sawchenko made 21 saves in defeat while Grand Rapids’ Carter Gylander made 22 saves for the win.