The Cleveland Monsters fell to the Rockford IceHogs 4-3 in overtime on Tuesday night at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. With the overtime loss, the Monsters are now 21-23-7-4 and are currently in seventh place in the AHL’s North Division standings.
Rockford’s Garrett Mitchell opened the scoring at 2:03 of the first period, but Justin Scott took advantage of a breakaway opportunity notching a tally at 6:33 to even the game. The IceHogs added two more markers from Lukas Reichel at 13:06 and Wyatt Kalynuk on the power play at 17:56 sending the Monsters to the first intermission trailing 3-1. Robbie Payne scored a goal at 14:13 of the second period assisted by Jake Gaudet and Dillon Simpson bringing the score to 3-2 after 40 minutes. Tyler Sikura tied the game 3-3 with a shorthanded tally at 19:23 of the final period off feeds from Jake Christiansen and Payne forcing overtime. Rockford’s Reichel notched his second tally of the night and the game-winning goal at 3:46 of the extra frame bringing the final score to 4-3.
Cleveland’s Jet Greaves made 28 saves in defeat while Rockford’s Arvid Soderblom made 33 saves for the victory.
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