The Cleveland Monsters fell to the Providence Bruins 2-1 on Friday night at Rocket Arena. With the loss, the Monsters are now 3-2-2-1 and are currently in sixth place in the AHL’s North Division standings.
The Bruins took control of the first period with a shorthanded goal from Dans Locmelis at 16:57 and a marker from John Farinacci at 19:36 leaving the Monsters trailing 2-0 after 20 minutes. Roman Ahcan put Cleveland on the board with a shorthanded tally at 15:32 off a feed from Corson Ceulemans cutting the deficit to 2-1 going to the final period. Despite a strong push, the Monsters were held scoreless in the third period and fell by a final score of 2-1.
Cleveland’s Ivan Fedotov made 23 saves in defeat while Providence’s Michael DiPietro made 43 saves for the win.