The Cleveland Monsters beat the Charlotte Checkers (11-7-2-0) 3-1 on Tuesday night at Bojangles Coliseum. With the win, the Monsters are now 9-7-3-1 and are currently in sixth place in the AHL’s North Division standings.
Mikael Pyyhitä opened the scoring while shorthanded at 18:09 of the first period with Roman Ahcan and Corson Ceulemans on the assists to give Cleveland the 1-0 lead through 20 minutes. Monsters’ forward Owen Sillinger would capitalize on the power play off feeds from Pyyhtiä & Luca Pinelli at the 8:46 mark of the second stanza to make it 2-0 Monsters through two frames. Charlotte’s Michael Benning made it 2-1 with a marker at 8:36 of the final period, followed by Cleveland blueliner, Dysin Mayo adding an empty netter with Guillaume Richard on the helper as the Monsters took the 3-1 victory.
Cleveland’s Ivan Fedotov made 27 saves for the win while Charlotte’s Cooper Black made 21 saves in defeat.
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