The Cleveland Monsters beat the Rochester Americans (24-18-5-3) 4-2 on Wednesday night at Rocket Arena. With the win, the Monsters are now 28-16-6-1 and are currently in third place in the AHL’s North Division standings.
Rochester’s Olivier Nadeau opened the scoring at 2:37 and Konsta Helenius added another at 17:02, but Cleveland’s Zach Aston-Reese tipped one in at 19:52 assisted by Guillaume Richard and Brendan Gaunce to make it 2-1 Rochester at the end of the opening frame. The Monsters’ Luca Marrelli scored on the man-advantage at 11:10 of the middle stanza, marking his first professional goal, with helpers from Owen Sillinger and Gaunce to tie the game. Cleveland’s James Malatesta added another at 13:29 with assists from Dysin Mayo and Luca Del Bel Belluz to send the Monsters into the third up 3-2. The Monsters’ Mikael Pyyhtiä scored the only goal of the third period with an assist from Mayo to give Cleveland the 4-2 win.
Cleveland’s Ivan Fedotov stopped 24 shots for the win while Rochester’s Devin Levi made 26 saves in defeat.
