The Cleveland Monsters beat the Toronto Marlies (18-14-1-2) 5-4 in a shootout on Wednesday night at Coca-Cola Coliseum. With the win, the Monsters are now 16-11-4-1 and are currently in fifth place in the AHL’s North Division standings.
Toronto started the game with two quick goals from Benoit-Olivier Groulx at 1:18 and Ryan Tverberg at 2:01 for an early 2-0 Marlies lead. Cleveland’s Justin Pearson scored at 6:55 while shorthanded to make it 2-1 after the first period. The Monsters tied the game 2-2 at 4:03 of the second frame with a goal from James Malatesta as Corson Ceulemans and Luca Del Bel Belluz picked up helpers on the play. Toronto got it back at 18:45 as Travis Boyd added a tally to put the Marlies up 3-2 through 40 minutes. Roman Ahcan locked the game 3-3 just 0:33 into the final stanza with Luca Pinelli on the assist, followed by Owen Sillinger pulling Cleveland ahead 4-3 at 10:15 of the period off feeds from Pinelli and Will Butcher. Toronto’s Michael Pezzetta added a marker at 13:42 as regulation ended tied 4-4. After a scoreless overtime period, Hunter McKown scored the only shootout goal to give Cleveland the 5-4 victory.
Cleveland’s Ivan Fedotov made 28 saves for the win while Toronto’s Artur Akhtyamov made 29 saves in defeat.
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