The Cleveland Monsters fell to the Chicago Wolves 5-2 on Sunday evening at Allstate Arena. With the loss, the Monsters are now 24-30-8-5 and are currently in seventh place in the AHL’s North Division standings.
Chicago’s Spencer Smallman notched the lone tally of the opening frame at 3:00 sending Cleveland to the first intermission trailing 1-0. The Wolves added markers in the second period from Stefan Noesen at 51 seconds, Jalen Chatfield at 2:52 and Andrew Poturalski at 5:06, but Thomas Schemitsch scored a goal at 6:18 off assists from Scott Harrington and Tyler Angle cutting the score to 4-1. Trey Fix-Wolansky brought the game within two after a tally at 9:47 with feeds from Angle and Cole Clayton, but Chicago’s Noel Gunler added a maker at 13:25 putting the score at 5-2 after 40 minutes. Monsters rookie Linden Marshall stepped into the crease for the final frame, but Cleveland was unable to complete a comeback with the final score set at 5-2.
Cleveland’s Marshall stopped 12 shots in relief of Cam Johnson who had 20 saves in defeat while Chicago’s Alex Lyon made 23 saves for the win.
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