The Cleveland Monsters fell to the Laval Rocket 6-0 on Thursday night at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. With the loss, the Monsters are now 24-32-8-5 and are currently in seventh place in the AHL’s North Division standings.
The Rocket’s Jean-Sébastien Dea scored the lone goal of the opening frame at 17:09 giving the visitors a 1-0 lead. Laval added to the score in the middle frame with markers from Alex Belzile at 2:34, Nate Schnarr at 4:20 and Brandon Gignac at 6:01 bringing the score to 4-0 after 40 minutes. Dea added his second tally of the night at 1:06 of the third period before Jean-Christophe Beaudin notched the final goal at 2:17 sending the final score to 6-0.
Cleveland’s Linden Marshall had 23 saves in defeat while Laval’s Kevin Poulin made 27 saves for the win.
