The Cleveland Monsters beat the Grand Rapids Griffins (32-5-2-1) 4-1 on Wednesday night at Van Andel Arena. With the win, the Monsters are now 20-14-5-1 and are currently in fifth place in the AHL’s North Division standings.
Cleveland’s Corson Ceulemans opened the scoring at 10:05 with helpers from Luca Del Bel Belluz and James Malatesta, but Grand Rapids’ Eduards Tralmaks responded at 18:30 to make it 1-1 after the first frame.
Stanislav Svozil added a tally at 19:58 in the second assisted by Dysin Mayo, putting the Monsters up 2-1 to close the period.
Owen Sillinger started the third period capitalizing on the power play at 3:31 with helpers from Luca Marrelli and Del Bel Belluz to make the score 3-1.
Roman Ahcan added an empty-net tally at 19:54 assisted by Jack Williams making it 4-1 Cleveland to end the game.
Cleveland’s Ivan Fedotov stopped 19 shots for the win while Grand Rapids’ Sebastian Cossa made 39 saves in defeat.
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