The Cleveland Monsters beat the Rockford IceHogs 5-4 on Saturday night at BMO Harris Bank Center. With the win, the Monsters are now 12-10-4-3 and are currently in fifth place in the AHL’s North Division standings.
Brendan Gaunce scored the first goal of the night at 6:05 of the opening frame with assists from Kevin Stenlund and Tim Berni but Rockford’s Dmitri Osipov responded with a tally at 9:52 to even the game. Cole Fonstad notched a marker at 16:58 off a feed from Gaunce to send the Monsters into the first intermission leading 2-1. Carson Meyer recorded a shorthanded tally just 11 seconds into the middle period with a helper from Justin Scott but the IceHogs cut the score to 3-2 after a power-play goal from Mike Hardman at 5:16. Cleveland extended the lead after Meyer scored his second tally of the night at 8:22 off feeds from Tyler Sikura and Tyler Angle followed by a power-play goal from Stenlund at 18:44 with assists from Angle and Cole Cassels bringing the score to 5-2 after 40 minutes. Rockford notched two power-play goals from Nicolas Beaudin at 4:48 and Dylan McLaughlin at 17:33 of the third period, but the Monsters held on securing the win with a final score of 5-4.
Cleveland’s Jet Greaves had 31 stops for the victory while Rockford’s Collin Delia made 30 saves in defeat.
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