The Cleveland Monsters beat the Belleville Senators (11-14-2-0) 4-1 on Friday night at CAA Arena. With the win, the Monsters are now 10-8-3-1 and are currently in sixth place in the AHL’s North Division standings.
The Monsters started off the first period with a power-play goal from Jack Williams at 3:11 with helpers from Will Butcher and Stanislav Svozil. Corson Ceulemans added a tally at 7:48 off feeds from Butcher and Jordan Dumais giving Cleveland a 2-0 lead after 20 minutes. Belleville’s Arthur Kaliyev converted on the man advantage at 6:50, but Dumais quickly answered with a marker at 7:49 assisted by Luca Pinelli and Luca Del Bel Belluz bringing the score to 3-1 heading into the final intermission. Hudson Fasching added an insurance goal at 11:59 of the third period with a helper from Williams bringing the final score to 4-1 in favor of Cleveland.
Cleveland’s Ivan Fedotov made 20 saves for the win while Belleville’s Mads Søgaard made 29 saves in defeat.