The Cleveland Monsters fell to the Utica Comets 4-3 on Wednesday night at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. With the loss, the Monsters are now 25-34-8-5 and are currently in seventh place in the AHL’s North Division standings.
Utica’s Aarne Talvitie scored the lone goal of the opening frame at 12:49 sending Cleveland to the first intermission trailing 1-0.
The Monsters took control of the second period beginning with a tally from Jake Christiansen at 11:42 off feeds from Owen Sillinger and Cole Clayton.
Clayton added a power-play marker of his own at 15:10 with assists from Sillinger and Tyler Sikura giving Cleveland a 2-1 lead after 40 minutes.
The Comets fought back in the third period with goals from Jarrod Gourley at 1:06, Chase De Leo at 2:25 and Alexander Holtz at 13:43 pushing the score to 3-2.
Thomas Schemitsch grabbed an unassisted tally at 15:35, but the Monsters comeback fell short with a final score of 4-3.
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