The Cleveland Monsters beat the Syracuse Crunch 5-4 in overtime on Saturday night at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. With the win, the Monsters are now 1-1-0-0 and are currently in fifth place in the AHL’s North Division standings.
The Monsters took control in the opening frame starting with a tally from Justin Scott at 7:18 off feeds from Carson Meyer and Gabriel Carlsson. Meyer followed with a goal at 10:11 off assists from Jake Christiansen and Scott to send Cleveland into the first intermission leading 2-0. Yegor Chinakhov scored his first North American tally at 8:16 of the middle frame with helpers from Tyler Angle and Tyler Sikura, but Syracuse’s Jimmy Huntington notched a marker at 11:32 to cut Cleveland’s lead to 3-1 after 40 minutes. Huntington completed a natural hat trick with his second goal at 1:56 of the final frame followed by a power-play tally at 2:54 to tie the game 3-3 for the Crunch. Syracuse’s Cole Koepke put the visitors in the lead at 6:04, but Meyer forced the game into overtime with a shorthanded marker at 18:48 off feeds from Gavin Bayreuther and Angle. Liam Foudy secured the 5-4 victory for the Monsters 1:59 into the extra frame with an assist from Bayreuther.
Cleveland’s Jean-Francois Berube made 27 saves for the victory while Syracuse’s Hugo Alnefelt made 21 saves in defeat.
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