The Cleveland Monsters fell to the Grand Rapids Griffins 4-2 on Wednesday night at Van Andel Arena. With the loss, the Monsters are now 24-31-8-5 and are currently in seventh place in the AHL’s North Division standings.
Robbie Payne opened the scoring in the first period with a power-play goal at 10:26 off feeds from Tyler Angle and Cole Clayton. The Griffins evened the score after a tally from Dominik Shine at 11:44, but Tyler Sikura regained the lead with a marker at 16:54 assisted by Angle and Payne bringing the score to 2-1 for the Monsters after 20 minutes. Grand Rapids took control of the middle frame with goals from Taro Hirose at 8:02, Jonatan Berggren at 15:22 and Kyle Criscuolo at 16:26 leaving Cleveland trailing 4-2 heading into the final intermission. Despite multiple scoring chances in the third period, the Monsters fell by a final score of 4-2.
Cleveland’s Cam Johnson had 20 saves in defeat while Grand Rapids’ Victor Brattstrom made 24 saves for the win.
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