The Cleveland Monsters defeated the Rochester Americans 6-5 in overtime on Friday night at Blue Cross Arena. With the win, the Monsters are now 7-5-0-0 and are currently tied for second place in the AHL’s North Division standings.
The Americans started the scoring just 1:23 into the game with a goal from Chase Priskie. Cleveland responded on the man advantage as Kirill Marchenko scored off assists from Samuel Knazko and Trey Fix-Wolansky at 3:14 in the first period.
The Americans broke the tie early in the second period with a power play goal by Filip Cederqvist, which he followed with his second of the game just nine minutes later to give the Americans a 3-1 advantage.
Tyler Angle pulled the Monsters within one at 16:36 in the second period with helpers from Cole Clayton and Cole Fonstad. The Americans reclaimed their two goal lead less than a minute later when Aleksandr Kisakov made it 4-2.
A Fix-Wolansky goal capped an eventful frame at 17:45 in the second period, off an assist from Tim Berni.
Jake Gaudet helped Cleveland take advantage of an equipment-related goaltending change at 1:43 of the third period off assists from Billy Sweezey and Angle to tie the game at 4, but the Americans’ Mitch Eliot responded with a goal at 10:03 to put the Americans up 5-4.
The Monsters turned to the power play unit late, as Marchenko scored his team-leading eighth of the year at 18:56 in the third period off assists from Fix-Wolansky and Fonstad to send the game to overtime tied at 5.
Trey Fix-Wolansky was the overtime hero for Cleveland, scoring the game-winning goal, assisted by Carson Meyer, and giving Cleveland a 6-5 victory.
Cleveland’s Daniil Tarasov made 21 saves for the victory while Rochester’s Michael Houser and Beck Warm combined for 29 saves in defeat.
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