The Cleveland Monsters defeated the Rochester Americans 4-2 on Saturday night at Blue Cross Arena. With the win, the Monsters are now 26-34-8-5 and are currently in seventh place in the AHL’s North Division standings.
Rochester took control in the opening period with goals from Lukas Rousek at 2:40 and Brandon Biro on the power play at 10:12 to give the Americans a two goal lead. Cleveland answered on the man advantage at 19:40 with a Trey Fix-Wolansky goal, assisted by Cole Fonstad, to make it 2-1 Rochester heading into the first break. In the middle stanza, the Monsters used a Tyler Sikura goal at 2:11 from Robbie Payne and Roman Ahcan to tie the game at two apiece before Ahcan added a tally of his own just 16 seconds later off a Fix-Wolansky feed, giving Cleveland a 3-2 lead. The Monsters defense stood strong in the third while Justin Scott took advantage of the empty net off an assist from Tristan Mullin at 18:27 to seal the win for Cleveland.
Cleveland’s Cam Johnson made 34 stops in the win while Rochester’s Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 22 saves in defeat.
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