Monsters Stalled in Syracuse, 4-2

Nov 16, 2019

The AHL’s Cleveland Monsters were defeated by the Syracuse Crunch on Saturday at Onondaga County War Memorial Arena by a final score of 4-2. With the loss, the Monsters are now 8-7-1-1 and with 18 points, currently occupy sixth place in the AHL’s North Division standings.

 

Cleveland’s Andrew Peeke made it 1-0 Monsters in the first period before Syracuse’s Danick Martel leveled the score. The Monsters regained the lead at 2-1 late in the opening stanza following an Adam Clendening tally but in the second, Crunch forward Dennis Yan tied the game at two and Luke Witkowski gave Syracuse a 3-2 lead after 40 minutes of play. The third period’s lone score, a Cory Conacher empty-netter, sealed a 4-2 Crunch win. Veini Vehvilainen fell to 3-5-0 in net for Cleveland this season despite a 22-save performance while Syracuse’s Scott Wedgewood made 22 saves of his own to improve to 4-2-1 this year.

Scoring:

	1st	2nd	3rd	OT	SO	Final
CLE	2	0	0	-	-	2
SYR	1	2	1	-	-	4

 

SHOTS/SPECIAL TEAMS:

	Shots	PP	PK	PIM
CLE	24	0/3	4/4	12 min / 6 inf
SYR	26	0/4	3/3	10 min / 5 inf

 

Goaltenders:

	Goaltender	Outcome	Saves	GA	Record
CLE	Vehvilainen	L	22	3	3-5-0
SYR	Wedgewood	W	22	2	4-2-1

 

Cleveland Record: 8-7-1-1, 6th North Division

Syracuse Record: 8-6-2-0, 5th North Division

 

GAME SHEET – GAME PHOTOS – GAME HIGHLIGHTS*

 

Next Game:

The Monsters return home to host the Chicago Wolves on Thursday with a 7:00 p.m. puck drop at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. Follow the game with full coverage on ALT 99.1, AHLTV and the Monsters Hockey Network.

 

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