Monsters claim fifth straight with 3-2 win over Comets

Dec 23, 2023

The Cleveland Monsters beat the Utica Comets 3-2 on Saturday night at Adirondack Bank Center. With the win, the Monsters are now 19-7-1-0 and are currently in first place in the AHL’s North Division standings.

 

Utica’s Graeme Clarke scored on the power play at 18:22 of the first period leaving Cleveland trailing 1-0 after 20 minutes. Roman Ahcan notched a tally just 1:53 into the middle frame off feeds from Cameron Butler and Owen Sillinger evening the score. Jake Gaudet recorded a marker at 10:09 assisted by Ahcan, but the Comets responded with power-play goal from Kyle Criscuolo at 18:17 tying the game 2-2 heading into the final intermission. Carson Meyer converted on the man advantage at 13:28 of the third period with helpers from Trey Fix-Wolansky and Marcus Bjork putting the Monsters ahead and bringing the final score to 3-2.

 

Cleveland’s Pavel Cajan made 20 saves for the win while Utica’s Nico Daws stopped 32 shots in defeat.

 

After the holiday break, the Monsters return home to host the Toronto Marlies on Wednesday, December 27, at 7:00 p.m. at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. Follow the games with full coverage on FOX Sports 1350 ‘The Gambler’, AHLTV and the Monsters Hockey Network.

 

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Scoring:

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

 

Shots/Special Teams:

	Shots	PP	PK	PIM
CLE	35	1/2	3/5	29 min / 9 inf
UTC	22	2/5	1/2	23 min / 6 inf

 

Goaltenders:

	Goaltender	Outcome	Saves	GA	Record
CLE	Cajan	W	20	2	4-3-1
UTC	Daws	L	32	3	1-2-0

Cleveland Record: 19-7-1-0, 1st North Division

Utica Record: 10-11-3-0, 6th North Division

 

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