Monsters Earn Point in 3-2 Overtime Loss to Wolves

Feb 16, 2020

The AHL’s Cleveland Monsters fell to the Chicago Wolves 3-2 in overtime on Sunday afternoon at Allstate Arena. With the loss, the Monsters are now 23-25-3-2 and are currently in eighth place in the AHL’s North Division standings with 51 points.

 

Following a scoreless first period, Calvin Thurkauf notched at tally at 3:35 of the middle frame off feeds from Branden Troock and Adam Clendening giving the Monsters a 1-0 lead. Cleveland’s lead doubled following Troock’s marker at 12:17 with assists from Thurkauf and Michael Prapavessis, but Chicago’s Curtis McKenzie made it a one-goal game with a tally at 14:16 to close out the scoring in the second period. The Wolves tied the game after Dylan Coghlan scored at the 11:00 mark of the third frame to force overtime with the score at 2-2. Coghlan notched the game-winning tally for Chicago with 30 seconds remaining in overtime to bringing the final score to 3-2.

 

Cleveland’s Veini Vehvilainen made 34 saves in defeat while Chicago’s Garret Sparks stopped 29 shots in victory.

 

The Monsters travel to face off against the Syracuse Crunch on Friday evening with a 7:00 p.m. puck drop at Upstate Medical University Arena. Follow the games with full coverage on ALT 99.1, AHLTV and the Monsters Hockey Network.

 

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Scoring:

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

 

Shots/Special Teams:

	Shots	PP	PK	PIM
CLE	31	0/1	3/3	6 min / 3 inf
CHI	37	0/3	1/1	2 min / 1 inf

 

Goaltenders:

	Goaltender	Outcome	Saves	GA	Record
CLE	Vehvilainen	OT	34	3	10-14-3
CHI	Sparks	W	29	2	6-14-3

 

 

Cleveland Record: 23-26-2-2, 8th North Division

Chicago Record: 25-22-3-2, 4th Central Division

 

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