Monsters late push falls short in 3-1 loss to Crunch

Jan 26, 2022

The Cleveland Monsters fell to the Syracuse Crunch 3-1 on Wednesday night at Upstate Medical University Arena. With the loss, the Monsters are now 13-14-4-3 and are currently in sixth place in the AHL’s North Division standings.

 

Syracuse’s Charles Hudon scored a power-play tally at 14:32 of the opening frame sending Cleveland to the first intermission trailing 1-0. The Crunch added a second man-advantage marker from Gabriel Dumont at 4:55 of the middle period extending the Monsters defecit to 2-0 after 40 minutes. Brendan Gaunce spoiled the shutout bid with a tally at 16:32 of the final frame with helpers from Trey Fix-Wolansky and Jake Christiansen, but Cole Koepke scored an empty-net goal at 17:52 bringing the final score to 3-1.

 

Cleveland’s Jet Greaves made 20 saves in defeat while Syracuse’s Amir Miftakhov made 24 saves for the victory.  

 

The Monsters head home to host the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins on Friday, January 28, for an 7:00 p.m. puck drop at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. Follow the game with full coverage on FOX Sports 1350 AM ‘The Gambler’, AHLTV and the Monsters Hockey Network.

 

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Scoring:

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

 

Shots/Special Teams:

	Shots	PP	PK	PIM
CLE	25	0/3	2/4	8 min / 4 inf
SYR	23	2/4	3/3	6 min / 3 inf

Goaltenders:

	Goaltender	Outcome	Saves	GA	Record
CLE	Greaves	L	20	3	3-4-0
SYR	Miftakhov	W	24	1	4-4-2

Cleveland Record: 13-14-4-3, 6th North Division

Syracuse Record: 15-13-3-1, 5th North Division

 

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