Monsters pick up point in 3-2 shootout loss to Crunch

Jan 13, 2024

The Cleveland Monsters fell to the Syracuse Crunch 3-2 in a shootout on Saturday night at Upstate Medical University Arena. With the shootout loss, the Monsters are now 23-10-1-1 and are currently in first place in the AHL’s North Division standings.

 

Syracuse’s Waltteri Merelä struck first at 5:16 of the opening frame followed by Mikael Pyyhtia recording a marker at 8:22 assisted by Trey Fix-Wolansky and Hunter McKown tying the game 1-1 after 20 minutes. Alex Whelan scored the only tally of the middle frame at 8:48 off a feed from Justin Pearson sending the Monsters to the final intermission ahead 2-1. The Crunch tied the game after a goal from Declan Carlile at 10:50 of the third period forcing overtime. Following a scoreless extra frame, Cleveland fell in the fourth round of a shootout by a final score to 3-2.

 

Cleveland’s Jet Greaves made 32 saves in defeat while Syracuse’s Hugo Alnefelt stopped 36 shots for the win.

 

The Monsters head home to host the Lehigh Valley Phantoms on Friday, January 19, at 7:00 p.m. at the 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	1	1	0	0	0	2
SYR	1	0	1	0	1	3

 

Shots/Special Teams:

	Shots	PP	PK	PIM
CLE	38	0/4	3/3	6 min / 3 inf
SYR	35	0/3	4/4	8 min / 4 inf

 

Goaltenders:

	Goaltender	Outcome	Saves	GA	SOG-S	Record
CLE	Greaves	OT	32	2	3-4	17-5-1
SYR	Alnefelt	W	36	2	2-4	6-5-3

Cleveland Record: 23-10-1-1, 1st North Division

Syracuse Record: 19-12-2-2, 2nd North Division

 

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