Monsters secure 3-2 shootout win over Griffins

Feb 13, 2024

The Cleveland Monsters beat the Grand Rapids Griffins 3-2 in a shootout on Tuesday night at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. With the win, the Monsters are now 27-15-2-1 and are currently in second place in the AHL’s North Division standings.

 

Following a scoreless first period, Carson Meyer notched a tally at 13:03 of the middle frame assisted by Brendan Gaunce and Corson Ceulemans giving the Monsters the lead. Alex Whelan doubled the score at 18:17 off feeds from Hunter McKown and Justin Pearson sending Cleveland to the final intermission ahead 2-0. The Griffins tied the game in the third period with goals from Jonatan Berggren at 13:59 and Antti Tuomisto at 15:09 forcing the teams to overtime. Both goaltenders stood tall through the extra stanza into a shootout where Trey Fix-Wolansky and Mikael Pyyhtia scored to give the Monsters a 3-2 win.  

 

Cleveland’s Jet Greaves made 40 saves for the win while Grand Rapids’ Michael Hutchinson stopped 27 shots in defeat.

 

The Monsters hit the road to visit the Grand Rapids Griffins on Friday, February 16, at 7:00 p.m. at Van Andel Arena. 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	0	0	1	3
GR	0	0	2	0	0	2

 

Shots/Special Teams:

	Shots	PP	PK	PIM
CLE	30	0/3	6/6	16 min / 8 inf
GR	42	0/6	3/3	10 min / 5 inf

 

Goaltenders:

	Goaltender	Outcome	Saves	GA	SOG-S	Record
CLE	Greaves	W	40	2	1-3	20-9-2
GR	Hutchinson	OT	27	2	2-2	10-8-3

Cleveland Record: 27-15-2-1, 2nd North Division

Grand Rapids Record: 21-15-4-3, 2nd Central Division

 

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