Monsters Upended in Binghamton, 5-2

Jan 10, 2020

The AHL’s Cleveland Monsters were defeated by the Binghamton Devils on Friday at Floyd L. Maines Veterans Memorial Arena by a final score of 5-2. With the loss, the Monsters fell to 17-16-1-2 and with 37 points, currently occupy seventh place in the AHL’s North Division standings.

 

In the opening period, the Devils registered even-strength goals from Egor Sharangovich at 1:16, Brandon Gignac at 15:09 and Josh Jacobs at 16:32 to take a 3-0 lead into the first intermission. In the second, a five-on-five Mikhail Maltsev tally at 4:45 made it 4-0 Devils before Adam Clendening and Anton Karlsson combined to set up an even-strength Calvin Thurkauf marker at 6:04 sending the Monsters into the second intermission trailing by a 4-1 margin. In the final frame, Gignac notched his second of the game on the power-play at 9:35 before Sam Vingeault established the game’s final score of 5-2 with an even-strength deflection from Clendening and Thurkauf at 12:19.

 

Cleveland goaltender Veini Vehvilainen stopped 27 pucks in defeat while Binghamton’s Cory Schneider made 29 saves in victory.

 

Next up for the Monsters, it’s a Saturday road clash vs. the Hershey Bears with full coverage, live from Giant Center in Hershey, PA on Alt 99.1, AHLTV and the Monsters Hockey Network.

 

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Scoring:

	1st	2nd	3rd	OT	SO	Final
CLE	0	1	1	-	-	2
BNG	3	1	1	-	-	5

 

Shots/Special Teams:

	Shots	PP	PK	PIM
CLE	31	0/2	3/4	19 min / 8 inf
BNG	32	1/4	2/2	15 min / 6 inf

 

Goaltenders:

	Goaltender	Outcome	Saves	GA	Record
CLE	Vehvilainen	L	27	5	8-9-1
BNG	Schneider	W	29	2	4-4-0

 

 

Cleveland Record: 17-16-1-2, 7th North Division

Binghamton Record: 15-17-4-0, 8th North Division

 

GAME SHEET – GAME PHOTOS – GAME HIGHLIGHTS*

 

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