Monsters Upend Marlies 5-2 in Front of 12,255 Fans

Jan 24, 2020

The AHL’s Cleveland Monsters beat the Toronto Marlies 5-2 on Friday night in front of 12,255 fans at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. With the win, the Monsters are now 19-20-2-2 and are currently in seventh place in the AHL’s North Division standings with 43 points.

 

Dillon Simpson scored his first goal of the night at 1:28 thanks to assists from Calvin Thurkauf and Trey Fix-Wolansky before adding a second tally at 3:37 to give the Monsters an early 2-0 lead. Toronto’s Trevor Moore responded for the visitors at 3:54 to cut Cleveland’s lead in half going into the first intermission. The Monsters scored the lone goal of the second period, taking a 3-1 lead after Fix-Wolansky notched a power-play strike on Kevin Stenlund’s lone assist. Toronto’s Jeremy Bracco notched a power-play goal at 18:16 of the third period to draw the Marlies within one before Cleveland posted two empty-net goals, the first from Paul Bittner assisted by Simpson and Ryan MacInnis at 19:14, followed by a marker from Derek Barach courtesy of Stefan Matteau to push the final score to 5-2.

 

Cleveland’s Matiss Kivlenieks made 35 saves in victory while Toronto’s Kasimir Kaskisuo stopped 28 pucks in defeat.

 

The Monsters host the Toronto Marlies for a rematch on Saturday afternoon with a 1:00 p.m. puck drop at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. 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	2	1	2	-	-	5
TOR	1	0	1	-	-	2

 

Shots/Special Teams:

	Shots	PP	PK	PIM
CLE	33	1/4	3/4	10 min / 5 inf
TOR	37	1/4	3/4	10 min / 5 inf

 

Goaltenders:

	Goaltender	Outcome	Saves	GA	Record
CLE	Kivlenieks	W	35	2	8-7-2
TOR	Kaskisuo	L	28	3	11-6-2

 

 

Cleveland Record: 19-20-2-2, 7th North Division

Toronto Record: 21-17-2-2, 5th North Division

 

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