Penalties Hurt Monsters in 3-2 Loss to Rocket

Dec 4, 2019

The AHL’s Cleveland Monsters fell to the Laval Rocket 3-2 on Wednesday night at Place Bell. With the loss, the Monsters are now 11-10-1-1 and are currently in seventh place in the AHL’s North Division standings with 24 points.

 

The Rocket took the lead to start the game at 7:34 of the opening period after Alexandre Alain scored a power-play goal. Markus Hannikainen responded with a man-advantage tally for Cleveland at 13:50 with Adam Clendening and Nathan Gerbe adding helpers to send the teams to the first intermission tied at one apiece.

 

Laval scored two five-on-three power-play goals at 3:24 and 3:48 of the middle frame courtesy of Alex Belzile and Xaiver Ouellet to take a 3-1 lead into the final period. Cleveland mounted a comeback in the third frame with Hannikainen’s second power-play marker at 12:27 assisted by Kevin Stenlund and Gerbe, but the Monsters could not tie the game bringing the final score to 3-2.

 

Matiss Kivlenieks made 27 saves in the loss while Laval’s Charlie Lindgren stopped 26 pucks for the win.

 

The Monsters face off against the Belleville Senators on Friday night with a 7:00 p.m. puck drop at CAA Arena. 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	1	0	1	-	-	2
LAV	1	2	0	-	-	3

 

Shots/Special Teams:

	Shots	PP	PK	PIM
CLE	28	2/5	4/7	19 min / 8 inf
LAV	30	3/7	3/7	17 min / 7 inf

 

Goaltenders:

	Goaltender	Outcome	Saves	GA	Record
CLE	Kivlenieks	L	27	3	6-3-2
LAV	Lindgren	W	26	2	6-5-2

 

 

Cleveland Record: 11-10-1-1, 7th North Division

Laval Record: 13-9-3-0, 3rd North Division

 

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