Third period sinks Monsters in 4-2 loss to Wolves

Mar 29, 2022

The Cleveland Monsters fell to the Chicago Wolves 4-2 on Tuesday night at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. With the loss, the Monsters are now 23-27-8-4 and are currently in seventh place in the AHL’s North Division standings.

 

Chicago’s Tarmo Reunanen scored at 1:02 of the opening frame, but Jake Gaudet responded with a tally at 5:53 off feeds from Thomas Schemitsch and Roman Ahcan tying the game 1-1 after 20 minutes. Justin Scott notched a marker at 4:53 of the second period with helpers from Robbie Payne and Jake Christiansen sending the Monsters to the final intermission ahead 2-1. The Wolves scored two quick goals in the final frame from Josh Leivo at 3:08 and CJ Smith at 3:27 to take a 3-2 lead. Despite a strong late push from Cleveland, Chicago’s Leivo added an empty-net tally at 19:19 bringing the final score to 4-2.

 

Cleveland’s Jet Greaves had 32 saves in defeat while Chicago’s Pyotr Kochetkov made 27 saves for the win.

 

The Monsters host the Rochester Americans on Friday, April 1, for a 7:00 p.m. puck drop at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. Follow the game with full coverage on Bally Sports Great Lakes, FOX Sports 1350 AM ‘The Gambler’, AHLTV and the Monsters Hockey Network.

 

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Scoring:

	1st	2nd	3rd	OT	SO	Final
CLE	1	1	0	-	-	2
CHI	1	0	3	-	-	4

 

Shots/Special Teams:

	Shots	PP	PK	PIM
CLE	29	0/2	3/3	6 min / 3 inf
CHI	36	0/3	2/2	4 min / 2 inf

Goaltenders:

	Goaltender	Outcome	Saves	GA	Record
CLE	Greaves	L	32	3	11-10-2
CHI	Kochetkov	W	27	2	8-0-1

Cleveland Record: 23-27-8-4, 7th North Division

Chicago Record: 40-11-5-5, 1st Central Division

 

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