CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Monsters beat the Grand Rapids Griffins 4-3 in a shootout on Wednesday night at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. With the win, the Monsters are now 5-2-0-0 and are currently in third place in the AHL’s North Division standings.
The Griffins opened the scoring the first period with a goal from Tim Gettinger at 6:53, but Trey Fix-Wolansky responded with a marker at 16:27 off feeds from Yegor Chinakhov and Jake Christiansen to tie the game 1-1 after 40 minutes. Chinakhov converted on a power play at 7:26 of the middle frame with helpers from Nick Blankenburg and Fix-Wolansky, but Grand Rapids’ Simon Edvinsson evened the game once again with a tally at 16:48. The Monsters special teams struck once more after a second goal on the man advantage for Chinakhov at 18:20 assisted by Blakenburg and Fix-Wolansky to give Cleveland a 3-2 lead heading into the final intermission. The Griffins pushed the game into overtime after a power-play goal from Gettinger with 0.7 seconds left to play, but Jet Greaves stood tall through the extra frame to force a shootout. Chinakhov and Mikael Pyyhtia scored in the shootout to help carry the Monsters to a 4-3 win.
Cleveland’s Greaves had 35 stops for the win while Grand Rapids’ Sebastian Cossa made 25 saves in defeat.
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Scoring:
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | OT | SO | Final | ||||||||
| CLE | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | |||||||
| GR | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Shots/Special Teams:
| Shots | PP | PK | PIM | ||||||
| CLE | 29 | 2/5 | 1/2 | 4 min / 2 inf | |||||
| GR | 38 | 1/2 | 3/5 | 10 min / 5 inf |
Goaltenders:
| Goaltender | Outcome | Saves | GA | SOG-S | Record | ||||||||
| CLE | Greaves | W | 35 | 3 | 1-3 | 4-1-0 | |||||||
| GR | Cossa | OT | 25 | 3 | 2-3 | 1-1-2 |
Cleveland Record: 5-2-0-0, 3rd North Division
Grand Rapids Record: 2-3-2-0, 4th Central Division
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