CLEVELAND– Coming off a win last night to secure home-ice for The Calder Cup Playoffs, The Lake Erie Monsters were poised to take to the ice on Friday night to play The Charlotte Checkers. The Monsters defeated The Checkers on Thursday 3-1.
The first two goals came in for The Checkers from Brock McGinn at 8:01 and 10:25 of the first period. Who would have expected that these would be the only points put up by the visitors from Charlotte.
Alex Broadhurst answered back with a rocket of a shot into the net with the assistance of Steve Macarthy and Dillon Heatherington with 4:20 remaining in the first period.
The game plan is to rest the starters that performed at an exceptional level last night on the ice. The goalie match-up tonight was Joonas Korpisalo for The Monsters and his counter-part Daniel Altshuller for The Checkers between the pipes.
For a complete listing of the final tallies click here.
Frustration set in after The Monsters started to score at will. Sonny Milano and Nick Moutrey put the finishing touches on a a 5-2 victory with this empty-netter to end The Monsters’ season in front of a crowd of over 13,500 on this Fan Salute Night.
Here is the game recap from The Lake Erie Monsters YouTube page.
Some insight from Oliver Bjorkstrand in a post game interview.
Playoff tickets are already on sale and they come with an optional $8.00 parking pass in the East Gateway Garage.
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