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Monsters Race Past Amerks, 5-2

February 25, 2016 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Cleveland Monsters News Release


CLEVELAND - In the second of four meetings between the two teams this season, Cleveland's Lake Erie Monsters defeated the Rochester Americans on Thursday at The Q by a final score of 5-2. With the win, the Monsters improved to 28-17-5-4 overall this season and with a .602 points percentage, currently rank alone in third place in the AHL's Central Division standings.

The Monsters posted the opening frame's lone score on Thursday, a center-point power-play strike from John Ramage at 8:39 that made it 1-0 Lake Erie, with Oliver Bjorkstrand and T.J. Tynan collecting assists on the play.

In the middle frame, Lake Erie's Daniel Zaar made it 2-0 with an even-strength one-time finish at 1:48, set up by Alex Broadhurst and Michael Chaput. The Monsters added a power-play marker from Broadhurst at 8:31 of the second to make it 3-0 with Chaput and Steve Eminger registering assists on the play. Rochester got on the board at 14:18 thanks to an even-strength Jerry D'Amigo goal, but Lake Erie's Sonny Milano pushed his team's advantage to 4-1 with an impressive even-strength backhand finish at 17:18 on feeds from Manny Malhotra and Monsters net-minder Anton Forsberg.

In the third, D'Amigo struck again for Rochester at 14:30 to make it 4-2, but at 17:03, Lukas Sedlak found Josh Anderson in the neutral zone and the Lake Erie winger slugged a long-distance wrist shot into an empty Amerks net to cap the scoring at 5-2 Monsters.

Forsberg improved to 14-8-3 in net for Lake Erie by virtue of a 25-save performance while the reigning CCM/AHL Player of the Week, Linus Ullmark, took the loss for Rochester after stopping 25 of the 29 Monsters pucks he faced.

Next up for the Monsters, it's a Friday home clash vs. the Rockford IceHogs with full coverage, live from The Q, underway at 7:00 pm on ESPN 850 WKNR and the Monsters Hockey Network.

Tickets for every Monsters home game start at just $10 and are on sale now! Full and partial season ticket memberships are also available and provide you with the best seat locations, custom member benefits and the lowest ticket prices. Group outing and birthday bash packages for 10 or more people are also on sale now. All tickets can be purchased by visiting LakeErieMonsters.com, calling (216) 420-0000, visiting The Q Box Office or any Northern Ohio Discount Drug Mart. Be sure to follow the Monsters on Twitter @monstershockey, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/lakeeriemonsters, and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/monstershockey.

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