AHL Cleveland Monsters

Monsters Salute Fans, Cap Regular Season with 5-2 Win at the Q

April 15, 2016 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Cleveland Monsters News Release


Lake Erie Monsters Celebrate
Lake Erie Monsters Celebrate
(Cleveland Monsters)

CLEVELAND - In front of the 13,599 fans, the team's largest home crowd of the season, Cleveland's Lake Erie Monsters defeated the Charlotte Checkers by a final score of 5-2 on Friday at Quicken Loans Arena in the final game of Lake Erie's 2015-16 regular-season. With the win, the Monsters capped the campaign at 43-22-6-5 overall this season and with a .638 points percentage, finished 2015-16 in second place in the Central Division, third place in the Western Conference and set new franchise records for regular-season points (97) and home victories (25).

Charlotte's Brock McGinn vaulted the Checkers to a 2-0 lead on Friday with back-to-back five-on-five goals, at 8:01 and 10:25 of the opening period, respectively. Lake Erie's Alex Broadhurst cut the Checkers' lead in half, however, at 15:40 of the frame, thanks to an even-strength goal, set up by Steve McCarthy and Dillon Heatherington.

The Monsters leveled the score at two apiece with the middle stanza's lone tally, an even-strength Mark Cundari blast at 11:41, assisted by T.J. Tynan and Oliver Bjorkstrand. In the third, Bjorkstrand netted what proved to be the game-winning score at 4:16 at even-strength thanks to feeds from Dean Kukan and Kerby Rychel before a Sonny Milano power-play goal at 12:24 and an empty-netter from Nick Moutrey at 16:32 capped the scoring at 5-2 Monsters.

Lake Erie net-minder Joonas Korpisalo improved to 8-8-2 in net for the Monsters this season by virtue of a 21-save performance while Daniel Altshuller made 23 stops in defeat for the Checkers.

Next up for the Monsters, it's round one of the 2016 Calder Cup Playoffs with the team's full first-round playoff broadcast schedule and ticket information released in the near future.

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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