October 27, 2017
Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, OH
Ontario Reign – 4, Cleveland Monsters – 7
|
1st |
2nd |
3rd |
Final |
|
|
Monsters |
3 |
1 |
3 |
7 |
|
Reign |
0 |
2 |
2 |
4 |
|
Shots |
PEN-PIM |
PP |
|
|
Monsters |
30 |
8-16 |
0/3 |
|
Reign |
27 |
6-12 |
2/5 |
Reign: 0-6-0-0 (0-4-0-0 Road)
Monsters: 2-2-1-0 (1-1-1-0 Road)
GAME TIMELINE:
– First-ever regular season meeting. Rematch of 2016 Western Conference Finals (only meetings) in team histories.
– Reign defenseman Zac Leslie skates his 100th AHL contest.
– Monsters open the scoring 1:23 into the contest as leader scorer Tyler Motte beats the Reign defense and chips the puck over of Reign goalie Jack Campbell.
– Forward Justin Scott adds to the lead at 5:27 burying a rebound off the pads of Campbell.
– Forward Jordan Schroeder completes a shorthanded breakaway for the Monsters at 14:55 of the opening frame. First shorthanded goal the Reign have given up this season.
– Reign netminder Cal Petersen replaces Campbell to start the second period.
– Reign defenseman Sean Walker scores his first professional goal at 4:45 of the second frame. Beat Monsters goalie Brad Thiessen from a bad angle along the right-wing boards.
– Defenseman Kevin Gravel buries the first power-play goal for the Reign at 10:49 of the second period. Gravel picked up his first goal of the season one second after a 5-on-3 Reign attack.
– Cleveland’s Tyler Motte picks up goal No. 2 of the contest at 12:42 of the second period to make it 4-2.
– Calvin Thurkauf picks up the Monsters’ fifth goal of the game 5:19 into the third period off a delayed penalty.
– The Reign refuse to go away quietly. Forward and team captain Brett Sutter capitalizes on a shorthanded rush at 12:33 of the final frame.
– Thurkauf strikes again at 15:55.
– Forward Michael Mersch gives the Reign hope with a power-play goal at 18:40. Mersch finished the game with one goal and two assists.
– Tyler Motte completes the hat trick with an empty-net goal with nine seconds left in the contest.
– Reign forwards Jonny Brodzinski and T.J. Hensick each register two assists.
NEXT GAME: Saturday, October 28 at Cleveland Monsters at Quicken Loans Arena, 10:00 a.m. PT
