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After an early lead Tuesday, the Blue Jackets allowed four third-period goals to the Coyotes. "We're finding ways to lose every night."

The Monsters were smarting from back-to-back road losses to the Laval Rocket and they were minus three of their best players when they faced the Grand Rapids Griffins on March 12 at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.

Host Laval took care of the Monsters, 4-1, on March 8. Cleveland (33-17-3-3) had won two games in a row entering the contest. The Monsters maintain a two-point lead over Syracuse in the AHL North. David Jiricek scored the Monsters’ goal, his sixth for the season. It came on a power play with 4:13 remaining in the first period. He was assisted by Marcus Bjork and Luca Del Bel Belluz. The Monsters were 1-for-4 on power plays. Jiricek’s goal tied the game at 1-1. Laval retook the lead j...

Carson Meyer and James Malatesta scored the game-tying and go-ahead goals in the third period to lift the Monsters past host Chicago, 6-3, on Feb. 18. Cleveland went 2-1 on its three-game weekend trip and improved to 29-15-2-2. Hunter McKown and Roman Ahcan scored empty-net goals late in the third period for the final margin. […]

After winning in the last second of overtime in their previous game, there was no such drama in the Monsters’ contest at Grand Rapids on Dec. 31. The Griffins dominated, 5-1, ending the Monsters’ seven-game winning streak. The Griffins scored the first five goals of the game. They kept the Monsters off the scoreboard until 7:15 remaining in the third period, when Mikael Pyyhtia scored on a power play. Trey Fix-Wolansky and Marcus Bjork assisted on Pyyhtia’s goal. Fix-Wolansky h...

After winning in the last second of overtime in their previous game, there was no such drama in the Monsters’ contest at Grand Rapids on Dec. 31. The Griffins dominated, 5-1, ending the Monsters’ seven-game winning streak. The Griffins scored the first five goals of the game. They kept the Monsters off the scoreboard until […]

Owen Sillinger scored a power-play goal with one second remaining in overtime, lifting the visiting Monsters past Chicago, 4-3, on Dec. 30. Sillinger was assisted by Mikael Pyyhtia and Marcus Bjork. Sillinger had two goals for the game and now has five for the season. Mikael Pyyhtia and Billy Sweezey also tallied for Cleveland (21-7-1-0). […]

Chris Peters breaks down the four Columbus prospects expected to represent their countries starting next week

Left winger James Malatesta scored two goals, and the Monsters had no problem with visiting Belleville, 5-1, on Dec. 14. Malatesta, a 2021 fifth-round pick, has seven goals this season. Marcus Bjork added a power-play goal, and Roman Ahcan and Corson Ceulemans each tallied once. Hunter McKown had four assists. Jet Greaves made 33 saves. The Monsters held Belleve to 0 of 3 on power plays. Cleveland (15-7-1-0) was playing its first home game in 11 days. The victory ended a two-game skid. The teams...