Monsters face Griffins in final game of home stand
The Cleveland Monsters finish off their home stand with a matchup with the visting Grand Rapids Griffins before heading out on the road.
One game left in the home stand. That’s it for the Cleveland Monsters before they head out on a two-and-a-half week road trip. Before they leave they have to take on the Grand Rapids Griffins Tuesday at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. Cleveland will look to bounce back from Sunday’s disappointing 4-0 loss to Binghamton.
Grand Rapids comes in just a little bit ahead in the points department (51-48), which is good for 4th place in the Central Division. The Griffins are 5-2-1-2 in their past 10 games. Like Cleveland, Grand Rapids has a negative goal differential on the season (-16).
Chris Terry leads Grand Rapids in total points, goals, and assists. Terry has 45 points on the year with 18 goals and 27 assists in 48 games. Looking at the goaltenders for Grand Rapids, Calvin Pickard is their leading goaltender on the year. Pickard has appeared in 28 games with a 2.84 goals against average. Pickard has a save percentage of .904 this season. The only other goalie who has appeared in move than eight games this season is Pat Nagle (11 games). Nagle has a 2.19 goals allowed average with a .922 save percentage.
