CLEVELAND 4, MARLIES 2

TORONTO MARLIES (24-17-3-1 – 52 Points) vs.
CLEVELAND MONSTERS (19-21-6-4 – 48 Points)

SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 2022

	1	2	3	OT	FINAL
TORONTO	1	1	0	–	2
CLEVELAND	0	1	3	–	4

GAME SUMMARY    |    GAME SHEET |    PHOTOS    |      SCRUMS

SCORING SUMMARY

Toronto: J. Ho-Sang (12) (M. Abramov, J. Kopacka), S. Der-Arguchintsev (11) (J. Ho-Sang)
Goaltender: J. Woll (33/37) L    

Cleveland: J. Christiansen (7) (R. Payne, K. Stenlund), R. Payne (4) (T. Schemitsch, T. Sikura), D. Simpson (4) (T. Angle, T. Sikura), R. Payne (5) (J. Christiansen, K. Stenlund)
Goaltender: J. Greaves (25/27) W 

ON THE SCORESHEET

• Josh Ho-Sang opened the scoring at 2:26 of the first period and later added the lone assist on Der-Arguchintsev’s second period goal. He has 22 points (12 goals, 10 assists) in 29 games this season.
• Semyon Der-Arguchintsev scored at 15:30 of the second period. He has 26 points (11 goals, 15 assists) in 41 games this season.
• Mikhail Abramov recorded the primary assist on Ho-Sang’s first period goal. He has 22 points (4 goals, 18 assists) in 44 games this season.
• Jack Kopacka registered the secondary assist on Ho-Sang’s first period goal. He has 13 points (6 goals, 7 assists) in 36 games this season.
• Joseph Woll stopped 33 of 37 shots he faced

OF NOTE

• Toronto went 2-for-2 on the penalty kill and 0-for-3 on the power play. Toronto is 6-8-2-1 when not scoring on the power play and 12-8-1-0 when not allowing a goal on the penalty kill.
• Cleveland had a 37-27 edge in shots in all situations. Joseph Duszak led the Marlies with seven shots on goal and set a career-high in a single game. Toronto is 15-12-2-1 when outshot by their opponents.
• The Marlies are 14-11-2-1 against North Division opponents and 2-2-1-0 against the Monsters. Toronto has been outscored 21-15 through five games.

RECORD WHEN Scoring first                            18-3-1-1 Leading after 1                        13-2-2-1 Leading after 2                         18-2-2-1 On the road                             12-9-2-1 March                                      0-2-0-0 Saturday                                  8-5-2-0

MARLIES LEADERS *Amongst active players Goals               19 (J. Anderson) Assists            31 (J. Duszak) Points              39 (B. Seney) PPG                 6 (J. Anderson) Shots               115 (A. Steeves) +/-                    +14 (B. Seney) PIMS                84 (R. Clune)

POSTGAME QUOTES

HEAD COACH GREG MOORE

On trends in the team’s recent losses:

I would say it’s even longer then that in terms of inconsistent play. It appears to be fighting some positive energy, momentum. We’ve got to find a way to turn things around and find some of the pushback and the game play that we found about a month ago.

On Joseph Woll’s performance:
He played really well for us. We needed to be way better in front of him. We were pretty fortunate for the score to be what it was going into the third period. We’ve got to value more of how we defend in front of our goalies. They’ve been playing well all year and there’s still too much work for them.

JOSEPH DUSZAK

On the team’s recent play:
In February, we were sticking up for each other. Even in the last couple of games, we were sticking up for each other, being hard to play against. I feel teams now are just coming in and they see the Marlies on the schedule and they know it’s going to be an easy game because we’re just not working, we’re not competing. We just don’t have that mentality that we’re going to go out and kind of the (screw) you mentality and we just don’t have it.

UPCOMING GAMES:
*All times Eastern Standard Time

March 6 at Cleveland – 12:00 p.m.
March 8 vs. Providence – 3:00 p.m.
March 9 vs. Abbotsford – 11:00 a.m.
March 11 at Utica – 7:00 p.m.
March 12 at Syracuse – 7:00 p.m.