AHL Playoff Preview: Laval Rocket at Cleveland Monsters with Line Combinations 5/2/2025

AHL Playoff Preview: Laval Rocket at Cleveland Monsters with Line Combinations 5/2/2025
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Game 2: Laval Rocket at Cleveland Monsters

Venue: Rocket Arena
Date: Friday, May 2
Time: 7:00 pm EDT
TV: FLO Sports 

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Laval Rocket News & Notes:

The Rocket picked up a 3-2 win over the Monsters on Wednesday to start the series. Jacob Fowler stopped 23 of the 25 shots he faced in Wednesday night’s win.

Cleveland MonstersNews & Notes:

The Monsters hung around on Wednesday night against the top team in the whole AHL. Jet Greaves got the start for Cleveland, stopping 29 of the 32 shots he faced. Through three games in the playoffs, Greaves is posting a 2.39 goals-against average and a .912 save percentage.

Laval Rocket Projected Lines

Farrell-Dauphin-Barre-Boulet
Harvey-Pinard-Condotta-Simoneau
Roy-Gignac-Beck
Davidson-Xhekaj-Tuch

Wotherspoon-Lindstrom
Trudeau-Mailloux
Engstrom-Reinbacher

Fowler
Cavallin

Cleveland Monsters Projected Lines

Pyyhtia-Del Bel Belluz-Fix-Wolansky
Grimaldi-McKown-Pearson
Pinelli-Gambrell-Ahcan
Malatesta-Labate-Brindley

Mateychuk-Bowey
Bjorgvik-Holm-Clayton
Richard-Svozil

Greaves
Sawchenko

Players To Watch:

Laval Rocket

Sean Farrell leads the team in points and goals after game one, as he scored two goals in Wednesday’s 3-2 win. Alex Barre-Boulet, Laurent Dauphin, Adam Engstrom, Brandon Gignac, and Logan Mailloux all had assists. Engstrom and David Reinbacher are both plus-two.

Cleveland Monsters

Denton Mateychuk leads the Monsters in points and in goals with five points and three goals. Madison Bowey and Trey Fix-Wolansky each have three assists to lead Cleveland. Bowey, Luca Pinelli, Guillaume Richard, and Stanislav Svozil are all plus-two.

Next Game

Game 3: Sunday, May 4 at Place Bell

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