{"id":323974,"date":"2025-12-01T11:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/323974\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T11:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:42:08","slug":"cossa-leonard-step-up-again-red-hot-griffins-win-fifth-in-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/323974\/","title":{"rendered":"Cossa, Leonard step up again, red-hot Griffins win fifth in row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/griffins\/\" title=\"Navigate to Griffins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Griffins<\/a>Published: Nov. 30, 2025, 8:00 p.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Sebastian Cossa\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/JMPCQR7FPZHTXMHQWOFSF6PDGQ.jpg\"  \/>Sebastian Cossa leads the AHL in goals-against average and save percentage.(Nicolas Carrillo\/Grand Rapids Griffins)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"3BTD4ETDKBCLBOVHQTXAQUFJEA\">Sebastian Cossa made 26 saves and John Leonard scored his AHL-leading 16th goal Sunday as the Grand Rapids Griffins defeated the Iowa Wild 1-0 at Van Andel Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"JWOXZDAGNZCTBJU4SG3A54RJHI\">The Griffins extended their franchise-best start to 16-1-0-1, winning their fifth in a row and improving their league-best points percentage to .917 (33 of 36 possible points).<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"A5YZXKWNGZCVTCINULOEWEWKPE\">It was Cossa\u2019s second shutout this season and fifth of his AHL career as he improved to 8-1-0. He leads the league in goals-against average (1.56) and save percentage (.942).<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"NW7AEJZXVJCUREIMWMNQ2M7NKM\">Leonard scored the game\u2019s lone goal at 5:45 of the second period, on an assist from Erik Gustafsson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KND6UITVZ5F7TLEFACVIK7CQDE\">The Griffins host Cleveland (6-6-3-1, 16 points) on Wednesday (7 p.m.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GriffinsPublished: Nov. 30, 2025, 8:00 p.m.Sebastian Cossa leads the AHL in goals-against average and save percentage.(Nicolas Carrillo\/Grand Rapids&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-323974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}