{"id":361093,"date":"2025-12-21T03:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T03:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/361093\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T03:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T03:08:08","slug":"cleveland-monsters-pinelli-sends-30164-stuffed-animals-flying-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/361093\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Monsters | PINELLI SENDS 30,164 STUFFED ANIMALS FLYING IN\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 20, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Written By: Nicole Del Villano<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">The Cleveland Monsters beat the Laval Rocket (17-10-0-1) 2-0 in front of 16,248 fans on Saturday night at\u00a0Rocket Arena.\u00a0The 30,164 stuffed animals thrown during the team\u2019s Teddy Bear Toss powered by NOPEC sets a new franchise high while the 16,248 fans in attendance are the most at a regular season Monsters game at Rocket Arena since 2019.\u00a0With the win, the Monsters are now 12-9-3-1 and are currently in fifth place in the AHL\u2019s North Division standings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Luca Pinelli\u00a0sent the stuffed animals flying with his power-play goal at 15:26 of the opening frame assisted by Jordan Dumais and Owen Sillinger\u00a0sending the Monsters to the first intermission leading 1-0. Following a scoreless second period, Roman Ahcan\u00a0put away an unassisted empty-net tally at 19:53 bringing the final score to 2-0. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Cleveland\u2019s Ivan Fedotov\u00a0made 18 saves for the win while Laval\u2019s Samuel Montembeault\u00a0made 27 saves in defeat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">The Monsters hit the road to visit the Grand Rapids Griffins on Sunday, December 21, at 4:00 p.m. at Van Andel Arena.\u00a0Follow the games with full coverage on SportsRadio 99.1 Powered by Rock Entertainment Group, AHLTV on FloHockey and the Monsters Hockey Network.<\/p>\n<p>Stay up to date on all Monsters news with the Monsters Mobile App presented by University Hospitals available to download at the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/cleveland-monsters\/id1484726236?ls=1\">Apple Store<\/a> or\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.yinzcam.ahl.monsters\">Google Play Store<\/a>. Be sure to follow the Monsters on\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/monstershockey\">X<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/monstershockey\">Facebook<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/monstershockey\/\">Instagram<\/a> and\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@monstershockey?lang=en\">TikTok<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Shots\/Special Teams:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Shots<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">PP<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">PK<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">PIM<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">CLE<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">29<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">1\/4<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">3\/3<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">11 min \/ 4 inf<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">LAV<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">18<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">0\/3<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">3\/4<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">13 min \/ 5 inf<\/p>\n<p>Goaltenders:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Goaltender<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Outcome<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Saves<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">GA<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Record<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">CLE<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Fedotov<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">W<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">18<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">7-7-2<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">LAV<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Montembeault<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">L<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">27<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">1<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">0-2-0<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland Record:\u00a012-9-3-1, 5th North Division<\/p>\n<p>Laval Record:\u00a017-10-0-1, 1st North Division<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/lscluster.hockeytech.com\/game_reports\/official-game-report.php?lang_id=1&amp;client_code=ahl&amp;game_id=1028192\">GAME SHEET<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/clevelandmonsters\/\">GAME PHOTOS<\/a> \u2013\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/monstershockeyahl\">GAME HIGHLIGHTS<\/a>*<\/p>\n<p>*Game highlights will appear as soon as possible following video processing.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 20, 2025 Written By: Nicole Del Villano The Cleveland Monsters beat the Laval Rocket (17-10-0-1) 2-0 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[178175,385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-361093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-cleveland-monsters-ahl","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361093","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=361093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}