{"id":385547,"date":"2026-01-03T14:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/385547\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T14:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:11:09","slug":"griffins-sebastian-cossa-first-in-five-years-to-accomplish-this-feat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/385547\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffins\u2019 Sebastian Cossa first in five years to accomplish this feat"},"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>Updated: Jan. 02, 2026, 4:52 p.m.|Published: Jan. 02, 2026, 4:41 p.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Sebastian Cossa\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6O76OUZ7UBGOBIJR5AOLJOPMEE.jpg\"  \/>Griffins goaltender Sebastian Cossa leads the AHL in wins, goals-against average, save percentage and shutouts.(Nicolas Carrillo\/Grand Rapids Griffins)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YYN6LGKBAZGQDPVFDQBMZYDBTE\">The Grand Rapids Griffins\u2019 Sebastian Cossa today became the first player in nearly five years to win consecutive AHL goaltender of the month awards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"LCMJAKJLXFFH3PJ5AWG5YUIEWQ\">Cossa went 7-0-1 in December, posting a 1.76 goals-against average, a .929 save percentage and two shutouts in eight starts to help the Griffins on their historic start to the season (26-1-1-1, 54 points).<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ANXWVQUVZVERFK573OHYD4MTLU\">Logan Thompson was the most recent player to win back-to-back goalie of the month honors in February and March of 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"MK6XZ3YTCFA3BHZFCB6RMHVDRA\">The Detroit Red Wings selected Cossa, 23, in the first round in 2021 (15th overall). He leads the AHL in wins (15-1-1), GAA (1.65), save percentage (.936) and shutouts (four). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GriffinsUpdated: Jan. 02, 2026, 4:52 p.m.|Published: Jan. 02, 2026, 4:41 p.m.Griffins goaltender Sebastian Cossa leads the AHL in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-385547","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\/385547","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=385547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}