{"id":663309,"date":"2026-05-25T02:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T02:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/663309\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T02:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T02:12:09","slug":"marlies-shock-monsters-advance-to-east-finals-theahl-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/663309\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlies shock Monsters, advance to East finals | TheAHL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Toronto Marlies secured a spot in the Eastern Conference Finals on Sunday with a stunning 3-2 win over the Cleveland Monsters in the deciding Game 5 of the teams\u2019 North Division finals series.<\/p>\n

Toronto advances to face the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins in the Eastern Conference Finals, with Game 1 set for Wednesday in Wilkes-Barre. It will be the Marlies\u2019 seventh conference finals appearance \u2013 the first since 2019.<\/p>\n

Easton Cowan<\/a> scored the winning goal with 11.3 seconds left in regulation, after captain Logan Shaw<\/a> had tied the game with 4:30 remaining.<\/p>\n

Stationed at the side of the net, Cowan converted a tap-in after Vinni Lettieri<\/a> partially fanned on a shot in front. Lettieri finished the afternoon with three points, also assisting on Shaw\u2019s equalizer after scoring his sixth goal of the playoffs back in the first period.<\/p>\n

Toronto, which also trailed by a goal entering the third period of Game 5 at Laval in the division semifinals, won its third winner-take-all game of this postseason. Artur Akhtyamov<\/a> (7-4) made 22 saves in the victory.<\/p>\n

Zach Aston-Reese<\/a> and Hudson Fasching<\/a> scored for Cleveland, and Zach Sawchenko<\/a> (5-3) finished with 21 stops.<\/p>\n

Attendance at Rocket Arena was 12,090.<\/p>\n

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(Toronto wins series, 3-2)
Game 1 \u2013 Thu., May 14 \u2013 Toronto 5, CLEVELAND 2<\/a>
Game 2 \u2013 Sat., May 16 \u2013 CLEVELAND 3, Toronto 1<\/a>
Game 3 \u2013 Wed., May 20 \u2013 Cleveland 4, TORONTO 0<\/a>
Game 4 \u2013 Fri., May 22 \u2013 TORONTO 5, Cleveland 2<\/a>
Game 5 \u2013 Sun., May 24 \u2013 Toronto 3, CLEVELAND 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Marlies secured a spot in the Eastern Conference Finals on Sunday with a stunning 3-2 win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-663309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663309","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=663309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}