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2007-08 Inaugural Season Goalie Jersey

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AHL Officially Licensed On-Ice Jersey

Made in Canada

Jersey Size (please see actual measurements): 58

Approximate Width (Chest Measurement): 33-34" Across / 66-68" Completely Around (please see photos)

Approximate Length (Top Center Back Neck Collar To Center Back Bottom): 34-35" (please see photos)

Approximate Sleeve Underseam Length (arm pit seam to bottom sleeve cuff): 21-22" (please see photos)

Approximate Sleeve Topseam Length (top neck/collar opening to top arm sleeve cuff opening): 33-34"

Approximate Sleeve Band Opening: 8-9" Across / 16-18" Completely Around (please see photos)

Jersey Material #1: 100% Polyester

Jersey Material #2: 85% Polyester / 15% Spandex

Jersey Material #3: 90% Polyester / 10% Spandex

Jersey Care: Machine Washable (cold water)

Jersey Center Front Chest Tackle-Twill Sewn-On "M" Logo Patch (approx. 12" x 12")

Jersey Left Shoulder Sleeve Tackle-Twill Sewn-On Monsters Logo Patch (approx. 7" x 3")

Jersey Right Shoulder Sleeve Tackle-Twill Sewn-On Colorado Avalanche Logo Patch (approx. 4" x 4")

Jersey Center Upper Back Embroidered Sewn-On Reebok Logo Patch (approx. 4" x 1")

Jersey Center Bottom Back Tail Embroidered Sewn-On Reebok Logo Patch (approx. 4" x 1")

Jersey Center Bottom Back Tail Embroidered Sewn-On AHL Logo Patch (approx. 3" x 1.5")

The Cleveland Monsters are a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League (AHL). The team began play in 2007 as the Lake Erie Monsters and since 2015 has served as the top affiliate of the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Monsters play home games at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in downtown Cleveland and have one Calder Cup championship, after winning their first title in 2016.

The Monsters began in 2006 when the dormant Utah Grizzlies AHL franchise was purchased on May 16, 2006, by a Cleveland ownership group led by Dan Gilbert, owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Quicken Loans.[2] A new AHL team was awarded to Cleveland following the departure of the Cleveland Barons to Worcester, Massachusetts, after the 2005–06 season.[3] With Quicken Loans Arena established as the team's home venue, the Colorado Avalanche was announced on December 17, 2006, as the franchise's first NHL parent club with a five-year agreement.[2][4]

The franchise was officially announced on January 25, 2007, as the Lake Erie Monsters, referring to Bessie, a creature of local folklore. The name was chosen from researching focus groups around the Cleveland area and the logo incorporated the geographical connection in the region with Lake Erie.[5]

Former NHL player Joe Sacco was named as the Lake Erie Monsters first head coach and Dave Oliver was named general manager.[6][7] The Monsters opened their inaugural 2007–08 campaign with a loss at home against the Grand Rapids Griffins on October 6, 2007.[8] The team ended the season 26–41.[9]

At the end of the 2010–11 season, the Monsters qualified for the Calder Cup playoffs for the first time in team history. After gaining a 3–1 series lead over the Manitoba Moose in the opening round, the Monsters proceeded to lose the next three consecutive games, losing the series 4–3.

On April 17, 2015, the Monsters announced the signing of a multi-year agreement to become the AHL affiliate for the Columbus Blue Jackets, which took effect in the 2015–16 season.[11] The multi-season affiliation was extended in 2019.[12][13]

The Monsters finished the 2015–16 season by setting a franchise record in points (97) and qualified for the playoffs for the second time in team history.[14] On April 23, 2016, the Monsters defeated their first round opponent, the Rockford IceHogs, 5–3, ending a three-game sweep of their opponent in a best-of-five series.[15][16] The Monsters advanced to the Western Conference Semifinals to play the Grand Rapids Griffins in a best-of-seven series, defeating them 4–2. They then swept the defending Calder Cup Champion Ontario Reign in the Western Conference Finals to reach their first Calder Cup Final in franchise history.[17] On June 11, 2016, the Monsters won the franchise's first Calder Cup in a four-game sweep of the Hershey Bears, with Oliver Bjorkstrand scoring the Cup-winning goal in overtime.[17][18]

This marked Cleveland's first AHL title since the Barons won their last Calder Cup in 1964, and 10th overall for a Cleveland-based AHL team.[17] The Monsters won Game 4 before a sellout crowd of 19,665 people at Quicken Loans Arena — the second largest crowd for a professional hockey game in Ohio behind the 19,941 in a Cleveland Lumberjacks game against the Minnesota Moose in February 1996, and the second largest in Calder Cup playoff history behind the 20,103 Philadelphia Phantoms game four victory in the 2005 Calder Cup Finals over the Chicago Wolves.[19]

On August 9, 2016, the Lake Erie Monsters changed their name to the Cleveland Monsters.[20] The team's Calder Cup winning head coach, Jared Bednar, was then hired by the Colorado Avalanche on August 25.[21] Under their new name and coach John Madden, the Monsters failed to qualify for the playoffs in the 2016–17 season.[22][23][24] In the 2017–18 season, the Monsters earned last place in the Western Conference and failed to make the playoffs.[25] The team returned to the playoffs following the 2018–19 season as the fourth seed in the North Division where they upset the division champion Syracuse Crunch before being swept by the Toronto Marlies in the division finals.[26][27] Head coach John Madden then left the team and was replaced by Mike Eaves.[28][29]

The Monsters 2019–20 season was curtailed by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.[30] The team ended the season in last place in their division with a record of 24–31.[31][32] Owing to the ongoing effects of the pandemic, the 2020–21 season was delayed and shortened with no playoffs held in their division.[33] They ended the season in second place within their division.

The following teams have previously played in Cleveland. The Monsters recognize and honor past Cleveland teams with commemorative banners at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse:[35][36]

Cleveland Indians/Falcons/Barons (1929–1936 IHL; 1936–1973 AHL) — nine-time Calder Cup champions[35]

Cleveland Crusaders (1972–1976) WHA

Cleveland Barons (1976–1978) NHL

Cleveland Lumberjacks (1992–2001) IHL

Cleveland Barons (2001–2006) AHL

The following players have played both 100 games with the Monsters and 100 games in the National Hockey League:

Patrick Bordeleau

Paul Carey

Ryan Craig

Zac Dalpe

Philippe Dupuis

Nathan Gerbe

T.J. Hensick

Dean Kukan

Brad Malone

Sonny Milano

Calvin Pickard

Kevin Stenlund

Team records

Single season

Goals: 33, Zac Dalpe (2018–19)

Assists: 50, T.J. Hensick (2009–10)

Points: 71 Trey Fix-Wolansky (2022–23)

Penalty minutes: 215, Daniel Maggio (2014–15)

Wins: 28, Jet Greaves (2023-24)

GAA: 2.11, Cedrick Desjardins (2011–12)

SV%: .932, Cedrick Desjardins (2011–12)

Shutouts: 8, Tyler Weiman (2008–09)

Goaltending records need a minimum 25 games played by the goaltender

Playoffs

Goals: 10, Oliver Bjorkstrand (2016)

Assists: 10, Ryan Craig (2016)

Points: 16 (tie), Oliver Bjorkstrand and Lukas Sedlak (2016)

Penalty minutes: 26, Kerby Rychel (2016)

Wins: 9, Anton Forsberg (2016)

GAA: 1.34, Anton Forsberg (2016)

SV%: .949, Anton Forsberg (2016)

Shutouts: 2, Anton Forsberg (2016)

Career

Career goals: Trey Fix-Wolansky, 69

Career assists: Andrew Agozzino, 98

Career points: Trey Fix-Wolansky, 165

Career penalty minutes: Brett Gallant, 663

Career goaltending wins: Calvin Pickard, 60

Career shutouts: Tyler Weiman, 13

Career games: Justin Scott, 336

Firsts and team records

First game: October 6, 2007, vs. Grand Rapids Griffins

First win: October 20, 2007, 3–2 vs. Syracuse Crunch

First goal: Matt Hussey (October 6, 2007 vs. Grand Rapids Griffins)

First shutout: Jason Bacashihua (November 15, 2007, vs. Quad City Flames)

First hat trick: Chris Stewart (November 17, 2007, vs. Toronto Marlies)

Most goals in a game: 4 by Patrick Rissmiller (December 3, 2010, vs. Chicago Wolves)

Most wins in a season: 44 (2010–11)

Most home wins in a season: 25 (2015–16)

Most points in a season: 97 (2015–16)

Most games won in a row: 8 (2010–11)

First playoff game: April 16, 2011. (vs. Manitoba Moose)

First playoff goal: April 16, 2011 (by Matthew Ford)

First playoff win: April 16, 2011 (Monsters 6, Manitoba Moose 4)

First playoff series win: April 23, 2016 (Monsters won series 3–0 vs. Rockford IceHogs)

First Western Conference championship: May 26, 2016 (Monsters won series 4–0 vs. Ontario Reign)

First Calder Cup championship: June 11, 2016 (Monsters won series 4–0 vs. Hershey Bears)

Radio

WARF AM 1350 serves as the radio outlet for the team. Play-by-play announcer Tony Brown calls games on-site.

Select Monsters games will be televised, with Bally Sports Great Lakes serving as the outlet. The broadcast team consists of play-by-play broadcaster Tony Brown, former Monsters goaltender and current Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender development coach Brad Thiessen as booth analyst, former Cleveland Lumberjacks player Jock Callander as rinkside analyst, and WHBC afternoon host Kenny Roda as host/locker room reporter. All televised games are also simulcast on the radio.

The Monsters' official mascot is a seagull character named "Sullivan C. Goal" (aka "Sully").[43] Also featured are the "Monsters Hockey Girls" cheerleaders.[44] In March 2023 the Monsters unveiled "The Modelo Experience" which allows fans the opportunity to take ride on a custom made "fanboni" built by Cleveland Power and Performance.

The CLEVELAND MONSTERS, formerly known as the Lake Erie Monsters, are a member of the American Hockey League and the top affiliate of the National Hockey League's Columbus Blue Jackets. They played the 2007-08 season, their first in Cleveland, at the QUICKEN LOANS ARENA. Despite their sub-500 record during their first season, the team drew a respectable number of fans for their home matches, ranking eleventh in overall AHL attendance.

When the CLEVELAND BARONS left the city for Worcester, Massachusetts, in 2006, the CLEVELAND CAVALIERS' principle owner Dan Gilbert led a group of investors in purchasing the dormant Utah Grizzlies franchise. The Monsters share a partnership with the Cavaliers to share personnel on the business end of the teams, as well as television broadcasting on Fox Sports Net Ohio. The team pays the Columbus Blue Jackets an undisclosed affiliation fee, while the Blue Jackets handle all hockey-related decisions.

The Lake Erie Monsters drew roughly 15,000 fans to their opening game in Cleveland, and drew 238,965 over the course of their 40 home matches. Their final home game of the season drew 15,408 which was the largest attendance total among the 29 teams of the AHL for the season. Throughout their first season the Monsters averaged 5,974 fans per game. They drew bigger crowds on the weekends, where they averaged 7,302 fans.

Under first year coach Joe Sacco the Monsters finished sixth out of seven teams in the North Division of the Western Conference with a 26 and 41 record.

In the 2015-2016 season, the Monsters entered their "New Affliate Era," changing their association with the Colorado Avalanche to the Columbus Blue Jackets as part of a larger restructuring of the AHL affiliations to pair NHL and AHL teams who were geographically closer to one another.

On 12 June 2016, the Monsters won the Calder Cup Championship, the first in the franchise's history, and the tenth for the city of Cleveland. Led by head coach Jared Bednar, and team captain Ryan Craig, the team went 35-29-8-5 in the regular season, and 15-2 through the playoffs - the most dominant postseason run in AHL history. The final game was won in overtime against the Hershey Bears, with a final score of 1-0. The game winning goal was scored by Oliver Bjorkstrand, the winner of the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy as the AHL's playoff MVP. Attendance was 19,665 people; the second largest crowd in Calder Cup playoff history.

At the start of the 2016-2017 season, the team was renamed the Cleveland Monsters, the new name and emphasis on the colors wine and gold tying them more closely to the Cleveland Cavaliers, with whom they share the Quicken Loans Arena. In addition, a new head coach was appointed, with John Madden taking over for Bednar. The Monsters finished fifth in the Central Division, but ranked second in attendance for the entirety of the AHL, with an average of 9,055 fans per game.

With the 2017-2018 expansion of the NHL came an expansion and restructuring of the AHL for the following season. These changes led to the Cleveland Monsters moving from the Central Division in the Western Conference to the North Division in the Eastern.

CCM Hockey is a Canadian brand of ice hockey equipment owned by Birch Hill Equity Partners through its portfolio company Sport Maska Inc. The history of the brand traces to 1905, when Canada Cycle and Motor Limited, founded in 1899, began manufacturing hockey equipment as a secondary business. After Canada Cycle went bankrupt in 1982, it sold off its cycling and hockey divisions to separate owners. The hockey division was acquired by Sport Maska, a Quebec-based manufacturer of jerseys.

In 1991, Sport Maska was placed under the ownership of a new holding company called SLM International. By 1998, SLM's portfolio of brands had grown to include Canadien, CCM, Heaton, Jofa, Koho, and Titan, and in 1999 SLM changed its name to The Hockey Company. In 2004, Reebok purchased The Hockey Company, but a year later was itself purchased by Adidas. In 2017, Adidas sold all of its hockey operations and brand rights, which remained consolidated under Sport Maska, to the private equity firm Birch Hill Equity Partners.

CCM's range of products for hockey includes sticks, skates, helmets, shoulder pads, elbow pads, goaltender masks, goaltender pads, goaltender gloves, knee pads, throat collars, and team uniforms for the American Hockey League.

Joseph William Sacco (born February 4, 1969) is an American former National Hockey League player and currently an assistant coach for the Boston Bruins.[1] His younger brother David Sacco also played in the NHL.

As a youth, Sacco played in the 1982 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with the Boston Braves minor ice hockey team.[2]

Drafted in the 1987 NHL Entry Draft by the Toronto Maple Leafs, Sacco played for Boston University before joining the Leafs. Sacco also played for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, New York Islanders, Washington Capitals, and Philadelphia Flyers. In 738 NHL games, he had 94 goals and 119 assists.

International play

Played for USA in:

1989 World Ice Hockey Championships

1990 World Ice Hockey Championships

1991 World Ice Hockey Championships

1992 Winter Olympics

1992 World Ice Hockey Championships

1994 World Ice Hockey Championships

1996 World Ice Hockey Championships

2002 World Ice Hockey Championships

Coaching career

In the 2005–06 season, two years into retirement from playing, Sacco was hired as an assistant coach for the Lowell Lock Monsters, affiliate of the Colorado Avalanche. On May 7, 2007, after two years as an assistant, Sacco was named head coach of the Colorado Avalanche's new AHL franchise, the Lake Erie Monsters.[4] Sacco then led the Monsters for the next two seasons and while recording somewhat unimpressive season's numbers with limited resources was credited with helping development of younger players to the NHL.[5]

On June 4, 2009, a day after Avalanche head coach Tony Granato was fired, Sacco was promoted and later introduced as the new head coach of the Colorado Avalanche for the 2009–10 season, a job former Avs great Patrick Roy turned down days prior.[6] After being projected finishing 15th in the Western Conference by most hockey pundits, Sacco coached the Avalanche to the 2010 Stanley Cup Playoffs posting a record of 43–30–9 in his rookie year of coaching in the NHL.[3] His team would end up being eliminated in the first round after six games by the San Jose Sharks. On April 28, 2010, Sacco was named a finalist for the Jack Adams Award for NHL coach of the year alongside Dave Tippett of the Phoenix Coyotes and Barry Trotz of the Nashville Predators.[1]

Following the 2012–13 season, his fourth year at the helm, finishing last in the Western Conference and out of the playoffs for a third consecutive year, Sacco was relieved of his duties on April 28, 2013.[7] It brought an end to his eight-year association with the Avalanche.[8]

On July 2, 2013, the Buffalo Sabres hired Sacco as an assistant coach.[9]

On July 24, 2014, the Boston Bruins hired Sacco as their assistant coach.

William Darren "Jock" Callander (born April 23, 1961) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player, and current front office executive, part-time assistant coach, and TV analyst for the Cleveland Monsters of the American Hockey League.

Callander, the younger brother of NHL player Drew, replaced a small NHL career with a historic one in the IHL. Never drafted, he had brief stops with the St. Louis Blues, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Tampa Bay Lightning, but with the Muskegon/Cleveland Lumberjacks he was sensational, registering 1,242 career points, only 10 points behind Len Thornson's IHL record.[1]

Callander started slowly in junior with the Regina Pats, but in his last two seasons he produced staggering totals of 146 goals and 343 points, leading the league in 1981–82. Nonetheless, he was never drafted by an NHL team, signing with St. Louis as a free agent, though never playing for the Blues. Instead, he had to settle for a start in the CHL and IHL, where he spent the first five pro years of his career. He signed with Pittsburgh, and over the next three years split his time between the Penguins and the IHL.[1]

The highlight of his NHL time came in 1991–92. After playing the whole year with Muskegon, he came up to the Penguins for the playoffs, appearing in a dozen games en route to the Stanley Cup.[2] At the 1992 victory celebration for the Pittsburgh Penguins at Three Rivers Stadium, Callander lost his watch to a fan who had inadvertently grabbed it while slapping hands. Over the summer, though, he became a free agent and Pittsburgh did not sign him; instead, he went to Tampa Bay. Callander played eight games with the Lightning and most of the next eight years back in the IHL with Cleveland.

Callander retired from hockey following the 1999–2000 season and became an assistant coach for Cleveland in 2000–01 before joining the Houston Aeros the following year.

In 2007, Callander returned to Cleveland to work with the city's then-new American Hockey League franchise, the Lake Erie Monsters. He is a color analyst for the team's TV broadcasts,[3] serves as an assistant coach for games not televised, and works in the team's front office as Vice President of Hockey Affairs and Team Services.[4]

Muskegon retired his number 15 jersey before a Muskegon Lumberjacks (1992–2010) game at the L. C. Walker Arena on October 23, 2009. [5]

On December 16, 2011, before a Monsters game at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Callander had his number 15 retired in honor of his career as a member of the Lumberjacks, as well as his involvement in hockey initiatives in the Cleveland area.

Awards and honors:

Bob Brownridge Memorial Trophy (WHL leading scorer) - 1982

Two-time IHL All-Star Team Selection - 1987, 1992[1]

Leo P. Lamoureux Memorial Trophy (Leading Scorer - IHL) (1987) (tied with Jeff Pyle)[1]

James Gatschene Memorial Trophy (MVP - IHL) (1987) (co-winner - Jeff Pyle)

1992 Stanley Cup Championship (as a member of the Pittsburgh Penguins)[2]

Two-time Turner Cup Champion (as a member of the Muskegon Lumberjacks) - 1986, 1989[7]

2016 Calder Cup Champion (as an assistant coach/front office executive/announcer for the Lake Erie Monsters)

Number 15 retired by:

the Cleveland Monsters

the Muskegon/Cleveland Lumberjacks

the Regina Pats

Cleveland Monsters [AHL] Parent Teams

Season Parent Team League

2007-2015 Colorado Avalanche NHL

2015-2023 Columbus Blue Jackets NHL

The Colorado Avalanche (colloquially known as the Avs) are a professional ice hockey team based in Denver. The Avalanche compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central Division in the Western Conference. The team plays its home games at Ball Arena, which it shares with the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Denver Nuggets and Colorado Mammoth of the National Lacrosse League (NLL).

Founded in 1972 as the Quebec Nordiques, the team was one of the charter franchises of the World Hockey Association (WHA). The franchise joined the NHL in 1979 as a result of the NHL–WHA merger. Following the 1994–95 season, they were sold to the COMSAT Entertainment Group and moved to Denver.

During their first season in Denver, the Avalanche won the Pacific Division and went on to sweep the Florida Panthers in the 1996 Stanley Cup Finals. The 1996 Avalanche became the first Denver-based team in the four major North American professional sports leagues to win a league championship. They were also the second major North American sports team to win a championship a year after moving, joining the National Football League (NFL)'s 1937 Washington Redskins. In the 2001 Stanley Cup Finals, the Avalanche defeated the New Jersey Devils in seven games to win their second championship. In the 2022 Stanley Cup Finals, the Avalanche defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning in six games to win their third championship. As a result, they remain the only active NHL team that has won all of its appearances in the Stanley Cup Finals.

The Avalanche have won twelve division titles since moving to Denver (and set the league record for most consecutive division titles at nine in a row from 1995 to 2003; one in Quebec, the rest in Colorado), and qualified for the playoffs in each of their first ten seasons after the move; this streak ended in 2007.

The Columbus Blue Jackets (often simply referred to as the Jackets) are a professional ice hockey team based in Columbus, Ohio. The Blue Jackets compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern Conference, and began play as an expansion team in 2000.[5]

The franchise struggled in their initial years, failing to win 30 games in a season until 2005–06. The team qualified for the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in 2009, but were swept by the Detroit Red Wings.[6] Columbus ultimately notched their first playoff game victory in the 2014 playoffs, and won their first playoff series in the 2019 playoffs against the Tampa Bay Lightning, becoming the first team in NHL history to sweep a Presidents' Trophy winner in the first round. Along with the Seattle Kraken, the Blue Jackets are one of only two teams in the league who have yet to appear in the conference finals.

The Blue Jackets' name and logos are inspired by Ohio's Civil War history. The Blue Jackets play their home games at Nationwide Arena in downtown Columbus, which opened in 2000. They are affiliated with the Cleveland Monsters of the AHL.[

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