Since we last checked in on the Cleveland Monsters, it has all been bad news. All you have to do is check the standings to see they have fallen all the way to the bottom of the Eastern Conference. The “crucial stretch” of schedule I had warned about in the last two Monsters posts was not kind to the club. Just past the halfway mark this season, the Monsters have amassed a 14-20-5-3 record, including 3-11-1-0 since the January recap. All of a sudden, that expanded playoff format does not seem big enough.
Let’s take a look at what has gone wrong happened.