Attendance: 7,443
The Checkers would strike first 1:17 into the second period. Connor Brickley received a bad Monsters pass square on his stick. Brickley took off down the ice and fired the puck into the back of the net before Dean Kukan could catch him.
Six minutes later Andrew Miller worked through being double teamed to extend the Checkers lead to two. Miller worked hard to get that goal. After muscling through the double team, he avoided Sifers sliding across the ice and had to skate to the other side of the crease before getting the shot off.