Barracuda News & Discussion VII

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Regenda, PPG, 2-0

Barracuda are doing pretty well, only 3 SOG for Abbotsford thus far. Game's getting a little hostile. Jett Woo continues to take some bad penalties.

 

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Referees had to huddle up for a while to figure this one out: Tristen Nielsen of the Canucks takes a two-minute minor for high sticking, and then four minutes for headbutting Vanroboys. Vanroboys also gets a roughing penalty. Result: four minute power play for the Cuda, who have the top PP unit in the league right now.

Sloppy play for the first half of it, though. Period ends, Cuda have 1:20 of PP time left when we come back.

 

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Really terrible power play, and it ends with an SHG for Abbotsford. 2-1 SJ.

 

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Colin White, 3-1 Barracuda. Walker Duehr with the primary assist, he continues to rack up the points for us.

 

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Klimovich with a PPG to bring the Canucks back within 1. Really good shot.

 

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End of two, still 3-2. We've had some success this season on the power play against these Canucks, but they've figured something out against us, our man advantage has not really been an advantage most of the time in this one.

Abbotsford only has 13 SOG, but both their goals were good ones. Period ended at a good time, Abbotsford was starting to get some momentum going.

Elsewhere in the league, Ontario, Colorado and Calgary all lose, Tucson currently down 3-1 at Bakersfield. All good news for us.

 

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Ugh. Bad change. Tie game.

All Canucks right now.

 

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Silovs puts it over the glass for a delay of game penalty, Colin White with the PPG to put us back in the lead.

 

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And Linus Karlsson ties it with 2:38 to go. That's a good old fashioned deflating goal.

We're headed to OT.

 

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And we lose in OT to Linus Karlsson after White/Duehr/Schuldt got hemmed in for a ridiculous amount of time. What happened in the second half of that game, that was awful.

 

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Once again, Barracuda can't finish off a game. Momentum starting swinging hard towards Abbotsford around the end of the second, shots in the third period were 15-4 Abbotsford. Third period our execution was just not there. I was a little surprised we took the lead again during that stretch.

Lots of two-point games. Colin White obviously (2G), Regenda (1G 1A), and Bordeleau/Duehr (2A each)

Was hoping we pulled this out, as it would tie us on points with third-place Calgary and Ontario, instead we're one point behind them. Well, three points out of four on the trip isn't terrible. Now we've got a week off and then we head to Tucson to face our friends the Roadrunners on 3/15.

 

[Juxtaposer]

I think Linus Karlsson's personal mission is to f*** San Jose every time he plays us.

 

[LadyStanley]

https://www.sjbarracuda.com/news/detail/after-long-road-cuda-captain-returns-to-nhl

From Friday.

 

[De Montreal]

So after all the players traded by Mike Grier at the deadline, does it open up a few spots on the lineup with the Sharks?

Could some guys get a call up as a ''last chance'' kind of scenario? Maybe giving a look at Gushchin or Bordeleau before they give up for good on them?

 

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Was looking at the transaction ticker today and there's a move on there from last week (3/5) that I do not remember being there before. Wondering if they added it well after the fact.

The Barracuda have signed John Gormley to a contract, it says. Gormley is a 24 year old 6'4" RHD out of Long Island University. His offensive numbers are... well, not amazing.

https://theahl.com/stats/player/10501/86/john-gormley

https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/519987/john-gormley

This has become one of my favorite times of the year, as the Barracuda have made it a thing to sign about a half dozen NCAA players at the end of their season to amateur tryouts, so we get to see some new faces. This is how we got Carriere, Vincent, Vanroboys, Houle, Frisch, etc. I wasn't sure if we were still going to do this for this season, since we should have some actual prospects coming in eventually.

But the transaction says we signed him to an SPC and not an ATO, which would mean he's signed to a full contract. That's a little bit surprising.

 

[LadyStanley]

 

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No Bordeleau. Still no Bystedt.

Walker Duehr out, wife is expecting.

Edit: Bordeleau was in warmup but was a late scratch, something nagging him.

 

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Curtis Douglas makes it 1-0 Tucson.

Really poor start from us, we cannot get it out of our own zone.



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And now 2-0, Agozzino scores.

I kinda want McCarthy to call timeout here, we do not look ready to play.

 

[Lebanezer]

Cuda playing like the Sharks today.

 

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Agozzino with a PPG, 3-0 Tucson

There is nothing good to say about this period for us.

 

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3-0 Tucson after the first period, shots are 17-6 Roadrunners. Looks like we might've changed the defensive pairings up again, Cagnoni is now with Frisch and Thompson with Hache. Second straight game we've done that in the first period if that's what we're sticking with.

I'm looking on the bright side, we can only get better from here.

It's first responders night, so for intermission they've got a police car, ambulance, etc driving around the ice with their lights going. Can't say I've seen that before.

 

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Hey, Colin White with an early second period goal. 3-1.

 

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Hat trick for Agozzino after the Cuda go down 5 on 3 (Regenda took a puck over glass penalty early on a PK).

 

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So now we're not playing that poorly, but just keep taking penalties to break up any momentum we get going. Only good news is Tucson keeps taking penalties that cancel out their own power plays.

We go onto the power play after our penalty expires, Poturalski scores to make it 4-2. Poturalski now holds the franchise record for points in a season, beating out the guy destroying us tonight, Andrew Agozzino.

That's also two primary assists for Gushchin tonight.

 

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They've jumbled the lines up and are sending out some really strange combos. Like, Coe is now on the top line with Poturalski. I don't think I've seen Rem Pitlick 5 on 5 in a while.

There's been a lot of penalties but I'm also feeling like these referees are just whistle-happy.