{"id":180212,"date":"2026-02-16T15:27:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180212\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T15:27:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:27:35","slug":"san-jose-barracuda-halttunens-hat-trick-leads-barracuda-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180212\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Barracuda | HALTTUNEN\u2019S HAT TRICK LEADS BARRACUDA PAST\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Jose, CA \u2014 The San Jose Barracuda<\/a> (27-15-1-2) notched a season-high eight goals on Sunday afternoon, defeating the Henderson Silver Knights<\/a> (19-18-6-2), 8-4, at Tech CU Arena<\/a> to split the two-game weekend set.<\/p>\n

In the win, rookie winger Kasper Halttunen<\/a> recorded his first career hat trick, and Oliver Wahlstrom<\/a> posted his first three-point (2+1=3) game of the season.<\/p>\n

San Jose opened the scoring just 2:07 into the first period when Lucas Carlsson<\/a> (9) went upstairs for his first goal in 14 games. Henderson answered on the power play at 9:29 as Matyas Sapovaliv<\/a> (8) buried a loose puck in front, sending the teams to the intermission tied 1\u20131.<\/p>\n

The Silver Knights grabbed a 2\u20131 lead 1:31 into the second when Lukas Cormier<\/a> (7) slipped one through the five-hole of Laurent Brossoit<\/a>. Wahlstrom (14) tied the game on the power play at 6:45, tipping in an Igor Chernyshov<\/a> shot. Ben Hemmerling<\/a> (12) responded less than a minute later to restore Henderson\u2019s advantage. The Barracuda then erupted. Halttunen (8, 9) scored twice in a span of 1:02 to put San Jose in front before Hemmerling (13) struck again to tie it at 4-4. Quentin Musty<\/a> (9) netted the eventual game-winner at 17:55, ripping in a one-timer. Wahlstrom (15) added another late in the period, beating Jesper Vikman<\/a> in the upper-right corner to give the Barracuda a 6\u20134 lead.<\/p>\n

San Jose pulled away in the third as Egor Afanasyev<\/a> (10) extended the lead at 6:23 on a breakaway. Halttunen (10) completed the hat trick on the power play at 14:45, blasting a one-timer past Vikman.<\/p>\n

Brossoit made 28 saves in the win, while Vikman stopped 31 shots for Henderson. San Jose finished 2-for-3 on the power play, and the Silver Knights went 1-for-3.<\/p>\n

The Barracuda are back in action on Wednesday in San Diego against the Gulls<\/a> before returning to Tech CU Arena on Sat., Feb. 21 for Cuda Country Night<\/a> presented by Bay Country<\/a>. The game will feature a Cow Bell giveaway to the first 3,000 and the postgame concert will feature Jackson Dean<\/a>. For more info, go to SJBarracuda.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose, CA \u2014 The San Jose Barracuda (27-15-1-2) notched a season-high eight goals on Sunday afternoon, defeating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[5108,85561,35782,85560,25751,88,90,89,31955],"class_list":{"0":"post-180212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-barracuda","9":"tag-halttunens","10":"tag-knights","11":"tag-leads","12":"tag-past","13":"tag-san-jose","14":"tag-san-jose-headlines","15":"tag-san-jose-news","16":"tag-trick"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}