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San Jose, CA \u2014 The San Jose Barracuda<\/a> (31-15-2-2) erupted for four goals in the second period and never looked back, defeating the Tucson Roadrunners<\/a> (23-19-8-0), 5\u20133, on Saturday night at Tech CU Arena. With the win, the Barracuda have now won three in a row, have points in their last six (5-0-1-0), and finished the month at 7-2-1.<\/p>\n The two-goal comeback marked the team\u2019s third two-goal rally in the last five games and its 22nd comeback victory of the year.<\/p>\n Tucson struck early when Jack Ricketts<\/a> (4) opened the scoring just 53 seconds into the game, slipping a shot through Laurent Brossoit\u2019s<\/a> five-hole. Dmitri Simashev<\/a> (8) then doubled the lead on the power play at 18:22 of the first to send the Roadrunners into the intermission ahead 2\u20130. Despite trailing, San Jose outshot Tucson 15\u20139 in the opening frame.<\/p>\n San Jose responded immediately in the second. Donavan Houle<\/a> (3) swung a shot into an open net just 15 seconds into the period after Roadrunners goaltender Matt Villalta<\/a> took a stick to the neck from a teammate, knocking him out of the play. Villalta left the game and did not return. After Andrew Agozzino<\/a> (9) restored Tucson\u2019s two-goal cushion at 6:14, the Barracuda took over. Filip Bystedt (14) ignited the comeback at 14:33, finishing a breakaway for his 14th of the season. Mattias Havelid<\/a> (5) tied the game on the power play at 17:14, his second in as many games, and Bystedt (15) struck again at 19:08 to give San Jose its first lead of the night and the eventual game-winner.<\/p>\n In the third, Brossoit made several key saves to preserve the lead, and Houle (4) sealed the win with an empty-netter at 19:29.<\/p>\n Bystedt (2G, 1A) earned first-star honors, while Houle added two goals and Egor Afanasyev<\/a> chipped in a pair of assists. San Jose outshot Tucson 41\u201334 and improved to 3-2 against Utah\u2019s<\/a> top affiliate this season.<\/p>\n The Barracuda continue their homestand on Sunday (5 p.m.) as they take on the Tucson Roadrunners for Pucks and Paws Night<\/a> which features a dog leash giveaway to the first 2,000 fans. For tickets, go to SJBarracuda.com\/tickets<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 San Jose, CA \u2014 The San Jose Barracuda (31-15-2-2) erupted for four goals in the second period…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[39480,85560,23330,88,90,89],"class_list":["post-198985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bystedt","tag-leads","tag-roadrunners","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198985","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=198985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198985\/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=198985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}