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San Jose, CA \u2013 Jimmy Huntington<\/a> recorded a Gordie Howe hat trick in the first period and finished the night with two goals, an assist, and a fight \u2014 all within the opening 21:33 \u2014 but the San Jose Barracuda<\/a> (31-16-2-2) saw their three-game winning streak and six-game point streak come to an end Sunday night, falling 6-4 to the Tucson Roadrunners<\/a> (24-20-8-0) at Tech CU Arena.<\/p>\n The Barracuda\u2019s regulation loss was their first this season when leading after 40 minutes (18-1-0-2) and their first defeat when scoring four or more goals (25-1).<\/p>\n Tucson opened the scoring at 5:34 of the first period when Michal Kunc<\/a> (5) beat Matt Davis<\/a> on a tic-tac-toe play, but quickly whe Huntington (11) tied the game at 8:53, snapping in a shot from the top of the right circle. Lucas Carlsson<\/a> (12) then gave the Barracuda a 2-1 lead on the power play at 13:32, finishing a pass from Huntington in the high slot just nine seconds into the advantage. The period also featured a pair of fights, as Huntington and Kevin Connauton<\/a> squared off at center ice, and later Anthony Vincent<\/a> dropped the gloves with Sam Lipkin<\/a>.<\/p>\n San Jose extended its lead early in the second when Huntington (12) tipped in a Luca Cagnoni<\/a> point shot on the power play to make it 3-1 at 1:33. Tucson answered with a power-play goal from Daniil But<\/a> (11) at 8:23 and pulled even at 12:47 on Cameron Hebig\u2019s<\/a> (17) tally. Vincent (7) restored the Barracuda lead at 14:26, jamming in a feed from Kyle Crnkovic<\/a> to send San Jose into the third period ahead, 4-3.<\/p>\n At 7:07 of the third, But (11) lifted a puck toward the net from the right point that deflected off a Barracuda defender and in, leveling the score at 4-4. With the game still tied and under three minutes remaining, Scott Perunovich<\/a> (6) gave Tucson the lead for good, beating Davis on a breakaway for what proved to be the game-winner. Kevin Rooney<\/a> (12) added an empty-net goal at 18:35 to seal the 6-4 final.<\/p>\n The Barracuda close out their three-game homestand on Wednesday (7 p.m.) as they host the San Diego Gulls<\/a> at Tech CU Arena<\/a>. Can\u2019t make the game? Join Nick Nollenberger and analyst Drew Remenda on NBC Sports California<\/a> and listen on the Sharks Audio Network. For tickets, visit SJBarracuda.com.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 San Jose, CA \u2013 Jimmy Huntington recorded a Gordie Howe hat trick in the first period and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[14474,93023,1869,23330,88,90,89,93024],"class_list":{"0":"post-200099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-comeback","9":"tag-huntingtons","10":"tag-night","11":"tag-roadrunners","12":"tag-san-jose","13":"tag-san-jose-headlines","14":"tag-san-jose-news","15":"tag-spoil"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200099","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=200099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}