{"id":232048,"date":"2026-03-23T04:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T04:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/232048\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T04:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T04:02:10","slug":"san-jose-barracuda-barracuda-stay-hot-down-canucks-4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/232048\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Barracuda | BARRACUDA STAY HOT, DOWN CANUCKS 4-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-left:0px;\">San Jose, Ca. \u2013 The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/sjbarracuda.com\/\">San Jose Barracuda<\/a> (38-18-2-2) jumped out early and never looked back on Sunday afternoon, defeating the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/abbotsford.canucks.com\/\">Abbotsford Canucks<\/a> (22-35-3-3), 4\u20132, at Tech CU Arena to complete a weekend sweep. With the win, San Jose has now reached 80 points for the second year in a row and the fourth time in team history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;\">With the win, the Barracuda have now won five in a row at home, finishing the season-series with Abbotsford by going 6-1-0-1 and 4-0 at home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;\">San Jose opened the scoring late in the first period, as <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/theahl.com\/stats\/player\/7597\/90\/jett-woo\">Jett Woo<\/a> (2), against his former team, buried a point shot off the post and in at 11:36. Despite being outshot 11\u20137 in the frame, the Barracuda carried a 1\u20130 lead into the intermission.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;\">Abbotsford responded in the second period, with <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/theahl.com\/stats\/player\/10452\/90\/kirill-kudryavtsev\">Kirill Kudryavtsev<\/a> (2) tying the game at 6:21\u2014his first goal since scoring against the Barracuda 23 games ago on Nov. 22. However, the Barracuda answered back on the power play when <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/theahl.com\/stats\/player\/7575\/90\/oliver-wahlstrom\">Oliver Wahlstrom<\/a> (23) ripped home the go-ahead goal at 13:19 from the right flank.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;\">The Barracuda added to their lead early in the final frame, as <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/theahl.com\/stats\/player\/10234\/90\/quentin-musty\">Quentin Musty<\/a> (16) netted the eventual game-winner at 7:21, beating <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/theahl.com\/stats\/player\/10454\/90\/ty-young\">Ty Young<\/a> through the five-hole after receiving a pass up the left wing. Abbotsford cut the deficit to one just over two minutes later on a goal from former Cuda defender <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/theahl.com\/stats\/player\/8709\/90\/jack-thompson\">Jack Thompson<\/a> (6), but San Jose held strong before <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/theahl.com\/stats\/player\/10100\/90\/lucas-vanroboys\">Lucas Vanroboys<\/a> (3) iced the game with an empty-net goal at the 18:00 mark.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/theahl.com\/stats\/player\/7824\/90\/jakub-skarek\">Jakub Skarek<\/a> made 27 saves to earn the win\u2014his first since Jan. 7\u2014while the Barracuda outshot the Canucks 37\u201329. San Jose went 1-for-3 on the power play and held Abbotsford to 0-for-1 with the man advantage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;\">The Barracuda close out their homestand on Wednesday (7 p.m.) as they host the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texasstars.com\/\">Texas Stars<\/a> for the first time this season. For tickets, go to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/sjbarracuda.com\/tickets\">sjbarracuda.com\/tickets<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose, Ca. \u2013 The San Jose Barracuda (38-18-2-2) jumped out early and never looked back on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[5108,31694,88,90,89,38964],"class_list":["post-232048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-barracuda","tag-canucks","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-stay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232048","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=232048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232048\/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=232048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}