{"id":252822,"date":"2026-04-05T11:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/252822\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T11:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:24:08","slug":"san-jose-barracuda-barracuda-clinch-2026-calder-cup-playoff-berth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/252822\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Barracuda | BARRACUDA CLINCH 2026 CALDER CUP PLAYOFF BERTH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 04, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Written By: Nick Nollenberger<\/p>\n<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> (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sjbarracuda\">@SJBarracuda<\/a>), <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/theahl.com\/\">American Hockey League<\/a> (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/theahl.com\/\">@TheAHL<\/a>) affiliate of the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/sjsharks.com\/\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sanjosesharks\">@SanJoseSharks<\/a>), officially clinched a 2026 Calder Cup Playoff berth following the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/tucsonroadrunners.com\/\">Tucson Roadrunners<\/a>\u2019 5-4 loss to the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/hendersonsilverknights.com\/\">Henderson Silver Knights<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;\">It marks the second consecutive year the Barracuda have reached the Calder Cup Playoffs and the first time they\u2019ve qualified in back-to-back seasons since making the playoffs in each of their first four years of existence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;\">The top seed in the Pacific Division receives a first-round bye, while teams seeded two through four will host a best-of-three opening-round series. The Barracuda currently sit in third place in the Pacific Division with six games remaining in the 72-game regular season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;\">Playoff dates, opponents, and venues are yet to be determined and will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;\">#SJBarracuda<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 04, 2026 Written By: Nick Nollenberger San Jose, CA \u2013 The San Jose Barracuda (@SJBarracuda), American Hockey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89,3097],"class_list":["post-252822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks-ahl-hockey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252822","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=252822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252822\/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=252822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}