{"id":265192,"date":"2026-04-13T06:48:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/265192\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T06:48:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:48:26","slug":"blazers-forward-lafreniere-scores-first-professional-goal-for-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/265192\/","title":{"rendered":"Blazers\u2019 forward Lafreniere scores first professional goal for Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/45e31cc8-dfd2-411b-a906-6cec716cd7f2-3.png\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tommy Lafreniere playing for the Bakersfield Condors in the American Hockey League. (Image Credit: Bakersfield Condors)<\/p>\n<p>By Victor Kaisar<\/p>\n<p>First Goal<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tApr 12, 2026 | 1:41 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>BAKERSFIELD, CAL. \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/theahl.com\/stats\/player\/11065\/90\/tommy-lafreniere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Tommy Lafreniere<\/a> scored his first professional hockey goal for the American Hockey League\u2019s Bakersfield Condors, in an all-California showdown against the San Diego Gulls Saturday (April 11) night.<\/p>\n<p>In just his second AHL game, the 19-year-old Kamloops Blazers forward made it 5-3 Condors at 8:13 of the third period, but Bakersfield ended up losing <a href=\"https:\/\/theahl.com\/stats\/game-center\/1028862\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">7-3<\/a>. Lafreniere collected a pass from Roby J\u00e4rventie and beat Damian Clara with a shot from the faceoff circle to the right of the net.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WvyqgXxOVE\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/WvyqgXxOVE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uxa44dAGvB\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/uxa44dAGvB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bakersfield Condors (@Condors) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Condors\/status\/2043183992317612175?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A third-round draft pick of the Edmonton Oilers, Lafreniere <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bakersfieldcondors.com\/news\/condors-sign-nicholl-and-lafreniere-to-ato-deals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">signed an Amateur Try-Out Agreement (ATO)<\/a> as he mulls his future. He\u2019s eligible to return to the Blazers for his 19-year-old WHL season, though he has committed to playing NCAA hockey for the Western Michigan Broncos.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tommy Lafreniere playing for the Bakersfield Condors in the American Hockey League. (Image Credit: Bakersfield Condors) By Victor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-265192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265192","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=265192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}