{"id":274987,"date":"2026-04-19T02:07:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T02:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/274987\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T02:07:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T02:07:43","slug":"san-jose-barracuda-comeback-falls-short-in-5-2-loss-to-condors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/274987\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Barracuda | COMEBACK FALLS SHORT IN 5-2 LOSS TO CONDORS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bakersfield, CA \u2013 The San Jose Barracuda<\/a> (39-28-2-2) fell 5\u20132 to the Bakersfield Condors<\/a> (37-23-10-1) at Dignity Health Arena on Friday night. With the loss, the Barracuda have now dropped six straight games and 10 of their last 11.<\/p>\n

Bakersfield jumped out to an early lead in the opening period, as Sam Poulin<\/a> (20) scored just 1:46 into the game. The Condors doubled their advantage late in the frame when Isaac Howard<\/a> (23) converted on the power play at 15:48 to make it 2\u20130 heading into the intermission.<\/p>\n

The Condors extended their lead in the second period with Poulin (21) striking again at 9:29. San Jose responded midway through the frame when Brendan Hoffmann<\/a> (5) finished off a loose puck at 11:35 to cut the deficit to 3\u20131.<\/p>\n

In the third, the Barracuda pulled within one as Filip Bystedt<\/a> (22) as he went upstairs at 9:30. However, Bakersfield answered just over two minutes later with a power-play goal from Roby J\u00e4rventie<\/a> (22) to restore a two-goal cushion. J\u00e4rventie (23) added an empty-net goal at 19:15 to seal the win.<\/p>\n

San Jose was outshot 31\u201330 in the contest. Laurent Brossoit<\/a> made 26 saves on 30 shots in the loss, while Matt Tomkins<\/a> turned aside 28 of 30 shots for Bakersfield. The Barracuda went 0-for-5 on the power play, while the Condors converted twice on four opportunities.<\/p>\n

The Barracuda wrap up the regular season on Saturday when they host the Condors at 7 p.m. for Fan Appreciation Night at Tech CU Arena<\/a>. The night will feature a team photo giveaway (first 1,000 fans) and a Barracuda sock giveaway (first 1,500 fans). For tickets, visit sjbarracuda.com\/tickets<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bakersfield, CA \u2013 The San Jose Barracuda (39-28-2-2) fell 5\u20132 to the Bakersfield Condors (37-23-10-1) at Dignity Health…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,14474,1998,16680,3289,13036],"class_list":["post-274987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-comeback","tag-condors","tag-falls","tag-loss","tag-short"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274987","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=274987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274987\/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=274987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}