{"id":275205,"date":"2026-04-19T05:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/275205\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T05:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:56:08","slug":"san-jose-barracuda-barracuda-close-out-regular-season-with-ot-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/275205\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Barracuda | BARRACUDA CLOSE OUT REGULAR SEASON WITH OT WIN"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Jose, CA \u2013 The San Jose Barracuda<\/a> (40-28-2-2) defeated the Bakersfield Condors<\/a> (37-23-10-1) 4\u20133 in overtime at Tech CU Arena on Saturday night. With the win, the Barracuda snapped a six-game losing streak to close out the regular season.<\/p>\n

San Jose controlled much of the opening period, outshooting Bakersfield 17\u20138 and breaking through on the power play. Kasper Halttunen<\/a> (16) opened the scoring at 11:20, finishing a setup from Filip Bystedt<\/a> to give the Barracuda a 1\u20130 lead after one.<\/p>\n

The second period featured a flurry of offense, with four combined goals. Isaac Howard<\/a> (24) evened the game at 8:48, but Quentin Musty<\/a> (21) restored San Jose\u2019s lead at 14:51. Bakersfield answered again late in the frame as Viljami Marjala<\/a> (17) tied the game at 18:00, but the Barracuda responded just 30 seconds later when Kyle Crnkovic<\/a> (1) buried his first AHL goal to send San Jose into the third period ahead 3\u20132.<\/p>\n

After a tightly played third, the Condors forced overtime on a late power-play goal from Atro Leppanen<\/a> (11) at 17:30. In the extra frame, the Barracuda sealed the win when Jarod Crespo<\/a> (1) scored at 4:24, scooping up a rebound and finishing a forehand-to-backhand move in tight.<\/p>\n

San Jose and Bakersfield each recorded 35 shots on goal. Gabe Carriere<\/a> made 32 saves in the victory, while Connor Ungar<\/a> stopped 31 shots in the loss. Both teams finished 1-for-4 on the power play.<\/p>\n

BOX SCORE<\/a><\/p>\n

The Barracuda begin Calder Cup Playoff action on Wednesday in Henderson against the Silver Knights<\/a> at 7 p.m. All playoff games will be broadcast live on the Sharks Audio Network<\/a> and AHLTV on FloHockey<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose, CA \u2013 The San Jose Barracuda (40-28-2-2) defeated the Bakersfield Condors (37-23-10-1) 4\u20133 in overtime at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[5108,817,28709,88,90,89,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-275205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-barracuda","9":"tag-close","10":"tag-regular","11":"tag-san-jose","12":"tag-san-jose-headlines","13":"tag-san-jose-news","14":"tag-season"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275205","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=275205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275205\/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=275205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}