In a show of outstanding two-way hockey, the Bakersfield Condors beat the Coachella Valley Firebirds 6-1 in Game One\u00a0of the First Round Series of the Pacific Division in the 2026 Calder Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n
The Condors poured two goals in each period despite the Firebirds outshooting Bakersfield 39-27 in the game. Two of the Condors’ goals were scored by captain Seth Griffith<\/a> including the opener on a power play. Season-leading rookie goal-scorer Quinn Hutson, alternate captain James Hamblin<\/a>, former Penguins’ 2019 21st-overall pick Sam Poulin<\/a> and former Panthers’ 2016 fourth-rounder Riley Stillman<\/a> pocketed one each.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n The only flaw with Bakersfield can be pointed towards their undisciplined style of hockey, which put them on the penalty-kill six times in the game. The Condors gave up 13 of the Firebirds’ 39 shots in those six PK situations.<\/p>\n And that’s where Bakersfield goalie Matt Tomkins produced a game-winning performance, making 38 saves off 39 shots and registering a save percentage of 0.974.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a show of outstanding two-way hockey, the Bakersfield Condors beat the Coachella Valley Firebirds 6-1 in Game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,3855,153,152,27929,41510,20862,21156,20863,1605,3868,109027,51497,3869],"class_list":{"0":"post-283385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-condors","10":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","11":"tag-bakersfield-news","12":"tag-calgary-flames","13":"tag-coachella-valley-firebirds","14":"tag-edmonton","15":"tag-james-hamblin","16":"tag-matt-tomkins","17":"tag-pacific-division","18":"tag-riley-stillman","19":"tag-rogers-place","20":"tag-sam-poulin","21":"tag-seth-griffith"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283385","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=283385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}