PRESEASON GAME 1
San Jose Barracuda at Bakersfield Condors
Friday, Sept. 25 | 6:30 p.m. | Dignity Health Arena<\/p>\n
LISTEN<\/a> | WATCH<\/a><\/p>\n PRESEASON GAME 2 LISTEN<\/a> | WATCH<\/a><\/p>\n BARRACUDA OPEN PRESEASON FRIDAY IN BAKERSFIELD<\/p>\n The San Jose Barracuda begin their 2026 preseason on Friday night (Oct. 25), traveling to Dignity Health Arena to face the Bakersfield Condors (Edmonton Oilers) at 6:30 p.m. The two-game exhibition schedule wraps up at Tech CU Arena on Saturday (5 p.m.).\u00a0<\/p>\n Friday marks San Jose\u2019s first game action since last spring\u2019s Calder Cup Playoffs. With the San Jose Sharks still in training camp and continuing to to trim their roster, the Barracuda lineup is made up primarily of rookies, AHL-contracted players and tryout players, including several who spent last season with the ECHL\u2019s Wichita Thunder.\u00a0<\/p>\n A LOOK BACK AT 2025-26<\/p>\n The Barracuda are coming off their second 40-win season in franchise history, finishing 40-28-2-2 with 84 points and placing sixth in the Pacific Division, reaching the playoffs for the second consecutive season.\u00a0<\/p>\n Despite finishing with four more regulation wins than Bakersfield, San Jose ended two points behind the Condors in the standings because of Bakersfield\u2019s success beyond regulation. The Condors finished 37-23-11-1 with 86 points, good for fifth in the Pacific.<\/p>\n Both teams saw their seasons end in the opening round of the Calder Cup Playoffs. San Jose drew third-seeded Henderson (Vegas Golden Knights), while fifth-seeded Bakersfield faced fourth-seeded Coachella Valley (Seattle Kraken) in a pair of best-of-three Pacific Division First Round series.\u00a0<\/p>\n The two clubs were also remarkably even against one another during the regular season. San Jose went 4-3-0-1 in the eight-game season series, while Bakersfield finished 4-2-2-0. The Barracuda closed the regular season against the Condors on April 18 at Tech CU Arena, earning a 4-3 overtime victory on Jarod Crespo\u2019s first AHL goal.\u00a0<\/p>\n FAMILIAR FACES<\/p>\n The Barracuda\u2019s broader 2026-27 group is expected to eventually include several returning players and top Sharks prospects as NHL camp progresses and additional assignments are made. NHL opening night rosters must be set by\u00a0Monday, September 28 at 5:00 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n Bakersfield is in a similar situation. With a number of players remaining at Edmonton Oilers training camp, the Condors opened their AHL camp with only 16 players. Their initial group included returning forwards Daniel D\u2019Amato and Ethan Keppen, goaltenders Samuel Jonsson and Nathaniel Day, and several players attending on tryouts from ECHL clubs.<\/p>\n Friday’s projected Lineups:<\/p>\n BARRACUDA<\/p>\n FORWARDS DEFENSEMEN GOALTENDERS CONDORS<\/p>\n FORWARDS DEFENSEMEN GOALTENDERS THE MATCHUP<\/p>\n The organizations have been nearly dead even over the last five seasons. Entering Friday, San Jose and Bakersfield each own a 16-13-2-1 record against the other over that span.<\/p>\n Friday is one of the first five games on the AHL\u2019s 2026 preseason schedule. The league\u2019s 91st season officially begins Friday, Oct. 2, with the Barracuda opening their regular season at Tech CU Arena on Saturday, Oct. 3 at 3 p.m. against the San Diego Gulls.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PRESEASON GAME 1San Jose Barracuda at Bakersfield CondorsFriday, Sept. 25 | 6:30 p.m. | Dignity Health Arena LISTEN…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,3097],"class_list":["post-476039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-san-jose-sharks-ahl-hockey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476039","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=476039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Bakersfield Condors at San Jose Barracuda
Saturday, Sept. 26 | 5 p.m. | Tech CU Arena<\/p>\n
93 St\u00ednil \u2013 88 Lockhart \u2013 89 Murphy
83 Houle \u2013 59 Huo \u2013 62 Wetsch
90 Best \u2013 76 Vincent \u2013 91 Mitchell
64 Appelt \u2013 87 Scardina \u2013 82 Bax<\/p>\n
53 Sinn \u2013 79 Messineo
94 Proctor \u2013 85 Boltmann
96 Bodnarchuk \u2013 61 Sarsland<\/p>\n
34 Davis
29 Hasley<\/p>\n
50 Kopacka \u2013 83 Hults \u2013 51 Robertson
19 D\u2019Amato \u2013 28 Johannes \u2013 86 Tassy
68 Pitlick \u2013 65 Guzzo \u2013 63 Keppen
41 Stonehouse \u2013 77 Morgan \u2013 84 Wallack
45 Suede \u2013 87 Davies<\/p>\n
79 Sj\u00f6lund \u2013 62 Bookman
89 Tychonick \u2013 88 Matier
66 Gormley \u2013 47 Prokop<\/p>\n
34 Jonsson
40 Day<\/p>\n