Oct 03, 2026<\/p>\n
Written By: Nick Nollenberger<\/p>\n
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Oct. 3, 2026) \u2013 Playing in front of a sellout crowd of 4,329 at Tech CU Arena<\/a>, the San Jose Barracuda<\/a> (0-1-0-0) opened the 2026-27 season with a 5-1 loss to the San Diego Gulls<\/a> (1-0-0-0) on Saturday afternoon. Ethan Cardwell<\/a> scored San Jose\u2019s lone goal, while Eric Comrie<\/a> turned aside 28 shots in his Barracuda debut.<\/p>\n After a scoreless opening period, San Diego broke through at 15:39 of the second when James Hamblin<\/a> finished a two-on-one setup from Stian Solberg<\/a> moments after Solberg exited the penalty box. Comrie was sharp through the first 40 minutes, stopping 24 of 25 shots as the Gulls carried a 1-0 lead into the third.<\/p>\n San Diego broke the game open early in the third, scoring three times in a span of 3:57. Matthew Phillips<\/a> doubled the lead with a power-play goal at 3:15 before Roger McQueen<\/a> added another power-play tally at 5:53. Nico Myatovic<\/a> made it 4-0 at 7:12, finishing a feed from Phillips and Hamblin.<\/p>\n The Barracuda continued to push and finally solved Gulls goaltender Laurent Brossoit<\/a> at 15:18. Cardwell buried his first goal of the season on a breakaway after Andre Gasseau<\/a> sprung him with a headman pass, earning his first career AHL point. San Jose pulled Comrie shortly after, but Solberg found the empty net at 16:07 to seal the 5-1 final.<\/p>\n Brossoit finished with 29 saves on 30 shots to earn the win, while Comrie stopped 28 of 32. San Diego went 2-for-4 on the power play, while San Jose finished 0-for-1. The Barracuda outshot the Gulls 16-8 in the third period but were outshot 33-30 for the game.<\/p>\n The two teams will meet again on Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. at Tech CU Arena. Broadcast coverage begins at 2:30 p.m. on the Sharks Audio Network<\/a>, SJBarracuda.com\/listen<\/a> and AHLTV on FloHockey<\/a>. For tickets, visit SJBarracuda.com<\/a> or call 408-999-5757.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 03, 2026 Written By: Nick Nollenberger SAN JOSE, Calif. (Oct. 3, 2026) \u2013 Playing in front of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89,3097],"class_list":["post-485184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks-ahl-hockey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485184","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=485184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}