Barracuda vs. Texas Stars Preview

Nov 28, 2015

Today:
The San Jose Barracuda and the Texas Stars (AHL affiliate of the Dallas Stars) meet for the 1st of six meetings this season, the 1st of three meetings at the SAP Center. The Barracuda are 0-0-0-0 vs. the Stars this season and are 0-0-0-0 in zero career matchups. The Barracuda return home to the SAP Center after ending a season long seven game road trip with a 3-2-0-2 record. San Jose begins a five home stand this afternoon at the SAP Center in the 2nd of 13 Barracuda/Sharks doubleheaders this season. The Stars are 2-0-0-0 on their current four game road trip which will end with a pair of games vs. the Barracuda this weekend at the SAP Center. The Barracuda and the Stars meet again at the SAP Center tomorrow at 3pm.

Gameday Center | Game Notes

In case you missed it…
The San Jose Barracuda (6-7-0-3, 15pts) presented by Barracuda Networks played an excellent road game with a 3-1 win over the host Charlotte Checkers (9-9-0-0, 18pts) in front 5,116 fans at the Bojangles’ Coliseum on Wednesday evening. Greger Hanson, Trevor Parkes and Nikolay Goldobin scored for San Jose while goaltender Troy Grosenick made 19 saves in net as the Barracuda finished up their season long seven game road trip with a 3-2-0-2 record.

The Texas Stars offense continued to roll in a 5-3 road win in San Diego on Wednesday night. Brendan Ranford tallied a three point night (1-2-3) and Esa Lindell scored twice for the Stars. Jack Campbell made 17 saves in net for the win.

Barracuda Bites…
*Recent transactions…defenseman Dylan DeMelo was recalled by the SJ Sharks on Friday afternoon and now joins Micheal Haley, Melker Karlsson, and Mirco Mueller with the SJ Sharks in the NHL. Forward Chris Crane was reassigned by the SJ Sharks from the Barracuda to the Allen Americans (ECHL) on Friday morning.

AHL COACHING WINS – ALL-TIME

1. Fred “Bun” Cook	1937-56	19seasons	1,171GP	636 WINS
2. Roy Sommer	1998-current	18seasons	1,360GP	623WINS
3. Frank Mathers	1956-85	18seasons	1,256GP	610 WINS
4. John Paddock	1981-2010	16seasons	1,125GP	589 WINS

*Breaking down November…The Barracuda have a 4-4-0-2 (10pts in 10gp) record in November with 25 GF and 29 GA. PP is 5-42 (11.9%); opponents PP is 7-36 (19.4%); and the Barracuda have 4 fighting majors in November.

*Bryan Lerg, Mirco Mueller, Dylan DeMelo, Nikolay Goldobin, Micheal Haley, John McCarthy, Barclay Goodrow, and Melker Karlsson have all played for the Barracuda (AHL) and the Sharks (NHL) this season.

*The San Jose Sharks currently have 13 players on their roster that have spent time with the Sharks AHL affiliate (Couture, Pavelski, Wingels, Braun, Stalock, Tennyson, Vlasic, Nieto, Hertl, Tierney, Mueller, Haley, Karlsson, and DeMelo).

*The San Jose Sharks are in 2nd place in the Pacific Division and 5th place in the Western Conference with 26 points and a 13-9-0 record. The Sharks host the Calgary Flames tonight at 7pm.

*Streakers….for the Barracuda: Nikolay Goldobin (1-1-2) has a two game point streak while Troy Grosenick is 3-0-1 in his last four starts… for Texas: Devin Shore (5-4-9) has a five game goal scoring streak, Esa Lindell (4-3-7) has a four game point streak, while Brendan Ranford (1-3-4) and Travis Morin (1-1-2) each have a two game streak.

*Lots of saves… goaltender Troy Grosenick made 49 saves in the 4-3SOL at Stockton on Nov 21. The 49 saves was a career high for Troy and the most saves by a goaltender this season in the AHL.

*Five for fighting… The Barracuda have 7 fighting majors through 16 games this season…. (McLaren 2, Young 2, Arseneau 1, Carpenter 1, and Cundari 1)

Important #’s:

	San Jose	Texas
Goals For	2.31 – 27th	4.05 – 3rd
Goals Agst	2.88 – 16th	3.11 – 23rd
Shots For	28.50 – 21st	34.63 – 2nd
Shots Agst	31.06 – 20th	30.32 – 17th
PIMS	12.69 – 24th	10.89 – 29th
Fighting Majors	7 – 27th	1 – 30th

Broadcast:
Today’s San Jose Barracuda game can be heard live online at www.kdow.biz, and a video stream (for a fee) through AHL Live.