The San Jose Sharks’ AHL affiliate will start its postseason in Los Angeles on Thursday.
The San Jose Barracuda misplaced 4-0 to the Calgary Wranglers on the Scotiabank Saddledome on Sunday to complete the common season in sixth place within the AHL’s Pacific Division with 81 factors. San Jose (36-27-5-4) entered the sport in fifth place however fell behind Calgary with the regulation time loss.
The Barracuda start the Calder Cup playoffs with a best-of-three sequence towards the Ontario Reign, with all video games in Southern California. Video games 1 and a couple of can be at Crypto.com Area, dwelling of the Los Angeles Kings, on Thursday and Saturday, respectively, and Sport 3, if obligatory, can be at Toyota Area in Ontario on Monday. The Reign is the Kings’ AHL affiliate.
To host a playoff recreation at Tech CU Area in San Jose, the Barracuda would want to advance to the second spherical.
San Jose gained simply 4 of its final 10 video games however nonetheless completed with 19 factors greater than final season’s staff, which was final within the 10-team Pacific Division.
Middle Andrew Poturalski led the Barracuda and captured the AHL’s scoring title with 73 factors, however is coping with a lower-body harm, and his availability for the primary spherical is in query. Poturalski’s final recreation was on March 28, and he was thought of week to week as of the beginning of this month.
Because the AHL’s main point-getter, Poturalski gained the John B. Sollenberger Trophy. Poturalski turns into simply the third participant in AHL historical past to steer the league in scoring thrice.
Different main scorers for the Barracuda embody defenseman Luca Cagnoni (52 factors), winger Danil Gushchin (51 factors), and ahead Ethan Cardwell (48 factors).
Goalie Yaroslav Askarov, who will possible be on the Sharks’ roster subsequent season, has performed three video games this month since he returned from a lower-body harm that value him six weeks. In these three video games, Askarov was 1-2-0 with a .930 save proportion.
The Barracuda went 3-4-0-1 towards the Reign this season. The 2 groups break up their two most up-to-date conferences on April 11 and 12 in San Jose, with the Barracuda successful the primary recreation 4-1 and dropping the second recreation 4-0.
The complete AHL playoff brackets may be discovered right here.
Calder Cup playoffs, first-round schedule
Ontario Reign vs. San Jose Barracuda (all video games streaming on flohockey.television and the Sharks Audio Community).
Sport 1: Thursday, San Jose vs. Ontario, 7 p.m, in Los Angeles
^Sport 2: Saturday, San Jose vs. Ontario, 6 p.m., in Los Angeles
*Sport 3: April 28, San Jose at Ontario, 7 p.m.
*if obligatory
^San Jose designated as “home” staff for final change
Initially Revealed: April 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM PDT
