San Jose, CA – The San Jose Barracuda (2-5-3-0) led twice on Friday at Tech CU Arena but couldn’t hold on to the lead and would eventually fall 5-3 to the Charlotte Checkers (7-3-0-0).
In the loss, Thomas Bordeleau and Jacob Peterson each collected their first goals of the year.
In the first, at 6:30, Bordeleau (1) carried the puck down the right wing and beat Spencer Knight on the short side to open the scoring. But at 18:31, Lucas Carlsson (5) leveled the score.
In the second, Peterson (1) received a pass from Bordeleau and ripped in a low shot through the five hole of Knight to make it 2-1 Barracuda seven minutes into the frame. One minute and 11 seconds later, Ryan McAllister (4) potted the tying goal and then former Shark’ Jonah Gadjovich (1) tipped in the go-ahead goal on the power play at 9:50. Carlsson would score again at the 12-minute mark before Ethan Cardwell (3) shoveled in a goal at 13:11.
In the third, Gadjovich (2) would score again, and the Checkers would roll to the 5-3 win.
Georgi Romanov would allow five goals on 40 shots, suffering his first regulation loss of the year.