Photo courtesy of San Jose Barracuda.

By Titus Wilkinson (@TitusWisme)

San Jose took on Colorado in the second of back-to-backs in their final road game of a five game trip.

For Colorado Justus Annunen got the start while in between the pipes for San Jose was Eetu Makiniemi.

Annunen’s night did not get off to a good start as just 1:06 into the game he went behind the net to play the puck. While trying to play it he fumbled the puck away and gave it to Ethan Cardwell who scored giving San Jose an early lead.

Similar to last game Colorado they responded quickly as Jason Polin scored less than 60 seconds later making it a tie game.

Ben Myers quickly followed that up with a goal of his own then on an Ethan Firsch holding penalty Colorado scored again this time Ivan Ivan found the back of the net.

Looking to pick things up in the second San Jose got a much needed goal this time from Tanner Kaspick making it a one goal game.

Then later in the period things were tied right back up as Kyle Rau got his second goal of the season making it 3-3.

Before the Barracuda could close out the period Oskar Olausson got their lead back scoring his eighth of the season.

The third period would see a sudden spike in physicality and penalties kicked off by a fight between Artem Guryev and Keaton Middleton. In total there was 50 penalty minutes between the two teams.

Colorado extended and secured their lead in the third period as both Riley Tufte and Spencer Wallman scored making it 6-3.

For stats sake Bradley Marek scored a late one but it made little difference as San Jose lost all the same 6-4.

This loss now extends their losing streak to nine and makes San Jose’s record 11-20-7 while Colorado sits at 18-14-4.

The Barracuda will look to snap their losing streak at home on Wednesday against the Condors at 7 p.m.