Photo courtesy of San Jose Barracuda. Thomas Bordeleau warms up before a game.

By Titus Wilkinson (@TitusWisme)

After beating the Condors at home San Jose looked to continue their winning ways against the San Diego Gulls.

In net for the Barracuda was Georgi Romanov while for the Gulls Calle Clang was in between the pipes.

Good starts are always important and for the Barracuda they did not do that. Instead just 1:46 into the game on the power play Olen Zellweger scored his 10th goal of the season giving them the early lead.

While the start may have been rough later in the period San Jose would tie the game as Ethan Cardwell scored his 14th of the campaign.

Then in the dying moments Nathan Todd snuck one home to give San Jose a late period lead.

The second ended up starting out the opposite of the first as Shakir Mukhamadullin scored his sixth to extend their lead to 3-1.

Later in the period Kyle Rau tacked on with his fourth to make it a commanding three goal lead.

The dominance continued in the final frame as Jacob Peterson made it 5-1 though the Gulls would cut into the lead at 10:55 as Ben King scored.

San Diego pulled their goalie but it did not end up mattering as Peterson got his second of the night putting the game away at 6-2.

While the Gulls are one of the bottom feeders in the league seeing San Jose’s offense explode for six goals was great to see. This is also the second game in a row were the offense has showed up as they scored four goals against the Condors last game. What is more impressive is that they have given up only four goals in their past two games.

If there was any negative San Jose took a lot of penalties though they weren’t punished for it as the Gulls only went 1/6 on the man advantage.

As far as stats Thomas Bordeleau had a great night with three assists and two shots on goal. The shots also favored San Jose in this one at 26-21.

The three stars of the game were: 1st: Kyle Rau 2nd: Thomas Bordeleau 3rd: Shakir Mukhamadullin

After this victory San Jose improves to 16-22-8 while the Gulls fall to 18-19-7.

The Barracuda will continue their road trip against one of the best in the league Coachella Valley tomorrow at 7 p.m.