Photo courtesy of San Jose Barracuda.

By Titus Wilkinson (@TitusWisme)

The Barracuda returned home to take on the the Canucks in the first of back-to-backs.

In goal for San Jose was Georgi Romanov while between the pipes for Abbotsford it was Nikita Tolopilo.

It was a wild first period in this one with both teams combining to score five goals.

The scoring was kicked off by Cole McWard and they kept the lead until 10:14 when Thomas Bordeleau tied the game on the power play.

Tanner Kaspick then scored to give San Jose the lead which the Canucks quickly responded to as Vasily Podkolzin tied the game right back up.

In the dying moments of the period shorthanded Anthony Vincent got San Jose the lead back with his second of the season.

The middle frame saw the offense quiet down with only one goal being scored by Abbotsford as John Stevens got his 12th of the campaign.

Heading into the third with the score tied the Canucks struck first as Filip Johnason got his team out front early.

While it looked like San Jose may have to pull their goalie to get back even Jack Studnicka prevented that from happening as he scored tying things back up at 4-4.

The home crowd got some free hockey as the game went to overtime but despite the combined seven shots between the teams nobody scored.

In the shootout Ethan Cardwell, Bordeleau, and Studnicka all shot for the Barracuda but none of them scored.

For the Canucks they’d only need one and they got the goal from Linus Karlsson as he secured the victory for Abbotsford 5-4.

The three stars of the game were: 1st: Linus Karlsson 2nd: Anthony Vincent 3rd: John Stevens

San Jose will look to bounce back tomorrow against these same Canucks as they’ll do battle at 2 p.m.