San Jose Barracuda vs Colorado Eagles on Friday April 4th at Blue FCU Arena (via sjbarracuda/Instagram)
By Madison Montez
After 17 games missed due to injury, San Jose Barracuda Filip Bystedt returned to the lineup in Friday night’s game against Colorado Eagles. Previous to his injury, Bystedt was riding a four-game point streak. In tonight’s game, Bystedt registered two points. Scoring one goal and recording one assist. The Barracuda picked up the 6-3 win at Blue FCU Arena in Loveland.
In his first game back, Filip Bystedt opened up the scoring to give San Jose their first lead of the game. Colorado quickly tied the game 30 seconds later. Jayson Megna, the older brother of former Shark Jason Megna, scored his 17th of the season.
The second period was a scoring frenzy. Colorado took their first lead of the game at 9:41, Cooper Gay scored his first AHL goal of the season. San Jose tied the game four minutes later, Scott Sabourin scored his seventh of the season. Colorado regained their lead when Jere Innala scored his 16th goal of the season. San Jose tied the game up once again when Patrick Giles scored his second goal in back to back games.
Taking advantage of Colorado’s fifth penalty taken, Patrick Giles scored his second of the night. With the primary assist, Filip Bystedt recorded his second point in his first game back from injury. San Jose extended their lead to 5-3 three minutes later when Lucas Vanroboys scored his 11th of the season. Sabourin registering the secondary assist, recorded his second point of the night.
Anthony Vincent sealed the win, scoring an empty net goal to improve the score to 6-3.
Keeping the trend going, San Jose was the better team at staying out of the box. San Jose took four penalties while Colorado took five. Majority of the penalties taken were in the second period when each team had two guys drop the gloves. For San Jose, Patrick Giles and Braden Hache. For Colorado, Chase Bradley and Ivan Ivan. San Jose was the only team to captialize, scoring one power-play goal.
Aaron Dell was tonight’s starting goalie, with Yaroslav Askarov backing him up. Dell recorded 15 saves on 18 shots. Dell’s record now moves to 2-3. For Colorado, Trent Miner was the starting goalie. Miner made 22 saves on 27 shots. Miner’s record now moves to 19-8.
THREE STARS OF THE GAME:
- 1. Patrick Giles, 2G
- 2. Cooper Gay, 1G
- 3. Filip Bystedt, 1G 1A
The Barracuda will be back in action tomorrow against the Colorado Eagles, looking to sweep the series.