The San Jose Barracuda forward Jake Middleton (21) and the Henderson Silver Knights left winger Danny O’Regan (21) scramble for the puck on Sun Mar 21, 2021 at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas (@sjbarracuda photo)
by Marko Ukalovic
LAS VEGAS, Nev.—The Henderson Silver Knights received goals from four different scorers and rode the back of their goaltender Logan Thompson in a 4-0 shutout victory over the San Jose Barracuda on Sunday afternoon at Orleans Arena.
Thompson stopped all 38 shots he faced for his first career AHL shutout. Henderson has won eight of their past nine games. San Jose has lost five of its past six games.
Henderson (13-2-0-0) drew first blood in the first five minutes of the first period on the power play. Lucas Elvenes skated from the left wing before centering a pass to a wide open Pavel Dorofeyev in the slot and he buried a one-timer past ‘Cuda goalie Zachary Sawchenko for his third goal of the season at the 4:46 mark.
This was the second game in a row San Jose (6-6-4-0) outshot Henderson and have lost the game. The ‘Cuda out shot the Knights 9-6 in the first period, 13-7 in the second and 16-8 in third.
The Silver Knights doubled its lead late in the middle frame. Gage Quinney’s shot from just beyond the faceoff circles was initially stopped by Sawchenko but Jack Dugan cleaned up the rebound for his second goal of the season at th 17:12 mark.
Despite the offensive attack from San Jose in the third period, Thompson kept the ‘Cuda off the scoreboard.
Henderson put the game away with an empty net goal from former San Jose Sharks propect Danny O’Regan at the 18:37 mark of the third period. Quinney received his second assist of the game on O’Regan’s fifth goal of the season.
Tyrell Goulbourne closed out the scoring for the Silver Knights 12 seconds later when he scored his first goal in 47 games after finishing off a centering pass from Paul Cotter.
Sawchenko, who made his first start in goal for the first since last March, finished the game with 17 shots on 20 shots in the losing effort.
GAME NOTES: San Jose went 0-for-5 on the power play. They went 0-for-8 in the two-game series. Henderson went 1-for-4. They had scored on three consecutive power plays against San Jose.
The Three Stars of the Game were: 1) Thompson 2) Dorofeyev 3) Dugan
The past two games Orleans fans had hosted fans for the first time this season.
UP NEXT: San Jose continues its roadtrip as they travel out to Bakersfield to take on the Condors on Wednesday 3/24 at 6:00pm at Mechanics Bank Arena.
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