The San Jose Barracuda have change into a headache for his or her opponents this postseason.
They took out the Ontario Reign in a two-game sweep of the groups’ first-round sequence. Now it’s the division champion Colorado Eagles who’re having to deal with a cussed Barracuda crew. San Jose has had this success with out injured ahead Andrew Poturalski, who led the AHL in regular-season scoring. Danil Gushchin, who missed the Ontario sequence, is again and delivered the profitable tally in San Jose’s 2-1 extra time win in Sport 2 on Sunday night time.
After which there’s Yaroslav Askarov, who held one of many AHL’s high offenses to 1 purpose on 28 pictures in Sport 2.
“He was nice,” Barracuda head coach John McCarthy told reporters. “He received us the sport.”
Because the mum or dad Sharks proceed to rebuild, gamers like Askarov and Gushchin rank as essential items of the group’s long-term plan. So does ahead Quentin Musty, who made his playoff debut Sunday. Taken twenty sixth total within the 2023 NHL Draft, Musty had 30 objectives and 59 factors in solely 33 video games for Sudbury of the Ontario Hockey League this season.
McCarthy preferred what he noticed from the 19-year-old Musty, who skated in three regular-season video games for the Barracuda after Sudbury’s season ended.
“I feel he’s an necessary a part of our group and wished to show him to a playoff sport, a playoff-style environment,” McCarthy defined. “I assumed he responded very well. He used his measurement. Has a capability to complete, which was the pondering behind placing him in, and I assumed he dealt with it very well.”
With the Colorado Avalanche exiting the Stanley Cup Playoffs, the Eagles added some goaltending depth Monday.
The Avalanche reassigned Kevin Mandolese to the Eagles after he had served because the NHL crew’s third goaltender throughout their Stanley Cup Playoff sequence in opposition to Dallas. Mandolese, 24, performed 19 video games for the Eagles and was 11-6-0 with a 2.87 goals-against common and .903 save proportion this season. His final look with the Eagles got here April 12 in a house begin in opposition to Henderson.
Mandolese joins Trent Miner, who has began the primary two video games of this sequence, and Adam Scheel as Colorado’s goaltenders. The Eagles have additionally had former College of Michigan netminder Jake Barczewski up from ECHL Utah.
― with information from Patrick Williams
