Gulls Return Home for Battle with Barracuda
Nov 11, 2026By Ashley Rubin/SanDiegoGulls.com
The San Diego Gulls and San Jose Barracuda gear up for the fourth contest of their eight game season series tonight at Pechanga Arena San Diego (7 p.m. PST; TV: AHLTV on FloHockey; Radio: Gulls Audio Network).
San Diego has earned standings points in each of the previous three meetings this season, going 2-0-1-0 against San Jose so far. The teams last met on Saturday, Oct. 24, where the Gulls won 4-1 on home ice. Since then, the Gulls have gone 4-4-2-0 in their past 10 games while San Jose has gone 5-5-0-0. The clubs are separated by just one point in the standings with San Diego holding 13 points, tied for seventh in the Pacific Division, and San Jose holding 12 points.
The Gulls are coming off a back-to-back road series with the Henderson Silver Knights where they dropped both games, one being in overtime. The team was shutout in their contest on Nov. 6 but found a late regulation goal to tie the contest on Nov. 7 to send the game to overtime and collect a point. The late goal by Lucas Pettersson with help from Matt Basgall and James Hamblin hit the back of the net with just 2.7 seconds remaining. Despite not walking away with a win, that goal ensured the team did not leave the weekend pointless.
"Overall, we didn’t get the points that we wanted," assistant coach Steve McCarthy said. "Obviously you want four points, but we did a lot of good things. We’re creating chances. As a staff, that’s when you worry a little bit if we’re not creating offensive chances. The defensive game is there, that seems to be working. Offensively, we’re getting snake bitten a little bit. We talked about getting more traffic, we talked about getting to the net, being a little selfish, just getting a lot of pucks on net which we’re doing. Give them [Henderson] credit, they have a couple good goaltenders. Overall, just stick with what we’re doing but limit the frustration. Offensive guys like to score so that becomes a little bit frustrating for them but overall, the attitude is good, we have good leadership and the young guys are coming along. But we expect ourselves to start putting some goals in the net for sure."
The Barracuda are coming off a shutout themselves, as they defeated the Bakersfield Condors 1-0 in their last contest on Saturday, Nov. 7. The night before, the team fell to the Condors 3-2, giving them a two-point weekend.
San Diego will head on the road this weekend where they will meet with the Condors for the first time this season on Nov. 13 at Dignity Health Arena before getting right back at it with the Barracuda on Nov. 14 at Tech CU Arena.