Gulls Set for Second Showdown with Barracuda
Nov 19, 2025
By Ashley Rubin/SanDiegoGulls.com
The San Diego Gulls will face the San Jose Barracuda for the second time this season tonight at Pechanga Arena San Diego (7 p.m. PT; TV: AHLTV on FloHockey; Radio: Gulls Audio Network).
The teams last met on Oct. 29 where the Gulls shut out the Barracuda, 3-0. Since then, San Diego has picked up nine points bringing their total to 15 points and record to 6-4-3-0. The teams still stand close as the Barracuda lead the Gulls with only one more point with one more game played, giving them a record of 7-5-1-0. A victory by San Diego tonight will put them over San Jose and mark a three-game winning streak.
The Gulls set a new season-high scoring record in their last matchup on Saturday where they shutout the Abbotsford Canucks, 7-0. Ville Husso logged his fifth shutout with San Diego, tying the Gulls AHL record for total shutouts with the franchise.
"I feel like, for us, it's like every game is a new game," Husso said. "Whoever we face, we don't worry too much about them. We'll worry about our own stuff. We’re like 13 to 14 games down now in the season, so when we take care of our own game, we’ll be in a good spot every night."
Justin Bailey increased his points on the season to seven (7-0=7), logging back-to-back multi-goal games. The right winger scored the opening goal shorthanded, marking his fourth game-winning goal in a row. He picked up his second of the night with the seventh goal, breaking the season scoring record.
Judd Caulfield also had a big night, recording his first AHL career multi-goal game. Caulfield found back-to-back goals in the second period, bringing his points on the season to 6-3=9. Sasha Pastujov, Ryan Carpenter, and Sam Colangelo were the other three scorers of the night.
Tyson Hinds and Cal Burke both picked up their first points of the season on assists, with Hinds finding two. Nathan Gaucher, Matthew Phillips, Tim Washe, Jan Mysak, Roland McKeown, and Nikolas Brouillard all also logged assists. Brouillard picked up two, leaving him one point away from becoming the first Gulls defenseman in franchise history to log 100 points with the team.
"If we weren't creating all the way through there, we'd be feeling like, hey where's our offense, what's happening," head coach Matt McIlvane said. "When you're creating scoring chances you know that you can just stay with it. We've been one of the top teams in the American League the whole year as far as generating scoring chances and shots in the slots and stuff like that. So eventually you're going to get rewarded. It's happening for us right now. We just got to keep our foot in the gas with it."
San Diego will hit the road on Friday to take on the Coachella Valley Firebirds at Acrisure Arena (7 p.m. PT).