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Eakins Reaches 300 AHL Wins in Gulls' Victory

February 9, 2019 - American Hockey League (AHL)
San Diego Gulls News Release


The Gulls began a club record six-game road trip with a 6-4 win over the Ontario Reign at Citizens Business Bank Arena. San Diego has wins in 14 of their last 18 games (14-3-1-0) and points in 20 of 23 (17-3-1-2), in addition to points in 12 of their last 13 road games (9-1-1-2).

With the win, Gulls head coach Dallas Eakins became the 21st head coach in AHL history to reach 300 wins. In 560 career AHL games as a head coach, Eakins has a 300-199-27-34 record with San Diego (2015-present) and Toronto (2009-13). Eakins has led San Diego to a 143-85-12-8 record in 248 games to lead the Pacific Division in all-time wins, points (306) and points percentage (.617%) since the division's inception in 2015.

Corey Tropp netted two goals, including the game-winning goal, and added an assist for his 44th career multi-point effort and ninth multi-goal game. His three points tied a single-game career high set on 11 occasions (last: Nov. 23, 2018 vs. Stockton).

Chase De Leo recorded his sixth multi-goal game and first as a Gull with two goals to extend his point streak to four games (4-2=6). His 14th career multi-point game marked his 12th and 13th goals of the season (13-20=33).

Jack Kopacka scored his fourth goal of the season at the 2:03 mark of the final period and later picked up an assist for his first career multi-point game (1-1=2). Kopacka now has three goals in his last five games.

Max Jones picked up a goal 8:34 into the second period and added an assist for his ninth multi-point game of 2018-19. His 14th goal of the season moved him into a tie for seventh among rookie leaders.

Sam Carrick picked up an team-leading 42nd point (assist) to set a new career high (22-20=42) to surpass his previous of 41 set in 2017-18. Justin Kloos added an assist on De Leo's first goal to push his point and assist streaks to four games (0-5=5). Kloos has picked up six assists (0-6=6) in seven games with San Diego and has 2-12=14 points in his last 15 games overall.

Andrej Sustr, Kalle Kossila and Kiefer Sherwood each added assists.

Jeff Glass stopped 29-of-32 shots to mark his third win for San Diego in his 200th career AHL game.

San Diego will continue their six-game road trip against the Bakersfield Condors tomorrow, Feb. 9 at Rabobank Arena (7 p.m. PT, Radio: Mighty 1090).

POSTGAME QUOTES

San Diego Gulls

Chase De Leo

On playing with Justin Kloos and Kiefer Sherwood

It's good. I think when we get out there, we are using our speed to our advantage and being relentless on pucks. We're making the most of it and [pucks are] starting to go in so it's definitely a good feeling.

On the win

We needed that one. Obviously we weren't happy with our last game and we have pretty high expectations. I think it was definitely a good bounce back and we can enjoy it for a few minutes here before we forget about it and move on to Bakersfield.

Head Coach Dallas Eakins

On the game

The bounce-back was good. I thought Ontario played a real good period in the first. I thought we had a great start and it started to fall away from us. We were trying early in the second, but it was going against us, but again, the resilience of the group to stay in the fight. Through that resilience, we were able to get a win

On the third period

All the periods are critical, right from the first second to the last of the game. When you can shut down these teams in the third period and give them very little, you're chances are going way up to close out these games.

On Jeff Glass

He was unbelievable in the first period. He kept us in it when we needed him. I thought overall it was a really good night for him. He's another guy that's had to work through adversity not playing a whole lot. He's been an excellent teammate, a good-character guy and he's worked his tail off waiting for his opportunity and here it is.

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