AHL San Diego Gulls

Gulls Tripped up at San Jose 5-1

October 12, 2019 - American Hockey League (AHL)
San Diego Gulls News Release


The Gulls continued a season-opening three-game road trip with a 5-1 loss to the San Jose Barracuda at SAP Center.

Hunter Dew scored his first professional goal and point on the power play at 14:22. Kiefer Sherwood collected his second point in as many games with the primary assist and Blake Pietila earned his first point (assist) as a Gull.

Anthony Stolarz made 37 saves in the setback.

Antoine Morand made his professional debut after being selected by the Anaheim Ducks in the second round (60th overall) of the 2017 NHL Draft.

Gulls will conclude their season-opening road trip against the Stockton Heat tomorrow at Stockton Arena (6 p.m.) before returning to San Diego to host Stockton in their home opener Friday, Oct. 18 at Pechanga Arena San Diego (7 p.m.).

POSTGAME QUOTES

San Diego Gulls

Hunter Drew

On the game

I guess just moving the puck and getting the puck on net. I don't think we had enough shots tonight and I don't think we tested that goalie enough. We're playing tomorrow, that's something we're going to look forward to.

On San Jose

That's a fast team, they play fast. You have to give them credit. We kind of shot ourselves in the foot early. We have to be better than that. Like I said, we're playing tomorrow.

On his first professional goal

It's nice to score a goal, but I wish it meant a little more. Late in a loss isn't exactly how I drew it up, but yeah, it's nice.

On moving forward

I think there's a lot to learn for everyone. (Stolarz) kept us in that game the entire time. We didn't really help him out, myself especially. Like I said, tomorrow will be a lot better.

Head Coach Kevin Dineen

On the game

If you don't play hard, what happened to us tonight is going to happen to you. There's a lot of different areas that we have to improve on. Certainly our effort has to be much higher. We left our goalie out to dry way too many times. I was proud of the way Stolarz battled but your goalie can't be your hardest working player or else you're in trouble.

On special teams

It made a huge difference. We couldn't generate anything on the power play. Early in the first period our game was fine and then we took a couple penalties, too many men and then a slashing penalty. Two unnecessary penalties. Those are the ones that end up biting you in the tail and they certainly did tonight.

On playing Stockton tomorrow

I don't think you want to sit on this game for too long. We have belief in our group here and expect a much better effort tomorrow night.

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