AHL San Diego Gulls

Late Score Salvages Point for Gulls

Published on March 11, 2018 under American Hockey League (AHL)
San Diego Gulls News Release


The San Diego Gulls scored with 2:26 remaining in regulation to force overtime but fell to the Bakersfield Condors, 3-2, in the extra session tonight at Rabobank Arena. San Diego has earned standings points in five of their last six games (2-1-2-1) and 13 of their last 16 (10-3-2-1) overall.

San Diego killed both Bakersfield power plays, and over the last eight games has successfully killed 25 of 27 (92.6%) opposition power plays. Since Jan. 26, the Gulls have killed off 54-of-58 (93.1%) PK opportunities and 65-of-70 (92.9%) since Jan. 17.

Nic Kerdiles scored his 11th goal and 28th point of the season 51 seconds into the second period to even the score at 1-1. The goal marked his 100th career AHL point (43-57=100) in his 164th career contest. The goal also set a new career high for points in a season (11-17=28) to surpass the 15-12-27 points he scored in 2015-16 with San Diego.

Kevin Roy earned an assist on Kerdiles' second-period tally, his 30th point (11-19=30) of the season and now has seven points (2-5=7) in his last six contests and 3-10=13 points his last 13 games. Defenseman Keaton Thompson also tallied an assist on the goal, his 11th this season.

Corey Tropp scored the game-tying goal with 2:26 remaining in the third period, his 14th marker of the season. Joe Blandisi earned his 19th assist of the campaign on the goal.

Reto Berra stopped 34-of-37 shots in the overtime setback.

The Gulls return to San Diego and open a three-game homestand beginning Tuesday, Mar. 13 vs. San Antonio (7 p.m.).

POSTGAME QUOTES

San Diego Gulls

Corey Tropp

On salvaging a point

Not good enough. I think if we walk out of here with two points, whenever you don't get two points you didn't play well enough. We have to get home, regroup and be ready for Tuesday. It's not going to get any easier. We're in a rough patch right now and we have to find a way out of it, I think. I haven't been that great lately, I haven't been good at all to be honest. I think we just have to all take a look in the mirror and come to the rink on Monday ready to work and try to bounce back Tuesday.

On the last two periods building good habits

In any game you can always take a couple good things and a few bad things. At the end of the night they won. Sometimes you might deserve a better fate but you dictate your own fate out there and if you're doing things correctly it's proven that you're usually rewarded and right now I don't think we're doing enough.

On Reto Berra

That guy's unbelievable. Both of our goaltenders have given us a chance. Kevin Boyle stepped in last night in a tough situation and shut the gate for 52 minutes and did his job to try to give us a chance to get back into it. We weren't able to do that, and tonight it's unfortunate. No one's coming in to change it for us, it starts with myself and a few other guys that have been leading the way most of the year. I think my game has tailed off a little bit the last couple games and I have to get back to what I need to be doing, and get the frustration out again. I think we have a lot of guys that might be frustrated right now. You're going to have stretches like this, it's the way it goes in a long season. When things are good it's easy breezy, but now we have to test our character to see what we're really made of now.

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