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Power Play Success Not Enough for Gulls

March 7, 2019 - American Hockey League (AHL)
San Diego Gulls News Release


The Gulls opened a three-game homestand with a 7-5 loss to the Stockton Heat at Pechanga Arena San Diego. San Diego scored four power-play goals (4-for-8) to tie a club record set on two previous occasions: (last: Jan. 5, 2018 vs. San Jose; 4-for-5).

Adam Cracknell recorded his first multi-goal game of the season, netting his 14th and 15th tallies of the season while also adding an assist (2-1=3). The three points extended his point streak to six games (5-5=10) and he now has scored 11-9=20 points his last 13 games and 12-11=23 points in 20 games since joining San Diego on Dec. 10. Cracknell has also scored his six consecutive home games (7-3=10).

Sam Carrick recorded his 50th and 51st points of the season with two assists to continue to pace the Gulls in scoring (27-24=51). Carrick became the fifth Gull in club history to reach the 50-point milestone, joining Kalle Kossila (21-33=54, 2017-18), Corey Tropp (21-33=54, 2016-17), Brandon Montour (12-45=57, 2015-16) and Chris Mueller (20-37=57, 2015-16). He has now collected 5-4=9 points his last seven games and 22 points (10-12=22) his last 22 games.

Kalle Kossila picked up a goal and assist (1-1=2) for his eighth multi-point game of the season. Kossila has scored 30 points (12-18=30) in 31 games this season.

Andy Welinski also scored a goal and added an assist (1-1=2) for his third multi-point effort of 2018-19.

Kiefer Sherwood earned an assist to push his career high point streak to five games (1-5=6).

Corey Tropp scored his 17th goal of the season while Trevor Murphy and Justin Kloos also recorded assists.

The Gulls will continue the homestand with a back-to-back matchup against the Colorado Eagles on Friday, Mar. 8 (7 p.m.) and Saturday, Mar. 9 (7 p.m., TV: FOX 5 San Diego).

POSTGAME QUOTES

San Diego Gulls

Adam Cracknell

On the game

When we get the kills, we want to get the kills. When we're on the power play, we obviously want to score. That's a hungry team over there. We've played them three times in a row and they've played us hard every game. They're fighting for their lives right now and they showed that tonight. They were consistent through the whole game, they took advantage of opportunities and came out with the win. That's a tough one for us, especially at home. Two days later, we get to redeem ourselves.

On the team

Once you walk in that dressing room, everyone is about playing together. We have that mentality. We have a good skill level, but we do all the right things too. Everyone is having individual success and at the end of the day we want team success. I think everybody is really buying into what Dallas wants, what the organization wants and what we want too. We want success as a team and we want to make a run for the Calder (Cup). Guys are buying in, we have guys blocking shots, no matter what time it is in the game. It might not be all the guys getting the glory, but for us to go deep in the playoffs, everyone needs to contribute in different areas.

Head Coach Dallas Eakins

On the game

It's a hard one to evaluate because, we were just going through what we want to go over in practice tomorrow, and most of it is positive. It was a night where our power play was excellent. Other than a couple of tough clears, our penalty kill was great. We had an unbelievable amount of scoring chances and when we needed to score, we couldn't. They were certainly opportunistic when they scored.

On the upcoming back-to-back against Colorado

We want to keep our power play going the way it is. Both [special teams] units were very good tonight and going down the stretch that is going to be critical. I liked the way we worked tonight, we want to stay on that. The thing with Colorado is they are a team that is chasing us. We've had very close games against them in their rink before. We've got to be ready for a very close matchup.

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