The San Diego Gulls defeated the Ontario Reign at Pechanga Enviornment tonight in a marathon of a sport, 6-4.
The sport was filled with motion as San Diego tied their season excessive scoring report at six and marked their first back-to-back wins of the season. The Gulls’ report of their first 10 video games now sits at 4-4-2-0.
Goaltender Ville Husso stopped a season excessive 41 photographs, logging his fourth win of the season.
“It was wonderful at present,” Tim Washe mentioned on Husso’s efficiency. “Some performs we might have made to get out of some jams, however he was there for us to make the massive saves. He had one among his greatest video games all 12 months, made a bunch of saves and he was enormous.”
Judd Caulfield opened the scoring up late within the first interval with the assistance of Tim Washe on a shorthanded purpose. This marks Caulfield’s fourth purpose of the season and third profession shorthanded purpose. It additionally marks San Diego’s first shorthanded purpose this season. Caulfield ended the evening with a career-high 1-3=4 factors.
Nico Myatovic adopted go well with, logging a second shorthanded purpose for San Diego 5 minutes into the second interval. This offers the left winger two AHL profession shorthanded targets and two complete targets this season. Ryan Carpenter assisted the purpose, marking the captain’s fifth level on the season (2-3=5).
With about 5 minutes remaining within the center body, Nathan Gaucher discovered the again of the online for the primary time since returning from damage. Gaucher missed the again half of final season and first 5 video games of this season. Caulfield obtained his fingers on the puck for his second level of the evening whereas Nikolas Brouillard logged his first. This logs 4 factors in two video games for the defenseman.
“Yeah, it’s superior enjoying with [Tim] Washe, Nico [Myatovic] and [Nathan] Gaucher on the market for slightly bit too,” Caulfield mentioned. “These guys had been speaking to me all evening, simply making it simple for me to make performs to them by means of the center. They had been flying with pace and simply capable of beat their D males large and get some pucks to the online. They had been selecting their spots tonight and entering into. It’s nice to see it.”
Washe discovered one among his personal on a one-on-one to extend San Diego’s lead to 4-1. Myatovic logged his second level of the evening on the help and Caulfield logged his third, a season excessive for each gamers.
The motion didn’t cease there as Justin Bailey discovered his third of the season on a breakaway purpose. This marks back-to-back targets for the best winger, each being game-winning.
Washe discovered the online yet one more time to log his second two-goal, three-point evening of the season. He now holds 10 factors on his report (5-5=10) and leads all Gulls skaters in targets.
By Ashley Rubin/SanDiegoGulls.com
