San Jose, CA – On Monday night at SAP Center at San Jose, in the first meeting since last year’s Calder Cup Divisional Semi-Final matchup, the San Jose Barracuda (4-0-0-1) handed the Tucson Roadrunners (3-0-0-1) their first defeat in 2018-19, 3-2 in a shootout.
After a scoreless opening period, Dylan Gambrell (3) netted the game’s first tally at 14:43 of the second period when Nick DeSimone won a race to the puck in the right corner, centered for Francis Perron who then found Gambrell in the slot. Tucson 
evened the score at 16:50 when Dakota Mermis (1) wristed a seeing-eye shot from the deep-left point. Tucson would then take its first lead at 17:06 when Laurent Dauphin found former Barracuda forward Adam Helewka (4) on a two-on-one.
In the third, down by a goal, Perron (4) sniped a wrister inside the left post at 12:20, nine seconds into San Jose’s power play to even the score at 2-2. The goal gave Perron his third multi-point night of the season and extended his point streak to five games. It was also the fifth-straight game in which the Barracuda scored on the man-advantage.
In overtime, Jayden Halbgewachs worked his way around Hunter Miska but his backhander was denied and so the game continued. Later in overtime Helewka was sprung free on a breakaway but Antoine Bibeau robbed his five-hole shot.
After 65 minutes, the game needed a shootout and in round six Alex True snapped the game-winner past Miska to earn San Jose the additional point and their fourth win of the season.
Bibeau (2-0-0-1) earned the victory by making 31 saves while Miska took the hard-luck loss after giving up two goals on San Jose’s season-high 37 shots.
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