San Diego concluded a season-long five-game homestand with a 6-5 loss to the Stockton Heat.
Giovanni Fiore netted his fifth goal of the season (5-3=8) to open the scoring at 2:22 of the first period. Fiore has collected four points his last four games (2-2=4). Ben Thomson registered his fifth point of the season and Deven Sideroff tallied his fifth assist on the goal.
Corey Tropp matched a career high with his first three-point game of the season, scoring two goals and earning an assist (2-1=3). It marked his second multi-goal game his last three games, scoring four goals in that span (4-1=5). He has recorded 5-3=8 points his last seven games, and leads San Diego in scoring (6-11=17) and assists this season. The three points tied a career high for Tropp, the 10th time of his career doing so (last: Jan. 3, 2018 at Texas; 3-0=3).
Sam Steel collected a career high three points (2-1=3), his first multi-goal and multi-point game. Steel scored two goals 30 seconds apart in the second period and added an assist on Tropp’s first goal to extend his point streak to four games dating to Nov. 10 (3-3=6). Steel also has four points his last two games (3-1=4).
Joseph Blandisi also recorded an assist on the first Tropp goal and is also riding a four-game point and assist streak (0-4=4).
Troy Terry extended his club record and AHL-leading point streak to 11 games with an assist on Tropp’s second goal. Terry has recorded a point in all 11 career AHL games (7-9=16) since his debut on Oct. 19, including all nine home games (7-7=14). Terry’s point streak is the longest by an AHL rookie since Evgeny Svechnikov (Grand Rapids) recorded a 12-game point streak from Jan. 20-Feb. 17, 2017 (5-9=14).
Andy Welinski recorded his sixth point (2-4=6) of the season with an assist.
Luke Schenn earned his first AHL point (assist) on the second Steel goal. Chase De Leo also tallied an assist on the goal, his ninth point of 2018-19 (4-5=9).
Jared Coreau made 26 saves in the setback. Coreau stopped his second career penalty shot at 15:09 of the second period, denying Curtis Lazar’s attempt. Coreau has stopped two penalty shots this season (also Oct. 26 vs. Stockton; no goal), and has faced four in his AHL career (2-for-2).
San Diego goaltenders have faced three penalty shot attempts this season, a season high, with each of the three unsuccessful. In the seven all-time penalty shot attempts, the Gulls have held stopped 5-of-7 attempts to hold opponents to a 28.6 percent success rate.
Tonight’s attendance was 8,004. The Gulls tonight welcomed their one millionth fan in the club’s 112th game. All-time, the Gulls have welcomed 1,002,784 fans to Valley View Casino Center dating the inaugural 2015-16 AHL season. San Diego has averaged 8,953 fans per game in its history.
San Diego leads the AHL in attendance this season (8,968 average) and has led the Pacific Division in attendance each of the past three seasons. San Diego led the AHL in attendance in 2017-18 (9,305 average), the first team in 12 seasons to usurp the Hershey Bears in attendance.
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