San Jose Barracuda

San Jose Barracuda
2015–16 AHL season
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City	San Jose, California
League	American Hockey League (AHL)
Conference	Western Conference
Division	Pacific Division
Founded	1996
Operated	2015–present
Home arena	SAP Center
Colors	Teal, orange, black, white
Owner(s)	San Jose Sports & Entertainment Enterprises (Hasso Plattner, Governor)
General manager	Joe Will
Head coach	Roy Sommer
Affiliates	San Jose Sharks (NHL) Allen Americans (ECHL)
Franchise history
1996–2001	Kentucky Thoroughblades
2001–2006	Cleveland Barons
2006–2015	Worcester Sharks
2015–present	San Jose Barracuda

The San Jose Barracuda are a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League (AHL) which began play in the 2015–16 season. Affiliated with the National Hockey League's San Jose Sharks, the Barracuda share the SAP Center with its parent club.

The Barracuda are a relocation of the former Worcester Sharks AHL franchise, joining several other AHL franchises to form a new AHL Pacific Division.

History

On January 29, 2015, the San Jose Sharks announced that they would be moving their AHL affiliate, the Worcester Sharks, to San Jose as one of five charter members of the AHL's new Pacific Division. The team will play at the SAP Center at San Jose, being one of two of the current AHL teams to share a home arena with its parent club (along with the Manitoba Moose sharing the MTS Centre with their parent Winnipeg Jets).

On April 1, 2015, the Silicon Valley Business Journal reported that the Sharks had signed a multi-year presenting sponsorship with Barracuda Networks to be the AHL team's presenting sponsor; the team name would be called the San Jose Barracuda and the reported team logo would feature the corporate logo in the background. Neither the Sharks nor Barracuda would comment, however, they stated that an official announcement would come later in the week. The name and logo were confirmed the next day in a joint press release.

Friday October 9th 2015 marked the first official game in Barracuda history. They took on the Rockford IceHogs at home, coming up on the losing end of a 4-2 score. Micheal Haley scored the first ever franchise goal while on a power play in the first period. The Barracuda picked up the first win in franchise history while visiting the Stockton Heat on October 15th by a the score of 4-1. The Barracuda would finish the season 31-26-8-3. Their .527 winning percentage meant that they would be matched up against the Ontario Reign during the Pacific Division semifinals. After splitting the first two games of the best-of-five series, the Barracuda would come out on the losing end of game three by a 3-1 score, and would also lose game four by a score of 4-1 to end their season. Bryan Lerg and Nikolay Goldobin led the team in goals with 21, while Ryan Carpenter had a team high 55 points. Goaltender Aaron Dell played a team high 40 games in net for the Barracuda, while winning 17 of them. The team's average attendance of 4412 placed them 24th of 30 in the AHL.

Players

Current Roster

Updated March 23, 2016.

#	Nat	Player	Pos	S/G	Age	Acquired	Birthplace	Contract
63		Julius Bergman	D	R	28	2015	Stockholm, Sweden	Sharks
40		Ryan Carpenter	C/RW	R	33	2015	Oviedo, Florida	Sharks
30		Aaron Dell	G	L	34	2015	Airdrie, Alberta	Sharks
72		Danny Doremus	C	R	32	2015	Aspen, Colorado	Barracuda
55		Petter Emanuelsson	RW	R	32	2015	Kiruna, Sweden	Sharks
79		Alex Gallant	LW	L	31	2015	Summerside, Prince Edward Island	Barracuda
82		Nikolay Goldobin	RW	L	28	2015	Moscow, Russia	Sharks
89		Barclay Goodrow	LW	L	31	2015	Toronto, Ontario	Sharks
1		Troy Grosenick	G	L	34	2015	Brookfield, Wisconsin	Sharks
38		Micheal Haley (A)	C	L	38	2015	Guelph, Ontario	Sharks
53		Nikita Jevpalovs	LW	R	29	2015	Riga, Latvia	Sharks
86		Jeremy Langlois	RW	R	33	2015	Tempe, Arizona	Sharks
11		Bryan Lerg (C)	LW	L	38	2015	Livonia, Michigan	Sharks
17		John McCarthy (A)	C/LW	L	37	2015	Boston, Massachusetts	Sharks
23		Frazer McLaren	LW	L	36	2015	Winnipeg, Manitoba	Sharks
51		Patrick McNally	D	L	32	2015	Glen Head, New York	Sharks
21		Jeremy Morin	LW	R	33	2016	Auburn, New York	Sharks
41		Mirco Mueller	D	L	29	2015	Winterthur, Switzerland	Sharks
84		Trevor Parkes	RW	R	32	2015	Fort Erie, Ontario	Barracuda
43		Rick Pinkston	D	L	33	2015	Trenton, Michigan	Barracuda
47		Joakim Ryan	D	L	30	2015	Rumson, New Jersey	Sharks
3		Karl Stollery	D	L	36	2015	Camrose, Alberta	Sharks
77		Scott Timmins	C	L	34	2015	Hamilton, Ontario	Barracuda
13		Raffi Torres Injured Reserve	LW	L	42	2016	Toronto, Ontario	Maple Leafs
70		Gus Young	D	L	32	2015	Dedham, Massachusetts	Barracuda

External links

• San Jose Barracuda Official Website