March 13: Reign 4, Barracuda 1 + video/postgame notes

Ontario Reign 4, San Jose Barracuda 1
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SOG: ONT – 23; SJ – 19
PP: ONT – 0/1; SJ – 0/4

First Period
1) ONT – Brett Sutter (5) (Andrew Crescenzi), 6:55

Second Period
2) ONT – Michael Mersch (21) (Nic Dowd, Sean Backman), 1:09
3) ONT – Nic Dowd (13) (Michael Mersch, Sean Backman), 13:15

Third Period
4) SJ – John McCarthy (14) (unassisted), 8:53
5) ONT SHG – Justin Auger (13) (Andrew Crescenzi), 14:58

Ontario Reign (34-14-4-1) vs San Jose Barracuda (26-20-6-3)
Sunday, March 13, 2016, 5 p.m. PT
SAP Center, San Jose, CA
Referees: #42 Jake Brenk, #43 Tom Chmielewski
Linesmen: #23 Adam Bell, #37 Brett Martin
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ONT starters: G Peter Budaj, D Derek Forbort, D Kevin Gravel, LW Andrew Crescenzi, C Brett Sutter, RW Jonny Brodzinski
ONT scratches: D Zach Leslie, F Paul Bissonnette, F Joel Lowry, D Nick Ebert

SJ starters: G Troy Grosenick, D Gus Young, D Julius Bergman, LW Jeremy Morin, C Nikolay Goldobin, RW Jeremy Langlois
SJ scratches: G Aaron Dell, F Raffi Torres, F Frazer McLaren, D Mirco Mueller, D Rick Pinkston, F Daniel Doremus, F Alex Gallant

Notes and video

–Video of Sutter’s goal, his first with Ontario:

.@sutter_brett w/ his 1st for @ontarioreign! Reign 1 @sjbarracuda 0 pic.twitter.com/KRt6YmnthL

— Sheng Peng (@Sheng_Peng) March 14, 2016

–The second Reign goal, which was originally credited to Michael Mersch, then to Nic Dowd, then back to Mersch. So, looks like somewhere in there it’s ruled it hit off the left winger:

Dowd snipes it! @ontarioreign 2 @sjbarracuda 0 pic.twitter.com/WoyF0A36U8

— Sheng Peng (@Sheng_Peng) March 14, 2016

–Reign’s third goal, Mersch with some moves behind the net has San Jose lost in zone to set up Dowd in slot:

Mersch w/ moves like Jagr as he finds Dowd in front @ontarioreign 3 @sjbarracuda 0 pic.twitter.com/srA0GN4jHf

— Sheng Peng (@Sheng_Peng) March 14, 2016

–Justin Auger scored the Reign’s 5th SHG of the season on a breakaway in the third:

Auger also moves like Jagr! SH goal @ontarioreign 4 @sjbarracuda 1 pic.twitter.com/8DJjlKcCFj

— Sheng Peng (@Sheng_Peng) March 14, 2016

–Nic Dowd had his 10th multi-point game of the season, Michael Mersch his 8th, Sean Backman his 12th and Andrew Crescenzi his 4th. In all, the Reign’s first line of Mersch-Dowd-Backman finished with six points.

–The Reign improved to 20-0-0-0 when leading after the first period and 27-0-0-0 when leading after two periods.