2020-21 SAN JOSE BARRACUDA ROSTER (As of March 3, 2021) NO FORWARD HT WT S BORN BIRTHPLACE 2019-20 TEAM LGE GP G A PTS PIM ACQ 11 Stefan Noesen 6-2 205 L 2/12/93 Plano, Texas San Jose NHL 34 6 2 8 32 WV/20 Pittsburgh NHL 6 1 0 1 0 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton AHL 22 14 8 22 58 14 Antti Suomela 6-0 180 L 3/17/94 Espoo, Finland San Jose NHL 20 1 6 7 4 FA/18 San Jose AHL 14 5 4 9 6 37 Fredrik Handemark 6-4 210 L 9/27/93 Bjorbo, Sweden Malmo SHL 25 6 9 15 16 FA/20 45 Lean Bergmann 6-2 205 L 10/4/98 Iserlohn, Germany San Jose NHL 12 0 1 1 4 FA/19 San Jose` AHL 31 8 9 17 49 55 Sasha Chmelevski 6-0 185 R 6/9/99 Huntington Beach, California San Jose AHL 42 11 16 27 22 ED/17 58 Dillon Hamaliuk 6-3 200 L 10/30/00 Leduc, Alberta Kelowna WHL 56 15 16 31 65 ED/10 60 Zach Gallant 6-2 192 L 3/6/99 London, Ontario Peterborough WHL 59 33 32 65 89 FA/19 63 Jeffrey Viel 6-2 205 L 1/28/97 Rimouski, Quebec San Jose AHL 54 13 17 30 103 FA/18 64 Jake McGrew 5-11 187 R 2/25/99 Orange, California Spokane WHL 6 5 3 8 9 ED/17 73 Noah Gregor 6-0 185 L 7/28/98 Beaumont, Alberta San Jose NHL 28 3 2 5 8 ED/16 San Jose AHL 25 7 12 19 15 78 Evan Weinger 6-1 195 R 4/18/97 El Segundo, California San Jose AHL 38 9 11 20 2 FA/18 84 Maxim Letunov 6-4 190 L 2/20/96 Moskva, Russia San Jose NHL 3 1 0 1 0 TR/16 San Jose AHL 50 12 28 40 12 89 Jayden Halbgewachs 5-9 165 L 3/22/97 Emerald Park, Saskatchewan San Jose AHL 55 19 16 35 18 FA/17 93 Brandon Coe 6-4 190 R 12/1/01 Toronto, Ontario North Bay OHL 60 25 32 57 39 ED/20 NO DEFENSE HT WT S BORN BIRTHPLACE 2019-20 TEAM LGE GP G A PTS PIM ACQ 6 Ryan Merkley 5-11 175 R 8/14/00 Mississauga, Ontario London OHL 60 15 61 76 48 ED/18 21 Jake Middleton 6-3 209 L 1/2/96 Stratford, ON San Jose NHL 10 0 2 2 9 FA/16 San Jose AHL 32 1 5 6 52 24 Jaycob Megna 6-6 220 L 12/10/92 Plantation, Florida Chicago AHL 60 3 7 10 40 FA/20 47 Christian Jaros 6-4 220 R 4/2/96 Kosice, Slovakia Ottawa NHL 13 0 3 3 6 TR/21 Belleville AHL 34 2 13 15 14 50 Brinson Pasichnuk 6-0 185 L 11/24/97 Bonnyville, Alberta Arizona State Independent 36 11 26 37 18 FA/20 53 Nicolas Meloche 6-3 205 R 7/18/97 LaSalle, Quebec San Jose AHL 41 0 7 7 34 TR/19 68 Robbie Russo 6-0 195 R 2/15/93 Westmont, Illinois Tucson AHL 53 2 17 19 35 TO/20 77 Karlis Cukste 6-4 220 L 7/18/97 Riga, Latvia Quinnipiac ECAC 34 4 14 18 14 FA/15 NO GOALTENDER HT WT C BORN BIRTHPLACE 2019-20 TEAM LGE GP MIN GAA W-L-T SO SV% ACQ 1 Alexei Melnichuk 6-1 187 L 6/29/98 St. Petersburg, Russia SKA St. Petersburg KHL 16 892 1.68 8-5-1 4 .930 FA/20 34 Sam Harvey 6-1 185 L 2/4/98 Alma, Quebec Univ. of New Brunswick USports 16 965 1.87 14-2-0 4 .912 TO/20 36 Zachary Sawchenko 6-1 175 L 12/30/97 Calgary, Alberta San Jose AHL 13 753 2.87 6-4-2 1 .911 FA/19 Allen ECHL 13 792 2.35 8-2-3 2 .930 Acquired: ED/YR= Entry Draft/Year Drafted Head Coach : Roy Sommer Vice President: Jon Gustafson FA/YR= Free Agent/Year Signed Assistant Coach: Jimmy Bonneau & Michael Chiasson General Manager: Joe Will WV/YR= Picked up off of waivers Development Coach: Dany Sabourin & John McCarthy PR / Broadcaster: N ick Nollenb e rgGener eral Manager: AHL/YR= AHL Contract/Year Signed Video Coach: Nick Gialdini TR/YR= Through Trade/Year Acquired Head Athle tic Trainer: Will Leonard PTO= Player Tryout Agreement Assistant Athletic Trainer: Gianluca Scotuzzi Home Arena: SAP Center Strength and Conditioning Coach: Marcello Martinelli NHL Affiliate: San Jose Sharks Locker Room Attendant: Marley Sommer SAN JOSE BARRACUDA GAME NOTES PROUD AHL AFFILIATE OF THE: SAN JOSE BARRACUDA (3-3-1-0) AT SAN DIEGO GULLS (8-4-0-0) DATE TEAM RESULT J FRIDAY, MAR. 5 | 7 PM PT | FIVEPOINT ARENA | IRVINE, CA 2/7 TUC (T) 1-2 OTL 2/8 TUC (T) 3-5 L 2/12 @TEX 5-2 W GAME NOTES | GAME 8 | WATCH: AHLTV | LISTEN: SHARKS + SAP CENTER APP 2/13 @TEX 3-5 L 2/16 @TEX POSTPONED Down South: The Barracuda wrap up their three-game road trip with back-to-back 2/19 @TUC POSTPONED games against the San Diego Gulls starting Friday night at FivePoint Arena. The Gulls, 2/20 @TUC POSTPONED who are playing out of Irvine, California, this season, began the year with a franchise- 2/21 @TUC POSTPONED best 7-0-0-0 record but have since gone 1-4-0-0 over their last five games after a 5-4 2/25 BAK POSTPONED 2/27 ONT (S) 6-3 W overtime win against Ontario on Wednesday. Last season, the Barracuda went 4-5-2-0 2/28 ONT (S) 3-1 W against the Gulls and 2-3-0-0 in Southern California. 3/3 @BAK(S) 0-6 L 3/5 @SD (I) 7 PM Up and Down: On Tuesday, the Barracuda recalled goaltender Josef Korenar, 3/6 @SD 7:30 PM defenseman Nick DeSimone and forwards Joachim Blichfeld, Kurtis Gabriel, and Joel 3/9 SD (S) 6 PM Kellman. Before his recall, Blichfeld (6+3=9) was riding a five-game point streak and 3/12 BAK 6 PM ranked first on the team in goals, points, shots (25), shooting percentage (33%), and 3/13 BAK 6 PM 3/16 @BAK 6 PM tied for first on the team in plus/minus (+4), power-play goals (1), game-winning goals 3/17 BAK 6 PM (1), and first goals (1). In a corresponding move, the Sharks assigned goaltender Alexei 3/20 @HEN 1 PM Melnichuk, defenseman Nicolas Meloche and forwards Sasha Chmelevski, Noah 3/21 @HEN 12 PM Gregor, and Stefan Noeson. 3/24 @BAK 6 PM 3/30 BAK 6 PM California Connection: Barracuda captain Jaycob Megna and forward Stefan Noesen 4/3 SD 7 PM were once teammates with the San Diego Gulls. Megna, who was drafted by Anaheim 4/6 HEN 5 PM in 2012, spent his first five professional seasons within the Ducks organization before 4/7 HEN (S) 6 PM 4/10 @BAK 6 PM signing with Vegas last year. In 2018-19, he served as the Gulls’ captain. Noesen was a 4/11 @ONT 3 PM first-round pick of the Senators in 2011 but was traded to Anaheim two years later in 4/13 TEX (S) 4 PM a deal that included Bobby Ryan. Over his four-year career within the Ducks 4/14 @TEX (S) 5 PM organization, Noesen skated in 77 games for the Gulls, racking up 48 points 4/16 TEX 4 PM (17+31=48). On the other side, two former Sharks prospects are now property of 4/17 TEX 4 PM Anaheim. On Jan. 27, 2021, the Sharks traded defenseman Trevor Carrick to Anaheim 4/20 SD 6 PM in exchange for forward Jack Kopacka. The team turned around and traded Kopacka 4/21 SD 6 PM 4/25 @ONT 3 PM to the Ottawa Senators along with a seventh-round draft pick for defenseman 4/27 BAK 6 PM Christian Jaros. Former Sharks’ second-round pick Jeremy Roy is also on San Diego’s 4/30 HEN 6 PM roster, currently on a professional tryout agreement. 5/1 HEN 6 PM 5/3 BAK(S) 4 PM California Dreaming: Barracuda forwards Sasha Chmelevski, Jake McGrew, and Evan 5/8 @HEN(V)1 PM Weinger all return back to their native Southern California this weekend. Chmelevski, 5/10 @HEN 7 PM who was born in Huntington Beach before moving to Michigan in his early teens, E = EL SEGUNDO made his NHL debut on Feb. 5 at Anaheim, making Sharks history by assisting on I = IRVINE fellow Californian Matt Nieto’s goal. McGrew, who was selected along with S = SOLAR4AMERICA ICE T = TUCSON Chmelevski in the 2017 NHL Draft by the Sharks, grew up just 15 minutes from Irvine V = T-MOBILE ARENA (LAS VEGAS, NV) in Orange California. Weinger grew up in El Segundo, California, which is 45 minutes ALL TIMES PACIFIC from Irvine. REGULAR SEASON TEAM LEADERS (2020-21) REGULAR SEASON (2020-21) Points: 9, J. Blichfeld Home: 2-1-1 Goals: 6, J. Blichfeld Road: 1-2-0 Assists: 4, J. Kellman/N. DeSimone/A. Suomela Pacific Division: 2-2-1 PP Goals: 1, A. True/J. Halbgewachs/J. Blichfeld Central Division: 1-1-0 SH Goals: 1, F.