Reign VS Barracuda: Round 1, Game 3 Preview

Ontario Reign VS San Jose Barracuda

Series: 1-1 (best of 5)

Day: April 28, 2016 (Citizens Business Bank Arena)

Time: 7:00 PM PST

Listen: Mixlr

Watch: AHL Live

Series Recaps: Game One, Game Two

Ontario Reign Lines

Mersch / Dowd / Backman

Kempe / Sutter / Brodzinski

Crescenzi / Newbury / Auger

Samuels-Thomas / Amadio / Bissonnette

MacDermid / LoVerde

Forbort / Gravel

Schultz / Raine

Budaj

Houser

Forward line rushes:
Sutter-Dowd-Backman
Mersch-Kempe-Brodzinski
JST-Amadio-Auger
Lowry-Newbury-Bissonnette

— Lindsay Czarnecki (@ReignInsider) April 29, 2016

• Mike Stothers said "there’s a good chance" that Michael Amadio plays over the injured Andrew Crescenzi and Ryan Horvat.
• Nic Dowd wants his line of Michael Mersch and Sean Backman to carry the puck in more. The Reign's top scorers also seek to get the power play going; they're gone zero-for-six so far in this series.
• San Jose has also, perhaps unexpectedly, held serve at even strength with Ontario. The Reign had controlled 59.3% of ES scoring chances in the regular season; in the first two games, the teams are tied 18 apiece.

San Jose Barracuda Lines

(based on last game, courtesy Fear the Fin)

Goodrow / Timmins / Carpenter

Morin / Langlois / Goldobin

Lerg / McCarthy / Parkes

Boudreau / Jevpalovs / Martin

Young / Ryan

Stollery / Bergman

McNally / Mueller

Dell

Grosenick

• The Barracuda went winless in six games at CBBA this year (0-4-2-0).
• Aaron Dell has stopped 69 of 73 shots in this series.
• John McCarthy thinks it's very important for San Jose to get out to a quick start on the road, "We can’t just sit back and let them play their game. We need a good start and we need to show them we’re going to play the game that we play."