To say Kevin Dineen’s first season as San Diego Gulls head coach didn’t begin the way he’d hoped might be putting it lightly. “Kind of a slow start? When you start 0-6, boy that is a tough tough way to get off.” But in the back half of the regular season, Dineen has his team back in playoff contention,...

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Sometimes you have one of those nights that’s so good you can’t really explain how it happened. That was the case for Kiefer Sherwood on Friday night. The Gulls forward recorded his first career hat trick in a 5-3 win over San Jose at Pechanga Arena. That’s a fantastic feat in itself but the way Sherwood scored the three...

On Friday night the Gulls let a 2-0 lead get away in a 4-3 overtime loss in Grand Rapids. San Diego got another shot at the Griffins on Saturday night and this time they didn’t let the advantage out of their hands. The Gulls scored a pair of 3rd period goals, one of them almost on accident, in a...

The Gulls started Friday night’s game against Iowa on a 5-game losing streak. All but one of those losses was by one goal. You had to figure eventually things would turn their way. Murphy’s Law finally worked in their favor. Josh Mahura scored in overtime to give San Diego a much-needed 4-3 win over the Wild, but it didn’t...

Sometimes you don’t play very well and lose. Other times you play really well but run into someone who’s having one of the best nights of his career and still lose. The latter happened to the Gulls on Saturday night in a 2-1 shootout loss to Bakersfield. San Diego’s lone goal came in the 1st period when captain Sam...

The Gulls opened a season-long 5-game homestand on Friday night at Pechanga Arena. This stretch will take them up to the season’s halfway point so standings points now are at a premium. They’ll have to start building those points in game two. San Diego got off to a bad start against Bakersfield, tied the game, and lost 3-2 on...

The Gulls weren’t at full strength in their loss to San Jose on Friday night.