The Astana-based hockey club Barys closed out its three-game home stand with a convincing 4:1 victory over Yekaterinburg's Avtomobilist, infohub.kz reports.
The visitors held the early edge. Anatoly Golyshev should have opened the scoring but failed to lift the puck over Andrei Shutov, who again replaced Hunter Shepard in net.
By the middle of the first period, Barys had found its game. Chase Priske fired a shot from the blue line past Belarusian-born Ural netminder Lawrence Zinaddin to make it 1:0.
KONTINENTAL HOCKEY LEAGUE 2026/27
Eastern Conference. October 14
🏒 BARYS (Astana, Kazakhstan) – AVTOMOBILIST (Yekaterinburg, Russia) 4:1 (1:0, 1:1, 2:0)
Goals: Priske (McCoshen, Asetov) 10:13 (1:0), Kashtanov (Denezhkin, Clague) 27:22 (1:1), Massi (Shestakov) 38:42 PPG (2:1), Kaiyrzhan (Priske, Bailey) 49:30 (3:1), Omirbekov (Pilon) 54:32 (4:1)
The teams traded goals in the second period. After Artyom Kashtanov scored, Jake Massi responded in kind on the power play to make it 2:1.
In the final 20 minutes, Dinmukhamed Kaiyrzhan redirected a shot from Priske, the scorer of the first goal. Then Avtomobilist's Kirill Vorobyov did the same, but into his own net. The own goal was credited to Alikhan Omirbekov, making it 4:1.
Barys secured its fourth win in five games and returned to third place in the East.
The KHL regular season, which began on September 5, will run until March 20, 2027. Each of the 22 teams will play 68 games. Based on the regular-season standings, eight teams from each conference qualify for the playoffs.
Having completed its three-game home stand, Barys, due to the quirks of the KHL schedule, will play nine consecutive road games.