Astana's Barys claimed its second straight road win beyond regulation: after a 5-4 overtime victory in Nizhnekamsk, the Kazakh team beat Spartak in Moscow 4-3 in a shootout, infohub.kz reports.
Spartak had lost five games in a row before facing Barys. The Muscovites were just a minute and a half away from ending that skid. But the visitors, trailing 2-3, pulled Andrei Shutov for a sixth skater, and Tai Thompson tied it at 3-3 in the penultimate minute of the third period.
KONTINENTAL HOCKEY LEAGUE 2026/27
October 4
🏒 SPARTAK (Moscow, Russia) – BARYS (Astana, Kazakhstan) 3:4 SO (0:0, 2:2, 1:1, 0:0, 0:1)
Goals: Gutik (Kotlyarov, Orlov) 27:30 (1:0), Day (Omirbekov, Shestakov) 30:16 (1:1), Asetov (Day, Shaikhmeddenov) 34:18 (2:2), Pivchulin 36:48 PP (2:2), Lockhart (Lukyantsev) 48:18 (3:2), Thompson (Day, Morelli) 58:22 6-on-5 (3:3), Pilon 65:00 (4:3)
Shootout: Bailey (saved), Galchenyuk (saved), Savitsky (missed), Lockhart (missed), Lyapunov (missed), Comtois (missed), Comtois (saved), Pilon 0:1
Notably, Mikhail Kravets' men have now rescued a game with an empty net twice in a row. And for the second time, the tying goal came off a Logan Day assist, beating the opposing goaltender with a powerful long-range shot. Garrett Pilon scored that way against Neftekhimik, and Thompson against Spartak.
Both the Muscovites and the Astana side went to a post-game shootout for the first time in KHL 2026/27. Seven attempts failed before the aforementioned Pilon converted the eighth.
With the win, Barys moved up to fourth in the East, while Spartak sits sixth in the West.
The KHL regular season, which began on September 5, runs through March 20, 2027. Each of the 22 teams will play 68 games. At the end of the regular season, eight teams from each conference qualify for the playoffs.
After a five-day break, Barys will play three games in Astana, followed by nine straight on the road.