Barys hockey club from Astana won 1-0 against local Sibir in Novosibirsk, a football score. Mikhail Kravets' charges began a nine-game road series with this victory. The capital club's home arena is preparing to host the World Wrestling Championships. Hockey has therefore taken a back seat. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Kursiv Media.
At the start of the season, the teams managed to play two matches. Both were at Barys Arena during its "pre-wrestling" period. In the first game, the hosts won 7-1; in the second, the visitors took revenge 3-2.
🏒 SIBIR (Novosibirsk, Russia) – BARYS (Astana, Kazakhstan) 0:1 (0:0, 0:0, 0:1)
The match in Novosibirsk was full of video reviews of controversial episodes. In the 15th minute, referee Sergey Morozov, after reviewing the video, disallowed a Barys goal. At the end of the match, in the 59th minute, his colleague Anton Gofman, having reviewed the video materials, did not count a Sibir goal.
In between these events, Alexey Arkhipov counted a goal by Mason Morelli, who redirected the puck into the net after a shot by Logan Day.
The tally against Anton Krasotkin remained the only one. Our goalkeeper Andrey Shutov kept a clean sheet for the second time in KHL 2026/27. The first shutout was in Yaroslavl (5:0).
Having secured their tenth win of the regular season, Barys moved up to second place in the Eastern Conference.
The KHL regular season, which started on September 5, will last until March 20, 2027. Each of the 22 teams will play 68 games. Based on the regular season results, 8 teams from each conference earn the right to participate in the playoffs.
Barys, temporarily deprived of its home arena, will have to play eight more consecutive road matches.