Finally Vehanen catches the puck and holds it for a faceoff in the Lev zone.

Bochenski tries to cut in on goal but he's wrapped up and stripped of the puck.

Rudenko's shot goes wide, then off the glass and up into the netting. Faceoff outside the Lev blueline.

Jaakola with a wrister that goes just high through a crowd.

Puck goes out of play in the Barys zone, faceoff inside.

Novotny fires a shot high and wide.

Jakub Klepis takes a long shot that Yeremeyev stops and covers.

Offside Lev.

Battle for the puck along the boards and play is stopped for a hand pass call against Lev.

Vehanen is returning to the ice as the faceoff is outside the blueline, but he's far out and will return once they get the puck in deep.

Barys ices the puck right off the draw, goes wide of the empty net. Faceoff comes back down in their zone.

Shot attempt from Nakladal at the boards hits a stick and pops up into the air and is caught and held by Vitali Yeremeyev.

Pacovsky circles the net and feeds Nemec, his slapper hits Yeremeyev and goes to the corner.

Barys rushes up ice and a big slapper from Konstantin Rudenko hits Vehanen in the chest. Play continues.

Shot attempt by Klepis is deflected out of play. Another faceoff in the Barys zone.

Another icing call against Barys. Lev starting to get pressure but not getting shots on goal.

Icing Barys.

Offside Lev. They're having a difficult time getting things going now, as Barys is playing really strong defence.

Icing Barys.

Rudenko drives to the net with the puck but Vehanen makes another nice pad save.

Icing Lev.

Wrister from Oystrick, blocker save Yeremeyev.

Boyd won the draw but they couldn't keep the puck in at the point and Barys is called for offside.

Dustin Boyd with a wrister, caught and held by Vehanen.

Lev's top line goes on a rush and drive hard to the net, dislodging it. Not sure exactly which player, but the faceoff outside.

Now Zhailaunov, the goal scorer, with a drive and another pad save by Vehanen.

Upper's shot from the boards deflected by Pushkaryov in front, pad save Vehanen.

Barys back at at full strength and Vehanen covers it. Nemec trying to walk off his leg injury at the bench.

Barys shorthanded rush, Starshenko's shot is blocked by Nemec, and he goes to the bench in considerable pain.

Another shot by Oystrick, this time a slapper but it goes wide. Then the puck goes out of play and the faceoff is in the Barys zone with :58 left in the penalty.

Low point shot from Oystrick, pad save Yeremeyev.

Maxim Semyonov called for tripping on front of his own net. Lev to the power play again, they're 0/4.

A high hit by Konstantin Rudenko knocks off Justin Azevedo's helmet, and he wisely skates directly to the bench to avoid a penalty. Lev helmets coming off easily today.

Petri Vehanen makes the save and covers just after his team gets back to full strength.

Barys now at full strength and they go to the abbreviated power play.

Offside Lev with 1:21 left in the power play.

Mikko Maenpaa tries a high wrister, but it gets knocked down and then iced.

Weak wrister from Novotny, who was being double-teamed, and it's easily handled by Yeremeyev.

Shot from Upper is deflected and might've gone into the upper deck if not for the netting. Faceoff in the Lev zone.

We've got more action in front of Yeremeyev but the play is stopped for a hand pass against Lev, faceoff outside.

Repik with a high wrister from the boards, blocker save Yeremeyev.

A couple of attempts from Michal Birner, first he spun around and fired wide in the dying seconds of the penalty, then later his shot from close in is stopped by Yeremeyev. Barys now back at full strength.

Now a big slapper from Sevc that hits Yeremeyev up high and goes over the glass with just :13 left in the penalty. Faceoff inside.

Sevc with a wrister from the point, I don't think it got through to Yeremeyev.

Oystrick across to Maenpaa, who tees up a big slapper that hits Yeremeyev in the chest. He holds on for a faceoff with 1:14 left in the penalty.

Nik Antropov tries to go high on a Barys rush but Vehanen knocks it down with his arm.

Mikko Maenpaa with a shot from the boards, Yeremeyev stops and covers.

Dustin Boyd fires a slapper from the high slot, pad save Vehanen and he covers it.

Clearing attempt by Litvinenko took a strange bounce off of Pacovsky's stick and went right to Yeremeyev, who had to react quickly to the unexpected play.

Offside Lev.

Michal Repik fires a wrister on a Lev rush, tried to pick the near corner but Yeremeyev made a nice glove save and hangs on.

Another scramble in front of Vehanen, he covers it again and we have some pushing and shoving after the whistle. No penalties will result.

Litvinenko shot from the point and missed the net. Rakhmanov tried to play the carom off the end boards but Vehanen gave him no room on the near post and froze it.

The puck is now deflected out of play at the Barys blueline. The faceoff is at the dot just outside the line.

Puck out of play in the Barys zone, faceoff inside.

Dustin Boyd hammers Jakub Nakladal along the boards, knocking him into the referee.

Icing Lev.

Upper feeds Cam Barker on a rush but Nemec makes a nice sliding play to block the shot.

Barys back at full strength, play in the neutral zone.

Maenpaa from the point hits Yeremeyev in the chest, and he stops two more rebounds after.

Nemec with a looping shot from the point, Yeremeyev catches it and holds on with 1:15 left in the penalty.

Hand pass Lev in the attacking zone to start the period, faceoff outside the Barys line.

Bochenski grabs a rebound in front and fires, blocker save Vehanen.

Now Barys clears the puck off the glass and out of play, so no penalty but the faceoff stays inside.

Icing Barys.

Litvinenko takes a shot from the point that's blocked in the crowd in front, then Lev clears.

Yeremeyev makes another save and finally Barys clears the zone.

One-time slapper from Azevedo from the top of the circle, Yeremeyev makes a pad save while Klepis pesters him in front.

Lukas Cingel shoots but it's deflected out of play in the Barys zone. Cingel was in a pretty fierce stick battle with Cam Barker earlier on that shift.

Offside Lev.

Dangerous chance for Barys as Vehanen tried to play the puck behind the net and centred it out front, but nobody home with the net vacant.

The puck slides to Vehanen, who covers for a faceoff in the Lev zone.

Just as the penalty ends, Justin Azevedo is knocked down by Nik Antropov inside the Barys blueline. Play continues as he gets up slowly.

Nathan Oystrick with a couple of shots from the point for Lev in the first half of the power play, now both units change up.

O'Byrne comes out of the box, picks up the puck and dumps it in the Barys zone and goes for a change with the rest of the team.

Starchenko with a wrister from the point, stick save Vehanen and Lev ice it.

Barys with good possession around the outside, Barker shoots from the point but Vehanen stops and covers with 1:11 left in the power play.

Maxim Semyonov lets a slapper rip from the point. There was traffic in front of Vehanen but he took it off the shoulder and it winds up in the corner.

Alexei Litvinenko gets a couple of shots, Vehanen made a stick save on the first one but he came in to get his own rebound. Vehanen covered the second.

Pushkaryov attempts a shot for Barys but it hits a Lev stick and goes over the glass. Faceoff inside.

Ondrej Nemec with a low wrister from the point, deflected to the corner.

Brandon Bochenski, Barys' leading scorer, lead a rush down the left wing. He had Nigel Dawes with him but elected to shoot, right on Vehanen, who holds it.

Puck out of play again in the Barys zone, faceoff again inside.

Lev line of Repik-Vrana-Birner test Vitali Yeremeyev with a couple of shots, and then the puck is deflected out of play. Faceoff inside.

A bit of a pile-up in the Lev crease as some players fell on top of Petri Vehanen with the puck loose, but nobody gets to it and it's cleared.

After a moment of silence for the victims of the recent Kazan air disaster, we had the national anthems of Kazakhstan and the Czech Republic. They are now complete and the game will start soon.

Lev Praha is wearing their home red uniforms with blue and white trim, red NY Rangers-style pants and blue helmets. Barys Astana is wearing road white uniforms with two-tone blue and gold trim.

Starting Lineups:

Lev Praha: Vehanen (Lukáš) – Ševc, Mäenpäa, Oystrick, Němec, Jaakola, O'Byrne, Humphries, Nakládal – Azevedo, Novotný, Klepiš – Sekáč, Zackrisson, Thörnberg – Birner, Vrána, Řepík – Ridderwall, Cingel, Pacovský.

Barys Astana: Yeremeyev (Poluetkov) – Litvinenko, Savchenko, Blokhin, Semyonov, Barker, Lundin, Grebenschikov – Rudenko, Antropov, Starchenko – Zhailaunov, Upper, Pushkaryov – Dawes, Boyd, Bochenski – Rakhmanov, Polishchuk, Gavrilin.

Referees: Gashilov, Shchenyov – Gordenko, Tomilov.

Lev Praha won five games in a row twice last season -- once in the first month and once in the last, which helped them vault into a Western Conference playoff position. On Tuesday, the will be looking to do it for a third time. However, the first four teams they´ve beaten on the streak are all outside of the playoff picture or on the bubble. Barys Astana is another story, however. The Kazakh side has 56 points in 26 games and is 2nd in the Eastern Conference, just a point behind leader Ak Bars Kazan. They´re coming off a 6-2 spanking of Slovan in Bratislava on Sunday.

Ari Ahonen and Vitali Yeremayev have platooned in goal and both done well, putting up comparable numbers. It will be Yerejeyev starting on Tuesday -- he had a fantastic outing here in Prague last year.

The leading scorer so far is ex-NHLer Brandon Bochenski, now in his fourth year with Barys, who has 23 points in 26 games. The international roster has contributions from many different countries, with other top forwards being Talgat Zailauov, Nigel Dawes, Dustin Boyd, Roman Starchenko, Nikolai Antropov and Dmitri Upper. On defence, the top scorer is another former NHLer and a University of Maine grad, Mike Lundin with 11 points. Roman Shavchenko is also dangerous from the point with 4 power-play goals. Another ex-NHLer in the lineup is Cam Barker, a recent acquisition who will be playing just his fourth game and is still looking for his first KHL point.

To make matters more difficult for Lev, they´ve never beaten Barys, who won both of last year´s meetings. In fact, in their first meeting in Prague on September 22, Barys ended Lev´s first five-game winning streak with a 4-2 victory, despite a 44-26 shots advantage for Lev. On January 10, Barys´ 5-1 victory on home ice was the middle game of a five-game losing streak for Lev.

In the first three games of this home stand, the Lions have won once in overtime, once late in regulation time, and once in a shootout, so they´ve had a flare for the dramatic lately. The heroes the past three games have been Martn Ševc, Nathan Oystrick and Jakub Klepiš, so it remains to be seen who will step up into the role on Tuesday. After a game off on Sunday, Petri Vehanen returns to the Lev net. Otherwise, the lineup will be exactly the same, right down to the starting line combinations.

Welcome. Game starts at 19:00.