Welcome. Game starts at 14:00.

Welcome to live-coverage of Barys Astana vs Medvescak Zagreb game. Two non-Russian teams meet in Kazakhstan with slightly different starting positions. namely, Barys is in hunt for Nr1 spot on Eastern Conference standings and each game counts almost double for them. Medvescak on the other hand continues to surprise with good performances. They are currently at 7th place on Western Conference standings not far from 6th CSKA and 5th Donbass, but are not safe for playoff spot yet neither. Team from Yaroslavl is trailing four points only on 8th place. So far place nine Atlant is on safe distance, but guests from Croatia sure don't want to get into losing streak. Medvescak's last game was SO loss against Avangard on the road. Prior to that they beat Spartak on another road game. Barys also won against Spartak two days ago in Astana and beat Ak Bars on the road prior to that – that indicates they are in good form and some tough job is in front of Medvescak's players if they are about to get a good result in Astana today.

No shots have been made so far, but Medvescak spent opening moments mostly inside home zone. Interesting start.

First true Barys attempts to endanger Barry Brust finish with eventual defensive actions by guests

Cam Barker fires from distance, Barry Brust deflects first dangerous shot of the game

Mike Lundin shoots from blue line, Brust stops another puck

Martinovic fires from blue line on left side, Ahonen stops puck for Barys

Another distance shot comes from blue line by Roman Savchenko, Brust stops another puck

Barys players shoot from inbetween faceoff circles, Brust deflects puck with ease

Nice hockey goes from end to end with almost no breaks. Barys is looking better now.

Savchenko fires from blue line on right side, Brust goes down on his knees and stops the puck

Savchenko fires another big shot from distance, Brust deflects

Visiting team at full strength.

Fyodor Polishchuk shoots from close distance, brust deflects another puck

Puck bounces in front of Brust and several palyers try either to clear or push it into the net, but guests defense eventually clear the situation

Visiting team at full strength.

Cam Barker (Barys) gets 2 min. penalty for tripping

Two attempts to organize pressure for medvescak were already denied by home team, powerplay continues

Home team at full strength.

Teams are exchanging in creating pressure – in recent minutes Medvescak is again the more active side. However, Brays is threatening on fast breakaways

One minute left in first period

Cam Barker shoots from distance, Brusts stops first puck of second period

Jonathan Cheechoo shots backhanded, Ahonen stops and covers puck

Boyd Kane founds himself in chance. backhanded shot gets deflected by Ahonen

Mikhail Rakhmanov shoots from inbetwen faceoff circles, Barry Brust deflects puck into corner

Dmitry Upper shoots from right side, Brust deflects another puck

Matt Ellison trie to beat Ahonen on close post but gets knocked down by home defensemen

Barry Brust blocks several consecutive shots from close distance bofore his defensemen clear the situation in front of him

Charles Linglet shoots from right faceoff circle, Ahonen remains unbetaen by deflecting dangerous puck

Nigel Dawes shoots from left side, Brust deflects puck easily

Brandon Bochenski fires from inbetween faeoff circles only to hit Barry Brust in his chest. Brust stops puck and play is stopped.

Mike Iggulden fires from left side, Ahonen saves and stops puck

Matt Ellison fires from left side, Ahonen deflects

Alexei Litvinenko fires from top of left faceoff circle, Brust stops puck

Jonathan Cheechoo fails to beat Ahonen on one-on-one situation

One minute left in second period

Ari Ahonen robs Charles Linglet on the right side – what a great reaction

Cheechoo gets puck in front of Ahonen and tries to send it in with low shot; Ahonen saves his goal and some pushing occurs. No penalties are given.

Kristian Kudroc shoots from left side, Brust saves

Konstantin Romanov fires, Brust saves

Nigel Dawes fires, Brust deflects puck into corner

Mike Lundin shoots from blue line on right side, Brust deflects yet another puck

As expected, Barys is more agressive team ever since they allowed guests to tkae the lead. However, fast breakaways by Medvescak can be dangerous

Konstantin Rudenko fires for Barys, brust makes another save

Matt Murley fires from left faceoff circle, Ahonen saves

Pressure by Barys continues, play goes on mostly inside Madvescak's defensive zone in recent minutes

Brust gets few moments to take a deep breath as his colleagues went on the other side holding puck in posession

Andrew Murray fires from right side, Ahonen saves his team

Home team at full strength.

Hugh Jessiman shoots from top of right faceoff circle, Ahonen deflects puck

Two minutes left in third period