16 March 2026

Barys Falls to Admiral Again

In their final home game of the regular season, Barys faced Admiral. The Astana coaching staff returned Batyrlan Muratov to the lineup, while Nikita Boyarkin started in goal.

The hosts could have opened the scoring in just the second shift, but somehow the puck did not cross the goal line behind Ivan Kulbakov after a heavy attack from the second line. Soon after, Tyce Thompson’s line still found success, with Thompson himself sending the puck into the net. The Barys forward extended his point streak to five games and his goal-scoring streak to three.

The visitors responded shortly before the first intermission, when Kyle Olson found the net. Early in the second period, Nikita Yefremov put Admiral ahead.

In the final period, Olson scored again to complete his brace, and Yegor Chezganov added another goal for the visitors. In the 54th minute, Alikhan Asetov reduced the deficit while Barys were playing on the power play with an extra skater. However, the last word belonged to the visitors, as Dmytro Tymashov scored into the empty net.

On March 18, Mikhail Kravets’ team will play Sibir in Novosibirsk.

Barys – Admiral 2:6 (1:1, 0:2, 1:3)

1:0 – 04:40 – Thompson (Muratov, Willman)

1:1 – 16:48 – Olson (Osnovin, Zavgorodniy)

1:2 – 22:21 – Yefremov (Starkov)

1:3 – 28:02 – Soshnikov (Solyannikov, Yefremov)

1:4 – 46:54 – Olson (Osnovin, Zavgorodniy)

1:5 – 52:42 – Chezganov (Shepelev)

2:5 – 53:29 – Asetov (Walsh, Vecchione) PP

2:6 – 59:50 – Tymashov (Usmanov) EN

Goaltenders: Boyarkin – Kulbakov

Barys Arena. 7,964 spectators