Barys vs Lada on February 14: history of meetings and forecast for the match

The hockey clubs Barys and Lada will play in the regular season of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) on Saturday, February 14. The match will take place on the ice of the Barys Arena in Astana (Kazakhstan). It starts at 15:00 Moscow time. The pre—match layouts, the history of the confrontation and the forecasts of experts are in the Izvestia material.

The history of team meetings and the results of previous games

The first meeting of the rivals this season took place on January 20 in Tolyatti — then Lada turned out to be stronger, the meeting ended with a score of 2:0. In total, Barys won 14 of 21 face-to-face meetings with Lada in the history of the KHL. However, Lada won 7 out of 10 away matches against Barys.

Barys will play the second of the five games of the current home series, and Tolyatti residents will close the two-legged trip. Two days earlier, the team from Kazakhstan suffered a crushing defeat from SKA. The game ended with a score of 0:5. This defeat was the fourth in the last five meetings. With 42 points, the hosts remain second to last in the Eastern Conference.

Avtozavodtsy are penultimate in the West, having the same number of points scored with HC Sochi (39) with three games in reserve for the Southerners. Pavel Desyatkov's team went to the capital of Kazakhstan from Novosibirsk, where they failed to maintain an advantage in the confrontation with the local "Siberia". The match ended in overtime with a score of 2:3. In case of defeat by Barys during the regular season, the guests will lose their chances of reaching the playoffs this season.

Barys and Tolyatti Lada continue to experience serious problems in the KHL regular season. Both clubs have gained a foothold on the tenth lines in their conferences, demonstrating a protracted series of defeats and poor performance.

In the last 19 matches, the team suffered 16 defeats. Recently, Barys lost twice to Amur, but managed to beat Admiral once with a score of 4:1. At the same time, returning to home ice after matches in the Far East turned into a painful defeat from St. Petersburg SKA with a score of 0:5.

The recession began in December, and in January-February it turned into a deep crisis. Against this background, only goalkeeper Adam Shila stands out, reflecting more than 92% of shots. However, Barys' attack is clearly lame: in 2026, the team has already left the ice three times without scoring goals.

The Tolyatti club occupies the tenth position in the Western Conference. After 56 games, the team has 39 points. It is only due to additional indicators that it is ahead of Sochi, which closes the table. February started unsuccessfully for Oleg Bratash's wards. The home series brought defeats from Magnitogorsk Metallurg and Minsk Dynamo. Despite the recent success in the game against Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod, the general trend remains negative: in the last seven matches, Tolyatti players have recorded six defeats.

Lada, in turn, closes the top three anti-leaders of the West with 39 points after 56 matches, ahead only of Sochi. In the last seven meetings, Tolyatti lost in six. The team's defense is the second worst in the league (196 goals conceded, an average of 3.5 per game). Offensively, it's just as sad as their opponent today. The club has few scoring chances at the opponent's goal. The recent 3-1 victory over Torpedo was made possible only by the fact that all the pucks flew in in the third period, and goalkeeper Ivan Bocharov blocked 96% of shots. Systemically, Lada still looks unbalanced and heavy.

Player injuries

Barys today announced the injury to striker Ansar Shaikhmeddenov, which he sustained in the match against SKA. The 23-year-old Kazakhstani will miss at least the remaining four matches of his team's current home series. Nikita Mikhailov, who has a lower body injury, and Dmitry Gurkovsky, who is recovering from a knee injury, are also on the injured bench at Barys, while Nikita Gromov's participation status will be determined an hour before kickoff.

Dmitry Voronkov is missing from Lada due to a back injury and Alexander Suvorov with a shoulder injury, as well as the questionable participation of Artyom Lukin, who is recovering from a slight thigh strain. On February 12, Lada forward Andrey Chivilev suffered a cut in a match against Siberia. The player immediately went to the podium. However, the team did not inform the strikers about missing the next matches.

Forecast for the match

Barys has been showing vulnerability in defense for a long period of the championship, but it retains the ability to score. Lada is notable for its stable implementation of moments and has a psychological advantage in personal meetings with the Kazakh club. Both teams regularly concede, which creates the prerequisites for an effective confrontation with the exchange of goals throughout all periods.

Despite three defeats in away matches, the statistics of personal meetings give reason to expect a competitive struggle with an advantage in the attacking actions of the hosts. At the same time, the high risk of missing your own goal will remain throughout the game. Open hockey is expected, in which teams will attack a lot, exposing the rear.

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