Hello, I’m Ben and I’m here to recap the hockey game between Metallurg and Barys.

The match played between Metallurg Hockey Club and Barys Hockey Club was game 5 of the first round of the KHL playoffs! The KHL is basically like the NHL but in Russia and Kazakhstan.

Puck drop was at 6 AM PT so I had to wake up fairly early to watch my favourite team, Metallurg Magnitogorsk play, but that’s not the worst. Lots of Metallurg’s games are played at 1 AM and 3 Am but I still stay up to watch them.

So now to the game. Magnitogorsk was the 3rd seed in the conference so they matched up against Barys, the 6th place team so I thought we would have beat them easily, especially after a dominant 7-4 game 1 win. But after that they just didn’t look as sharp, they haven’t been playing that bad but Barys just looked like they wanted it more so my confidence going into yesterdays game was not high, and the fact that we were coming off a disappointing 4-2 game 4 lose didn’t help. But the game still had to go on. 6 o’clock comes around and the puck drops and 2 minutes in captain Sergei Mozyakin got Magnitogorsk on the board giving them an early 1-0 lead. Magnitogorsk was buzzing after the good start and were putting the pressure on. Not to long after, Nikolai Prokhorkin pushed the lead up to 2-0. Metallurg was playing amazing. The period ends with the good guys up 2-0.

The second period also had a strong start with Magnitogorsk getting a lot of shots and hit the post on one of the but couldn’t put the puck in the net. I was getting hungry at this point so I went to grab some cereal and I come back to it being 3-1 Magnitogorsk. Since I didn’t see those goals I can’t really say if they were good or what even happened on the play. Now right as I’m settling back into my seat Canadian Taylor Beck fires a puck past the Barys goalie making it 4-1 for the good guys!! Then a minute later a shot from the top of the circles takes a few bounces and makes it 5-1 for Metallurg!!! Barys made a goalie change after this.

Not much happened in the 3rd so Magnitogorsk gets a big 5-1 win putting them up 3-2 in the series giving them a chance to move on to the next round on Friday at 5:30 AM in Nur Sultan!

I think that was a great game and a huge confidence builder for the team after a few poor games. I think they have a great chance to end the series on Friday!

thank you for reading and go Metallurg!!!!