Ertis Pavlodar

Beybarys win game #5 of the finals

Latvian forward Vitalijs Pavlovs was the key player in Beybarys Atyrau capital 4-1 victory against Ertis Pavlodar in Kazakhstan League Finals. With league top scorer Mikhail Panshin runs short, the former Metalurgs Liepaja was decisive with one goals and two assists. Now Beybarys leads the series 3-2 and have the first match-point next Thursday in Pavlodar

Ertis Pavlodar joins Beybarys in Kazakhstan League finals

Ertis completes today an amazing comeback winning 3-0 game six of semifinals against Sary Arka Karaganda, closing the series 4-2 (recovering from 0-2) and reaching Kazakhstan League finals for the first time in its history. Ertis decided game in the first period, scoring two goals - with Vadim Rifel and Ilya Solarev - in less then two minutes.
Team from North Kazakhstan will face current champion Beybarys Atyrau, having swept Arystan Temirtau in four games, without two key players: captain Evgeny Ushkov and Andrei Troshchinsky, both injured. Game #1 of the finals will be on April 13

Playoffs semifinals started in Kazakhstan

Champion Beybarys suffers but get an important victory 3-2 against Arystan Temirtau in Kazakhstan League playoffs semifinals game one. Andrei Zakharov scored decisive goal at 51:12. Arystan, the underdog team in these semifinals, showed it can be competitive in the series.
The most battled series between Sary Arka and Ertis Pavlodar keeps he expectations: Ertis was 1-3 until 57 minutes but Sary Arka managed to equal game and after 17 minutes of overtime Slovak forward Tomas Jasko scored the 4-3 winning goal giving Sary Arka the third victory of the season in the seven matches played between the two teams.

5th consecutive shutout

Dmitri Malgin, goalie of Ertis-Pavlodar in the Kazakhstan league, earned his fifth shutout in a row yesterday. Between October 13 and 25 he played 5 league games without allowing one single goal.