Barys - Shanghai Dragons: betting tip (cf 1.98) and bets on the KHL match

Current form

This will be the first meeting of the rivals in the current season of the Kontinental Hockey League. After 58 matches, the team from Kazakhstan occupies the penultimate place in the Eastern Conference with 45 points. The distance to Novosibirsk Siberia, which is running eighth, is 11 points, and Mikhail Kravets's guys need truly super efforts to take advantage of the last chances to get involved in the dispute over the vacancy from the East entering the playoffs. But to do this, it is absolutely contraindicated to lose points, especially in matches with equal opponents. So far, there is no serious reason to say that the team is ready to solve this problem. In the current calendar year, the Badgers have lost 13 out of 16 matches, and in four of them they failed to score a single goal. In the last three home games, they were able to defeat Lada (5:3), but got holes from SKA (0:5) and Metallurg.

The hosts had a good match with the championship leader, but they did not use several advantageous moments and lost outside of regular time. Barys forwards Riley Walsh and Tyce Thompson scored a comeback for the Leopards after the score was 0:2 and shortly before the end of the third period they equalized the numbers on the scoreboard, but overtime lasted only 47 seconds – Derek Barak's throw after a quick counterattack tipped the scales in favor of Magnitogorsk (2:3, OT), and the hosts settled for one point. The second meeting of Barys and the Dragons from Shanghai is scheduled for March 7. It will be held in St. Petersburg.

Disqualifications and injuries

Ansar Shaikhmeddenov will not participate in the match due to injury.

Interesting betting trends

• Barys performs an average of 12 power moves per match.
• According to statistics, Astana players make 30 shots on target.

Current form

Having scored only 10 points in 18 matches in the current calendar year, the Chinese-flagged team has called into question its cup prospects in the 2025-2026 season. So far, the fire–breathing lizards are ninth in the Western Conference, but the gap from Spartak, which closes the top eight, is very impressive - 15 points. There are 11 matches left until the end of the regular season, and it will be very difficult to eliminate such a gap. The team misses a lot (only Lada and Sochi have the worst defense in the league), another problem is the poor implementation of the created chances. Dragons are active in the attack, making an average of 31 shots at the opponents' goal per match, but their effectiveness is only 6.6% (although this figure is even lower for Barys – 5.3%).

All six February matches were lost by the Dragons, although in the last two – on February 15 at home against CSKA and on February 18 away against Torpedo - the team fought selflessly and earned one point each. The ending of the game in Nizhny Novgorod turned out to be especially dramatic. Gage Quinney's shot 6 seconds before the end of the third period sent the game into overtime (3-3), where Vladimir Tkachev set the winning point in the game, ensuring the Torpedo team a pass to the playoffs.

Disqualifications and injuries

Jeremy Grolo, Andrey Kareev, Patrick Ribar, Kirill Rasskazov and Ben Harpur will not play in Astana.

Interesting betting trends

• On average, Shanghai gets 8.96 minutes of penalty time per match.
• According to statistics, the Chinese make 29 shots on target.