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There were just two games on Sunday’s KHL card, and both ended in victories for Eastern Conference powerhouses. Ak Bars snapped a two-game losing streak with a 5-1 thrashing of Amur. Meanwhile, Avangard ended a four-game skid with an OT success at Kunlun Red Star.

Kunlun Red Star faces Avangard, while Ak Bars hosts Amur.

The Nizhny Novgorod side will face HC Sochi today as it can reach five straight wins. Six matches are on tap on an exciting KHL Saturday.

All three KHL games ended with a shut-out on Friday. First, Metallurg regained its share of top spot in the overall standings, snapping a three-game skid with a 1-0 squeaker at Salavat Yulaev. Magnitka moves to 19 points, level with Western Conference leader Torpedo. Dynamo closed on the Western summit with an emphatic victory over Avangard. Four power play goals helped Alexei Kudashov’s men to a 6-0 victory. And there was a third shut-out of the day in Mytishchi, where Amur blanked Kunlun Red Star to avenge a shoot-out loss in its home opener 10 days earlier.

Three games are on tap on a light KHL matchday on Friday.

CSKA racked up a big win over in-form Sochi, offering hope that the defending champion is putting a stuttering start to the season behind it. This season’s leader, Torpedo, consolidated its position with an OT win against Ak Bars. There were goals in Cherepovets, where Spartak beat Severstal 5-3, but fans in Balashikha endured the exact opposite as Vityaz and Lada went scoreless through 60 minutes before Vladimir Galuzin won it for the host. In Thursday’s opening action, Barys rallied from 0-2, with Riley Barber continuing his hot streak, but lost in a shoot-out to Admiral.

The Black Sea franchise is riding high on a hot streak, but tonight the team will face a formidable opponent.

Kunlun Red Star denied Metallurg the chance to move clear at the top of the KHL standings. The Dragons recovered from 0-2 to grab a shoot-out win over Magnitka, which moves to 17 points alongside Torpedo. Two other teams also clawed back two-goal deficits, but neither Traktor nor Amur could finish the job against Salavat Yulaev and Neftekhimik respectively. Early in the day, SKA reeled off a fourth successive victory with a 3-0 success at Sibir. Lokomotiv enjoyed a 3-1 success over Avtomobilist.

Five games are on tap today, with three matches in the East and two in the West, including a hot clash between Sibir and SKA.

Torpedo’s 4-1 win at Vityaz puts Igor Larionov’s team on top of the KHL standings. Among its pursuers, surprise package HC Sochi recorded a sixth successive victory with a 3-2 verdict over Spartak. We saw the same scoreline in Minsk, where Dinamo edged Ak Bars to make it two wins in three. CSKA’s problems continue: the defending champion was unable to build on its road win at Lokomotiv and went down 1-2 against Severstal.

Four games are on tap tonight – all in the Western Conference.

Monday’s big game saw Lokomotiv beat Metallurg 4-1, with the home team scoring three goals from three shots in the third period to seal the verdict. Dynamo, the other conference leader, also suffered defeat, going down 2-3 at Sibir. There were goals aplenty in Nizhnekamsk, where Pontus Aberg had a hat-trick as Barys won 6-5 in overtime. SKA relied on its depth to edge Admiral and make it three wins in a row, while Traktor edged an overtime win at Lada thanks to Zac Fucale’s first KHL shut-out.

Twelve teams hit the ice with several high-placed sides facing each other.

The second Green derby of the season saw Salavat Yulaev produce another fightback against Ak Bars. This time, though, it was not enough to turn the game around as Kazan got revenge for its defeat 10 days earlier. In Sunday’s other game, Dinamo Minsk also produced an unsuccessful fightback. The Bison came from 0-3 to tie Torpedo at 3-3 – but only for eight seconds before Daniil Bokun restored the visitor’s lead.

Two matches are on tap tonight, with Salavat and Ak Bars facing again, and Dinamo Minsk welcoming Torpedo in a high-octane game in the Belarusian capital.

SKA started a busy Saturday of KHL action with a 4-0 win at Amur, a game notable for Alex Galchenyuk potting his first two goals for his new club. He wasn’t the only man to score twice: Shane Prince helped Spartak to victory over Traktor, while Riley Barber and Maxim Karpov finished on the losing side at Sibir and Severstal respectively. Karpov was especially unfortunate: he tied the game for Metallurg in the 58th minute, but Severstal claimed a shoot-out win despite trailing 0-3 after six minutes. Elsewhere, CSKA got a hard-fought win at Lokomotiv, Lada moves to second in the East after thrashing Kunlun, and Dynamo stays top of the West thanks to a 5-4 verdict at Admiral.

Magnitka faces Severstal in an eight-game, action-packed KHL matchday!

Avtomobilist ended a three-game skid with a hard-fought 1-0 victory at Salavat Yulaev. Dinamo snapped a longer unsuccessful run, edging a 3-2 verdict at home to Vityaz to record a first win in six. Vityaz remains rooted to the foot of the standings after seven straight losses.

Two games are on tap tonight with one showdown in each conference.

CSKA lost in Togliatti for the first time since 2009, going down 1-3 to a Lada team that could be the most impressive we’ve seen in the KHL era. In the day’s early action, Dynamo Moscow won in Khabarovsk to return to the Western Conference summit while Admiral won its home opener against Kunlun Red Star. Sibir celebrated a first regulation-time win at its new arena, edging past Avangard amid a flurry of late goals. It was a similar story for Sochi, who overturned a 2-3 deficit in the last 10 minutes to beat Traktor. Spartak’s Nikolai Goldobin had five assists in a 6-3 win over Barys.

Six games are on tap on an action-packed KHL Thursday.

After five successive losses, SKA got back on track with victory at home to Severstal. However, Dinamo Minsk slipped to its fifth loss in a row at home to Lokomotiv. And Vityaz is even worse off, losing six in a row as Torpedo returned to the top of the Western conference. KHL leader Metallurg kept up its good start to the season with a shoot-out verdict against Avtomobilist, while Salavat Yulaev blew a 2-0 lead before defeating Neftekhimik 4-2.

Five games are on tap today with plenty of exciting action on a jam-packed KHL Wednesday!

Amur played its first home game of the season after a long – and not unsuccessful – road trip to begin the campaign. The Tigers after back-to-back wins at Avangard (5-1) and Sibir (2-1, SO) to face a Kunlun team that briefly led the KHL standings but slipped back on a run of three straight losses.

Just one game is on tap today, with the action taking part in the Far East.

There’s a new leader in the West, as Dynamo defeated Spartak with Yegor Petukhov bagging a lacrosse goal in the closing stages. That moves the Blue-and-Whites clear of Torpedo, which lost in overtime at Salavat Yulaev. In the East, Metallurg consolidated its position on top of the overall standings with a 4-2 win over Avtomobilist before Dmitrij Jaskin’s hat-trick saw Ak Bars edge past Vityaz in OT. The highest-scoring performance of the day – and the season so far – came in Astana, where Barys scored eight on Neftekhimik. There were also plenty of goals in Sochi as the Leopards edged Severstal to make it four successive wins.

Sixteen teams hit the ice on a busy KHL Monday.

Neither SKA nor Sibir came into this game in good form. The home team had lost four in a row after winning its first two games of the season. The visitor, meanwhile, won its home opener on Sep. 7 but was defeated in its next three outings. Both teams, therefore, needed boost in Sunday’s solitary game.

Only one game on tap tonight, with SKA hosting Sibir.

High-flying Torpedo saw a five-game winning streak come to an end after Ak Bars rallied from 0-2 to win in Kazan. Barys, meanwhile, celebrated its first win of the season, ending a five-game skid. Avangard and Lokomotiv enjoyed comfortable wins over Neftekhimik and KRS respectively, before CSKA came from behind to win a thrilling derby in overtime.

Sixteen teams hit the ice tonight on a packed KHL Saturday.

Both Friday’s games brought together teams in contrasting form. And both games following that formbook. Dynamo Moscow went to Petersburg and won a fourth successive game, handing SKA a fourth loss. Meanwhile, Sochi recorded a third straight win over Sibir, which has now lost its last three.

The St. Petersburg franchise lost its previous three games and is looking for a return to victory as Dynamo Moscow comes to town.

A 2-0 lead is notoriously tricky, and so it proved today. Ak Bars blew that scoreline in Ufa to lose 3-2, while Torpedo recovered a two-goal deficit to beat Red Star 5-2. Lada came close to matching those feats, but after getting to 2-2 at Metallurg it lost in overtime. Avangard also saw a 2-0 advantage disappear, and had to recover in the final minutes before defeating Admiral 4-3. There were no such problems for Spartak, comfortable winners at Vityaz, nor Avtomobilist at home to Neftekhimik. Traktor withstood a Dinamo Minsk fightback to win 3-2.

It’s the first Green Derby of the season today, with Ak Bars travelling to Ufa in an action-packed matchday.

Dynamo Moscow added to CSKA’s sluggish start to the season, winning 4-1 at the defending champion thanks to two goals from Dmitry Rashevsky and three points for Nikita Gusev. Matvei Michkov’s new loan spell at Sochi began with two assists in an entertaining OT win at Severstal. And the day’s third game also finished in a road win as Amur edged Sibir in a shoot-out.

Three games are on tap today, with the action starting in Novosibirsk.

SKA played its home opener looking to bounce back after back-to-back losses on the road. Instead, it suffered a shut-out loss to a Spartak team that allowed 17 goals in its first four games. The Red-and-Whites move to within two points of the early leaders in the Western Conference, while Torpedo’s 3-1 win over Admiral pushes it ahead of Kunlun, beaten 1-2 at Lokomotiv. In the East, Ak Bars needed overtime to defeat Dinamo Minsk while Lada got a revenge win at Traktor.

Five games are on tap today, with the Dragons and Torpedo trying to stretch their winning streak!