Neftekhimik – Avangard, Avtomobilist – Ak Bars: review and broadcast of KHL matches on November 14

On Saturday, November 14, the regular season of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) will feature meetings between Nizhnekamsk Neftekhimik and Omsk Avangard, as well as Yekaterinburg Avtomobilist and Kazan Ak Bars. The first match will take place at the Neftekhim Arena in Nizhnekamsk at 14:00, the second at the UMMC Arena in Yekaterinburg at 14:30. The start time of the matches is Moscow time.

Neftekhimik – Avangard: face-to-face meetings

Neftekhimik and Avangard have held two meetings in the current regular season, exchanging victories. The first match took place on October 8 in Nizhnekamsk and ended with a score of 1-0 in favor of Omsk. Defenseman Mikhail Gulyaev scored the only goal in the 12th minute, assisted by Andrew Poturalski and Josh Livo.

The second meeting took place on October 22 in Omsk and ended with a 3-2 victory for Neftekhimik. The hosts took the lead twice thanks to goals from Vasily Ponomarev and Josh Livo, but Nizhnekamsk fought back both times. At the beginning of the third period, Maxim Fedotov equalized, and less than four minutes later, Rafael Bikmullin scored the winning goal. Andrey Belozerov scored another goal for the visitors.

The teams also met in the first round of the Gagarin Cup playoffs in the 2025/26 season. Then Avangard won the series with a score of 4:1. In the fifth match on April 1, Omsk lost eight seconds before the end of regular time, but Nikolai Prokhorkin equalized the score, and then scored a double in overtime. The match ended with a 4-3 victory for Avangard.

In November, Neftekhimik played several home matches. On November 8, Nizhnekamsk lost to Yaroslavl Lokomotiv with a score of 1:5. Two days later, the team beat Ufa's Salavat Yulaev in a shootout — 4:3. Artyom Khoruzhev, Dmitry Sokolov and Evgeny Mityakin scored for the hosts in regular time. Andrey Belozerov scored the winning post-match shot.

On November 7, Avangard won a home victory over Novosibirsk Siberia in overtime with a score of 4:3. However, in the next meeting, on November 10, the Omsk club suffered a dry defeat from Dinamo Minsk — 0:4. The opponent scored all four goals in the third period.

Avtomobilist – Ak Bars: face-to-face meetings

Avtomobilist and Ak Bars had four meetings in the previous regular season. The Yekaterinburg club won three of them, and Kazan won one.

The first match took place on September 10, 2025 in Kazan and ended with the victory of Avtomobilist with a score of 6:3. In the second meeting, on September 29, Yekaterinburg turned out to be stronger again, winning 4-1 on home ice.

In the third match, on January 4, 2026, Ak Bars took revenge, defeating the opponent with a score of 5:0. The final meeting took place on February 27 in Yekaterinburg. Kazan opened the scoring, then conceded two goals, but managed to restore equality. The main and extra time ended with a score of 2:2, and Alexander Sharov brought victory to Avtomobilist in a shootout. The final result is 3:2.

In November, Avtomobilist won a strong-willed victory over Chelyabinsk Tractor. The match on November 8 ended 3-2 in a shootout. Yekaterinburg lost 0:2 after two periods, but in the final twenty minutes Anatoly Golyshev and Alexander Kadeikin restored equality with an interval of 45 seconds. The winning shootout was scored by Artyom Kashtanov.

On November 9, Ak Bars broke a three-game losing streak by beating Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod with a score of 5:2. Stepan Terekhov, Albert Yarullin, Semyon Terekhov, Alexey Byvaltsev and Andrey Stas scored goals for Kazan. By the first break, the hosts were leading 3-1, and in the second period they increased the advantage to three goals.