KAZAN (Interstat) — Maxim Arefyev made 24 saves as Ak Bars Kazan beat Amur Khabarovsk 3-1 in a Kontinental Hockey League game Friday at TatNeft Arena. Attendance was 8,257. Ak Bars improved to 11-11, while Amur dropped to 10-10. Arefyev stopped 24 of 25 shots. Denis Zernov opened the scoring at 4:33 of the first period, with assists from Kirill Semyonov and Mitchell Miller. Grigory Denisenko and Ravil Yakupov scored in the second period, with Miller assisting Denisenko and Andrei Stas assisting Yakupov. Yegor Voronkov scored for Amur at 38:59 of the second, with assists from Vitaly Abramov and Vasily Machulin. Semyonov finished with an assist, two shots, four penalty minutes and one hit. Miller had two assists and five shots. Denisenko added two shots and three hits, Yakupov had three shots and two hits, and Zernov had one shot. Semyonov also was penalized for tripping and hooking. Amur’s Oleg Li was penalized for interference.