- Sibir is coming into this contest having lost six games in a row.
- Amur is coming into this contest having won its last game.
- Sibir is playing the 3rd of five straight home games. Amur is playing the 7th of seven straight road games.
- Sibir forward Alexander Sharov has points in 3 straight games, going 1-2-3 over that span.
Sibir: Samvel Mnatsyan
Amur: Stanislav Katsuba
- Sibir forward Maxim Kazakov is looking to suit up for his 200th career regular season KHL game.
- Barys is coming into this contest coming off a loss.
- Dynamo Moscow is coming into this contest having won its last game.
- Barys is playing the 2nd of three straight home games. Dynamo Moscow is playing the 2nd of five straight road games.
- Barys forward Andre Pettersson has points in 4 straight games, going 4-3-7 over that span.
- Barys forward Nikita Mikhailis has points in 4 straight games, going 3-1-4 over that span.
- Dynamo goalie Alexander Yeryomenko has played 89:08 straight minutes without having allowed a goal against.
- Dynamo forward Vadim Shipachyov has points in 3 straight games, going 0-3-3 over that span.
- Dynamo forward Dmitry Kagarlitsky has points in 4 straight games, going 3-2-5 over that span.
Barys: Jesse Blacker (due back on NOV 27, 2018), Brandon Bochenski
Dynamo Moscow: Maxim Afinogenov, Patrik Zackrisson
- Salavat is coming into this afternoon’s game having won its last contest.
- Admiral is coming into this contest having lost 6 games in a row.
- Salavat is playing the 1st of only one home game before hitting the road. Admiral is playing the 6th of six straight road games.
- Admiral forward Konstantin Glazachev has points in 4 straight games, going 4-1-5 over that span.
Salavat: Nikita Li, Vyacheslav Solodukhin
Admiral: Mikhail Patrikeyev, Nikita Sirotkin
Admiral’s Stepan Zakharchuk is sitting out the 14th game of his 15-game suspension.
- Salavat defenseman Zakhar Arzamastsev is hoping to collect his 100th career KHL point.
- Salavat captain Anton Burdasov is hoping to score his 100th career KHL goal.
- Vityaz is coming into this contest off of two straight losses.
- Metallurg is coming into this contest on a 6-game winning streak.
- Vityaz is playing the 6th of six straight home games. Metallurg is playing the 3rd of four straight road games.
- Vityaz forward Artyom Shvets-Rogovoy has points in 3 straight games, going 2-1-3 over that span.
- Vityaz defenseman Denis Kokarev has points in 4 straight games, going 2-2-4 over that span.
- Metallurg goalie Vasily Koshechkin has played 69:21 straight minutes without allowing a goal against.
- Metallurg forward Nikolai Kulemin has points in 6 straight games, going 6-2-8 over that span, including a goal in each of the last four games.
Yevgeni Biryukov is looking to collect his 100th career regular season point in the KHL.
- SKA is coming into this contest having won two games in a row.
- Traktor is coming into this contest hot off a win.
- SKA is playing the 3rd of four straight home games. Traktor is playing the 3rd of three straight road games.
- Traktor last won a game in St. Petersburg on January 21st, 2011 by a score of 4-3.
- Traktor forward Vitaly Kravtsov has points in 4 straight games, going 1-4-5 over that span.
SKA: Alexander Dergachev (expected out until DEC 10th, 2018), Artyom Zub (expected out until NOV 21st, 2018)
Traktor: Alexander Bergstrom, Richard Gynge, Artyom Penkovsky, Evgeny Ryasensky, Paul Szczechura.
Pavel Datsyuk is looking to collect his 100th career KHL assist.
Ilya Kablukov is looking to suit up for his 500th career regular season game in the KHL.
Vasili Tokranov is looking to suit up for his 300th career game in the KHL.
Andrei Zubarev is looking to suit up for his 500th career game in the KHL.
- Spartak is coming into this contest having won its last game.
- Lokomotiv is coming into this contest having lost its last game
- Spartak is playing the 3rd of three straight home games. Lokomotiv is playing the 6th of seven straight road games.
- Spartak forward Kaspars Daugavins has points in 3 straight games, going 2-3-5 over that span.
Lokomotiv: Yegor Korshkov, Pavel Kraskovsky
Lokomotiv’s Grigory Denisenko will miss this game due to suspension
- Sochi is coming into this contest fresh off a win.
- Severstal is coming into this contest fresh off a loss.
- Sochi is playing the 3rd of three straight home games. Severstal is playing the 2nd of two straight road games.
Sochi: Alexander Akmaldinov, Dmitri Arkhipov, Kirill Kapustin, Sean Collins, Dmitri Lugin, Denis Mosalyov, Oleg Pogorishny
Severstal: Valery Vasilyev, Nikolai Kazakovtsev, Matej Stransky, Carter Ashton
- HC Sochi defenseman Nikita Shchitov is looking to suit up for his 500th career game in the KHL.
- Severstal forward Yuri Trubachev is looking to collect his 200th career point in the KHL.
- Arturs Kulda is looking to collect his 300th career regular season game in the KHL.
- Dinamo Minsk is coming into this contest having lost its last game.
- Avtomobilist is coming into this contest having lost its last two games.
- Dinamo is playing the 3rd of three straight home games. Avtomobilist is playing the 3rd of three straight road games.
Dinamo Minsk: Alexander Pavlovich
Avtomobilist: Jakub Kovar, Alexander Kucheryavenko, Vitali Popov
- Avtomobilist forward Artyom Gareyev is looking to score his 100th career regular season point in the KHL.
- Avtomobilist defenseman Denis Bodrov is looking to suit up for his 400th career regular season KHL game.