Salavat faces Sibir aiming to extend winning streak to 4. Preview 20th Nov

Ufa team will try continue their winning streak, Traktor faces Ak Bars for first time since last year’s playoffs.

15:30 Sibir (7-20-3) vs. Salavat Yulaev (17-8-3)

About the game

- Sibir is coming into this contest on a 2-game winning streak.

- Salavat is coming into this contest on a 3-game winning streak.

- Sibir is playing the 5th of five straight home games.

- Salavat is playing the 2nd of two straight road games.

- Salavat has already defeated Sibir once this season by a score of 3-1.

- Alexander Sharov has points in 5 straight games, going 3-3-6 over that span.

- Goaltender Juha Metsola hasn’t allowed a goal against in his last 63:24 minutes played.

Injury list

Sibir: Samvel Mnatsyan, Oleg Piganovich (expected out until the 10th of December, 2018)

Salavat: Nikita Li, Vyacheslav Solodukhin, Grigori Panin

Milestone alert

- Forward Anton Burdasov is hoping to score his 100th career KHL goal.

17:00 Avtomobilist (26-2-1) vs. Neftekhimik (12-14-2)

About the game

- Avtomobilist is coming into this contest having won its last game.

- Neftekhimik is coming into this contest on a 4-game losing streak.

- Avtomobilist is playing the 1st of three straight home games.

- Neftekhimik is playing the 1st of four straight road games.

- Goaltender Vladimir Sokhatsky had a shutout in his last game.

- Dan Sexton has points in 3 straight games, going 4-1-5 over that span.

- Mikael Ruohomaa has points in 6 straight games, going 2-6-8 over that span.

- Adam Polasek has points in 3 straight games, going 1-2-3 over that span.

Injury list

Automobilist: Jakub Kovar, Alexander Kucheryavenko, Vitali Popov

Neftekhimik: Andrei Sergeyev (expected to be out until November 25th, 2018)

17:00 Traktor (11-14-3) vs. Ak Bars (19-7-3)

About the game

- Traktor is coming into this contest having lost its last game.

- Ak Bars is coming into this contest on a 2-game winning streak.

- Traktor is playing the 1st of five straight home games.

- Ak Bars is playing the 1st of two straight road games.

Injury list

Traktor: Alexander Bergstrom, Artyom Penkovsky, Yevgeni Ryasensky, Paul Szczechura

Ak Bars: Fyodor Malykhin, Mikhail Sidorov

Milestone alert

- Defenseman Roman Abrosimov is looking to suit up for his 100th career regular season KHL game.