- Amur is coming into this contest fresh off a loss.
- Sochi is coming into this contest on a 3-game losing streak.
- Amur is playing the 4th of four straight home games.
- Sochi is playing the 5th of five straight road games.
- Forward Rosen leads Sochi in scoring with 22 points after having scored 54 in 59 total games for SHL champion Vaxjo Lakers last season.
Amur: Maxim Kondratyev, Pavel Turbin
Sochi: Dmitri Arkhipov, Sean Collins, Dmitri Lugin, Denis Mosalyov, Vadim Khlopotov, Oleg Pogorishny
- Forward Alexander Akmaldinov is looking to suit up for his 100th career KHL game.
- Forward Vyacheslav Ushenin is looking to collect his 100th career KHL point.
- Kunlun is playing the 5th of five straight home games.
- Sibir is playing the 3rd of three straight road games.
- Sibir’s top five scorers all have 6 or more goals scored this season. Not a one of them has scored more than 8 goals.
- On November 28 Sibir beat Kunlun 6:5 SO. Chinese team player Olli Palola made a hat-trick
Kunlun: Krisjanis Redlihs, Marc-André Gragnani
Sibir: Samvel Mnatsyan, Oleg Piganovich
- Salavat is coming into this contest fresh off a loss.
- Metallurg is coming into this contest having won 2 in a row.
- Salavat is playing the 3rd of four straight home games.
- Metallurg is playing the 1st of four straight road games.
- Each of the Metallurg forwards Mozyakin, Ellison, and Rasmussen currently has 18 assists this season.
Salavat: Nikita Li, Vyacheslav Solodukhin, Grigori Panin
- Forward Nikita Filatov is looking to suit up for his 300th career regular season KHL game.
- Traktor is coming into this contest fresh off a loss.
- Admiral is coming into this contest on a 2-game winning streak.
- Traktor is playing the 4th of five straight home games.
- Admiral is playing the 1st of three straight road games.
- Konkov has points in 4 straight games, going 2-3-5 over that span.
- Glazachev has points in 3 straight games, going 1-2-3 over that span.
Traktor: Alexander Bergstrom, Richard Gynge, Artyom Penkovsky, Evgeny Ryasensky, Nikita Khlystov
Admiral: Nikita Sirotkin, Timur Taratunin
- Forward Sergei Konkov is hoping to score his 100th career regular season KHL goal.
- Avangard is coming into this contest fresh off a win.
- Avtomobilist is coming into this contest having won its last game.
- Avangard is playing the 1st of four straight home games.
- Avtomobilist is playing the 2nd of three straight road games.
- Avtomobilist last defeated Avangard on the road on November 3rd, 2013, by a score of 2-1.
- Kovar has played 95:36 straight minutes without allowing a goal against.
- Dawes has points in 5 straight games, going 3-3-6 over that span.
Avangard: Karri Ramo
Avtomobilist: Georgi Belousov, Vitali Popov, Nikita Tryamkin, Stanislav Yegorshev
- Forward Artyom Gareyev is looking to score his 100th career regular season point in the KHL.
- Spartak Moscow is coming into this contest fresh off a win.
- Severstal is coming into this contest on a horrendous 6-game losing streak.
- Spartak is playing the 1st of four straight home games.
- Severstal is playing the 1st of three straight road games.
- Bespalov has played 123:53 straight minutes of shutout hockey.
Spartak: Maxim Goncharov, Enver Lisin
Severstal: Valeri Vasilyev, Nikolai Kazakovtsev, Alexander Makarov, Dmitri Kazionov
- Forward Maxim Rybin is looking to collect his 200th career KHL point. He currently has 198.