- Metallurg is coming into this contest on a 4-game winning streak
- Metallurg forward Iiro Pakarinen has points in 3 straight games, going 3-0-3 over that span
- Barys: Brandon Bochenski, Jesse Blacker
- Sergei Mozyakin is suit to play his 700th KHL game
- Andrei Chibisov is going to play his 200th KHL regular season game
- Sibir is playing 1st of six straight home games
- Admiral is playing 3rd of three straight road games
- Sibir: Samvel Mnatsyan, Oleg Piganovich
- Admiral: Alexander Mereskin, Nikita Sirotkin, Timur Taratunin
- Sergei Konkov is going to play his 600th game in KHL and he’s looking to score 100th goal in KHL regular season games
- Ak Bars is coming into this contest on 7-game winning streak
- Severstal’s last win in Kazan happened on January 28, 2012, by a score of 1:0
- Ak Bars: Anton Lander, Fyodor Malykhin, Mikhail Sidorov, Alexander Sharychenkov, Dmitry Yudin
- Severstal: Nikolai Kazakovtsev, Dmitry Kazionov, Alexander Makarov
- Rafael Batyshin is suit to play his 400th KHL regular season game
- Kunlun Red Star never wins in Yaroslavl
- Kunlun forward Brandon Yip has points in 3 straight games, going 4-2-6 over that span
- Lokomotiv: Yegor Korshkov, Pavel Kraskovsky, Rushan Rafikov
- Kunlun Red Star: Marc-Andre Gragnani, Krisjanis Redlihs
- Brandon Kozun is looking to collect his 100th assist in KHL regular season game.
- Alexander Salak is hoping to win his 100th KHL regular season game
- Dynamo is coming into this contest on 4-game winning streak
- Amur is coming into this contest on 2-game losing streak
- Vadim Shipachyov has points in 4 straight games, going 2-5-7 over that span
- Dmitry Kagarlitsky has points in 4 straight games, going 1-4-5 over that span
- Dynamo goalie Alexander Yeryomenko has played 119:57 minutes of shutout hockey
- Dynamo: Maxim Afinogenov, Patrik Zackrisson, Miks Indrasis, Daniil Tarasov
- Amur: Jan Kolar, Maxim Kondratyev, Pavel Turbin
- Vyacheslav Kulyomin is set to play his 400th KHL regular season game, he’s also looking to collect 100th KHL regular season point
- Vyacheslav Ushenin is hoping to earn 100th KHL point
- CSKA is coming into this contest on 15-game winning streak
- CSKA already beat Sochi this season by a score 2:1 SO, 2:1 SO, 2:0
- Mikhail Grigorenko has points in 5 straight games, going 2-6-8 over that span
- Sochi: Dmitry Arkhipov, Sean Collins, Dmitry Lugin, Denis Mosalyov, Oleg Pogorishny, Vadim Khlopotov
- Sergei Andronov is going to pick his 100th KHL regular season point
- Salavat is coming into this contest on 3-game losing streak
- Teams has played twice in Ufa this season, 3:2 win for Salavat and 1:0 OT for Omsk
- Anton Burdasov is missing first of two games of his suspension
- Avangard: Karri Ramo
- Salavat Yulaev: Nikita Li, Grigory Panin, Vyacheslav Solodukhin
- Maxim Chudinov is going to play his 500th regular season game
- Yegor Martynov is looking to collect his 100th KHL point
- Dinamo is coming into this contest on 3-game losing streak
- Nikita Bespalov has played 183:08 minutes of shutout hockey
- Ilya Zubov has points in 3 straight games, going 3-0-3 over that span
- This season Spartak beat Dinamo in Riga 3-1, Dinamo beat Spartak in Moscow 3-2
- For first time in three years KHL is coming to Mytishchi
- Spartak: Maxim Goncharov
- Dinamo: Sergei Gimayev, Gunars Skvorcovs
- Kaspars Daugavins is going to collect his 100th assist in KHL regular season games
- Andris Dzerins is set to play his 300th KHL game