- Admiral is coming into this contest on a 2-game losing streak.
- Amur is coming into this contest on a 4-game losing streak.
- Admiral is playing the 1st of eight straight home games.
- Amur is playing the 4th of four straight road games.
- These teams have already met twice this season. Amur won the first game 3-1, Admiral the second 2-0.
- Vikharev has points in 3 straight games, going 3-1-4 over that span.
- Admiral: Timur Taratunin
- Amur: Jan Kolar, Pavel Turbin, Anton Lazarev, Yegor Zhuravlyov
- Forward Vyacheslav Ushenin is looking to collect his 100th career regular season KHL point.
- Barys is coming into this contest on a 3-game winning streak.
- Kunlun is coming into this contest fresh off a loss.
- Barys is playing the 2nd of five straight home games.
- Kunlun is playing the 2nd of two straight road games.
- Barys defeated Kunlun earlier this season by a score of 4-1.
- Kunlun has never won a game in Astana, which is located in Kazakhstan.
- Bochenski has points in 3 straight games, going 1-4-5 over that span.
- Kunlun: Krisjanis Redlihs, Johan Sundstrom, Cory Kane, Blake Parlett, Marc-André Gragnani, Veli-Matti Savinainen, Josh Nicholls, Oskars Bartulis
- Salavat is coming into this contest on a 2-game winning streak.
- Dinamo Riga is coming into this contest fresh off a loss.
- Salavat is playing the 3rd of four straight home games.
- Dinamo is playing the 4th of four straight road games.
- Salavat defeated Dinamo earlier this season 4-2.
- Videll has points in 4 straight games, going 2-3-5 over that span.
- Darzins has points in 3 straight games, going 2-1-3 over that span.
- Forward Dmitry Kugryshev is hoping to score his 100th overall KHL goal.
- Lokomotiv is coming into this contest on a 3-game winning streak.
- SKA is coming into this contest on a 6-game winning streak.
- Lokomotiv is playing the 6th of six straight home games.
- SKA is playing the 7th of seven straight road games.
- The two teams have met twice this year. Lokomotiv defeated SKA by a tight score of 1-0 in
- OT, but lost the second game to SKA 2-0.
- In fact, including playoffs, Lokomotiv has lost its last 10 home games played against SKA.
- Konovalov has played 134:41 straight minutes without allowing a goal against.
- Shestyorkin has played 112:35 straight minutes without allowing a goal against.
- Prokhorkin has points in 3 straight games, going 3-1-4 over that span.
- Khafizullin has points in 3 straight games, going 0-3-3 over that span.
- Lokomotiv: Petri Kontiola, Pavel Kraskovsky, Andrei Loktionov
- SKA: Vasili Tokranov, Patrik Hersley
- Lokomotiv: Artur Kayumov is serving the 11th of a 13-game suspension.
- Forward Stepan Sannikov is hoping to collect his 100th career KHL assist.
- Forward Daniil Apalkov is hoping to collect his 100th career regular season KHL assist.
- Forward Nikolai Prokhorkin is hoping to score his 100th career KHL goal.
- Forward Jarno Koskiranta is hoping to suit up for his 300th career regular season KHL game.
- Forward Viktor Tikhonov is looking to collect his 200th career KHL point.