- Admiral is coming into this contest fresh off a victory.
- Amur is also coming into this contest fresh off a victory.
- Admiral is playing the 8th of eight straight home games.
- Amur is on a 1-game road trip.
- Admiral has defeated Amur twice this season, 2-0 and 3-1, but Admiral has also lost to last place Amur, 3-1.
- Butuzov has points in 3 straight games, going 5-1-6 over that span.
- Dyakov has points in 3 straight games, going 1-2-3 over that span.
- Mishchenko has points in 3 straight games, going 1-2-3 over that span.
- Langhammer has played 73:21 straight minutes without allowing a goal against.
- Despite its rather low spot in the standings, Admiral does feature 6 forwards with 20 or more points.
- Amur: Kirill Rasskazov, Pavel Turbin, Daniil Faizullin, Vladislav Ushenin
- Forward Alexander Gorshkov is looking to collect his 100th career regular season KHL point.
- Kunlun is coming into this contest trying to end a 6-game losing streak.
- Avangard is also coming into this contest on a 2-game winning streak.
- Kunlun is playing the 7th of seven straight home games.
- Avangard is playing the 4th of four straight road games.
- Avangard has defeated Kunlun three times this season, 4-2, 5-1, and most recently 6-3. Safe to say that this is about the worst opponent Kunlun could face in such a situation of desperation.
- Kunlun still has never defeated Avangard in a KHL game.
- Mikheyev now leads Avangard in scoring with 22 goals and 41 points.
- Kunlun: Johan Sundstrom, Cory Kane, Marc-André Gragnani, Josh Nicholls, Oskars Bartulis, Ville Lajunen
- Avangard: Karri Ramo, Alexei Emelin
- Forward Krisjanis Redlihs is hoping to collect his 100th career KHL assist.
- Severstal is coming into this contest having lost two in a row.
- Vityaz is coming into this contest having won its last game.
- Severstal is playing the 1st of four straight home games.
- Vityaz is playing the 1st of three straight road games.
- The teams have played three times this season, with Vityaz winning twice, the first 4-1 and 5-3 while Severstal took the other 2-1.
- Severstal: Konstantin Korneyev
- Dynamo Moscow is coming into this contest fresh off a win.
- Dinamo Riga is coming into this contest fresh off a loss.
- Dynamo is playing the 3rd of five straight home games.
- Dinamo is playing the 1st of two straight road games.
- Moscow appears to be Riga’s favorite opponent. Dinamo has won all three games between these teams this season, 4-2, 5-4, and 2-1 in OT.
- Darzins has points in 3 straight games, going 3-1-4 over that span.
- Redlihs has points in 4 straight games, going 1-3-4 over that span.
- Dynamo: Andrei Alexeyev, Maxim Afinogenov, Miika Koivisto, Ivan Muranov, Daniil Tarasov, Vyacheslav Kulemin
- Riga: Gunars Skvorcovs
- Forward Miks Indrasis is hoping to score his 100th career KHL goal.
- CSKA is coming into this contest on a 2-game losing streak.
- Dinamo is coming into this contest having won its last game.
- CSKA is playing the 2nd of three straight home games.
- Dinamo is playing the 4th of four straight road games.
- CSKA has defeated Dinamo twice this season, 2-1 and 3-0.
- CSKA can, with a shutout victory, set the new record for the number of games “played to nil” by one team in a season. The current record is 17 from the 2015/2016 KHL season.
- Minsk: Dmitry Buinitsky, Alexander Pavlovich, Denis Osipov, Kirill Gotovets, Andrei Kostitsyn, Artur Gavrus
- Defenseman Mat Robinson is hoping to collect his 100th career KHL assist.
- Forward Sergei Andronov is looking to collect his 100th career regular season KHL point.