- Ak Bars is coming into this contest having won its last game.
- Torpedo is coming into this contest having lost its last game.
- Ak Bars is playing the 1st of two straight home games.
- Torpedo is playing the 1st of three straight road games.
- Ak Bars has already defeated Torpedo – a team desperate for points at this juncture – three times this season, 4-2, 4-3 in OT, and 5-1.
- If there were a so-called Cy Young award given out in the KHL, winger Klinkhammer would be hot in the running. He’s got just 22 points this season, but 18 of them are goals.
- Torpedo is sporting 7 players with 11 or more goals. Calof leads the way with 20.
- Ak Bars: Emil Garipov, Alexei Potapov
- Spartak Moscow is coming into this contest having lost its last 3 games.
- Sochi is coming into this contest on a 2-game losing streak.
- Spartak is playing the 2nd of four straight home games.
- Sochi is on a 1-game road trip.
- Spartak has defeated Sochi twice this season, both times in overtime, 3-2 and 2-1.
- Daugavins recently took over the team lead in scoring for Spartak. He now has 13 goals and 35 points.
- Defenseman Kulik only has 8 points, but he leads Spartak by a country mile in +/- with a +16 rating.
- Swedish center Rosen leads Sochi in scoring with 27 assists and 40 points. But that only places him 22nd overall in KHL scoring.
- Spartak: Andrei Kuteikin (expected to be out until March 1st)
- Sochi: Dmitri Lugin, Nikita Shchitov, Oleg Pogorishny, Stepan Starkov, Dmitry Arkhipov, Denis Mosalyov
- Forward Enver Lisin is hoping to collect his 100th career regular season KHL assist.
- Defenseman Mikhail Grigoryev is hoping to suit up for his 400th career KHL game.
- Defenseman Dmitry Vishnevsky is hoping to collect his 100th career KHL point.
- Defenseman Yuri Alexandrov is hoping to collect his 100th career regular season KHL point.
- Forward Sergei Schmelyov is hoping to suit up for his 300th career regular season KHL game.
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