SKA & CSKA ready to continue incredible 2018-19 success! Preview Feb 26

Avtomobilist and Barys look to continue their dominance of Eastern Conference foes as they each kick of the 2018-19 KHL playoffs with home-ice advantage. Vityaz and Spartak head in as heavy underdogs!

16:30 Barys (2nd in the East) vs. Torpedo (7th in the East)

Series stand

0 - 0

KHL Playoff history

This is the first time these two teams will ever have faced each other in the KHL playoffs.

Injury list

Torpedo: Mathew Bodie, Stanislav Galimov

About the game

- The teams have played twice this season, ultimately splitting the season series. Barys won 4-1 while Torpedo won 6-5 in an OT thriller.

- Parshin is hoping to suit up for his 600th career KHL game.

- Shenfeld has points in 3 straight games, going 1-3-4 over that span.

- Sabolic has points in 3 straight games, going 4-0-4 over that span.

17:00 Avtomobilist (1st in the East) vs. Traktor (8th in the East)

Series stand

0 - 0

KHL Playoff history

This is the first time these two teams will ever have faced each other in the KHL playoffs.

Injury list

Avtomobilist: Andrei Makarov, Vitaly Popov, Denis Bodrov, Francis Pare

Traktor: Alexander Shinin, Paul Szczechura, Ryan Stoa (expected to be out until April 30th)

About the game

- The teams have played four games this season, with Avtomobilist having won each in regulation time, 4-1, 3-2, 2-0, and 3-0.

19:30 CSKA (1st in the West) vs. Vityaz (8th in the West)

Series stand

0 - 0

KHL Playoff history

This is the first time these two teams will ever have faced each other in the KHL playoffs.

About the game

- CSKA has defeated Vityaz three times this season, 3-1, 2-1 in ОТ, and 6-1 while also having lost once against Vityaz 2-0.

- Slepyshev has points in 3 straight games, going 2-2-4 over that span.

- Sorokin has played 123:19 straight minutes without allowing a goal against.Makeyev has points in 4 straight games, going 3-1-4 over that span.

19:30 SKA (2nd in the West) vs. Spartak Moscow (7th in the East)

Series stand

0 - 0

KHL Playoff history

2009 – Round 1 – Spartak Moscow defeats SKA 3-0

2011 – Round 1 – SKA defeats Spartak Moscow 4-0

Injury list

SKA: Yevgeny Ketov, Artyom Zemchyonok

Spartak: Kaspars Daugavins, Andrei Kuteikin, Alexei Grishin

About the game

- The teams have met four times this season and it hasn’t gone well for Spartak. SKA has defeated Spartak all four times, 2-1, 6-0, 3-2 in ОТ, and 2-0.

- Shestyorkin has played 177:46 straight minutes of shutout hockey.

- Hersley has points in 4 straight games, going 2-2-4 over that span.

- Datsyuk has points in 3 straight games, going 0-4-4 over that span.

- Gusev has points in 4 straight games, going 3-4-7 over that span.

- Plotnikov has points in 3 straight games, going 2-2-4 over that span.

- Vishnevsky is hoping to collect his 100th career KHL point.