- Avtomobilist is playing the 2nd of three straight home games.
- Kunlun is playing the 2nd of eight straight road games.
- Avtomobilist is currently on a league-high 7-game winning streak.
- Kunlun is entering this contest fresh off a loss.
- Holland has points in 3 straight games, going 1-2-3 over that span.
- Sexton has points in 3 straight games, going 2-1-3 over that span.
Avtomobilist: Anatoli Golyshev, Pavel Datsyuk
- Metallurg is playing the 2nd of four straight home games.
- Spartak Moscow is playing the 2th of three straight road games.
- Metallurg is entering this game on a 5-game losing streak.
- Spartak Moscow is entering the contest on a 2-game losing streak.
- Spartak Moscow has never won a game in Magnitogorsk.
- Metallurg’s current losing streak is the longest it has ever experienced in KHL play.
Spartak Moscow: Ilya Arkalov
Goaltender Vasili Koschechkin is hoping to play in his 500th career regular season KHL game (currently at 499).
- Salavat is playing the 3rd of four straight home games.
- Avangard is playing the 4th of four straight road games.
- Salavat is coming into this contest on a 2-game winning streak.
- Avangard is also coming into this contest on a 2-game losing streak.
- The teams have already faced off three times this season, exchanging 2-0 and 4-3 (in OT) victories.
Salavat: Nikita Zhuldikov
Avangard: Alexei Yemelin, Denis Zernov, Artyom Manukyan, Maxim Mizyurin, Cody Franson, Sergei Shirokov
Forward Alexander Kadeykin is hoping collect his 100th career KHL point (currently at 99).
Defenseman Alexei Bondarev is hoping to collect his 100th career KHL point (currently at 99).
- Ak Bars is playing the 3rd of three straight home games.
- Neftekhimik is playing the 2nd of four straight road games.
- Ak Bars is entering this game on a 4-game winning streak.
- Neftekhimik is entering the contest on a 2-game losing streak.
- Wikstrand has points in 4 straight games, going 1-4-5 over that span.
- A. Galimov has points in 3 straight games, going 1-2-3 over that span.
Ak Bars: Emil Galimov
Neftekhimik: Pavel Padakin, Bulat Shafigullin
Defenseman Yevgeni Ryasensky is hoping collect his 100th career KHL point (currently at 99).
Forward Dmitri Kazionov is hoping to suit up for his 500th career KHL game (currently at 499).
- Dynamo Moscow is playing the 2nd of three straight home games.
- SKA is playing the 2nd of five straight home games.
- Dynamo Moscow is coming into this contest on a 1-game losing streak.
- SKA is coming into this contest on a 2-game winning streak.
- Including playoffs, Dynamo Moscow has lost its last 7 home games against SKA.
- Shipachyov has points in 9 straight games, going 4-7-11 over that span.
- Hietanen has points in 5 straight games, going 3-3-6 over that span.
- Melnichuk has played 66:30 straight minutes of shutout hockey.
- Sochi is playing the 2nd of four straight home games.
- Torpedo is playing the 1st of two straight road games.
- Sochi is entering the contest on a 1-game losing streak.
- Torpedo is entering the game on a 4-game losing streak.
- Tikhomirov has played 72:05 straight minutes without allowing a goal against.
- Lindback has played 59:44 straight minutes without allowing a goal against.
- Zhafyarov has points in 4 straight games, going 3-1-4 over that span.
- Schroeder has points in 3 straight games, going 0-4-4 over that span.
- Genoway has points in 3 straight games, going 1-2-3 over that span.
Sochi: Vladislav Kaletnik, Vadim Khlopotov, Nikita Shchitov
Torpedo: Danil Veryayev, Daniil Ilyin
Forward Kirill Kapustin is hoping to suit up for his 300th career KHL game (currently at 299).
Forward Ilya Krikunov can set the record for KHL games played for Sochi. He currently shares the record of 184 games with goaltender Konstantin Barulin, who currently mans the nets for Neftekhimik.
Forward Paul Szczechura is hoping to pot his 100th career KHL goal (currently at 99).
- CSKA is playing the 2nd of two straight home games.
- Admiral is playing the 2nd of five straight road games.
- CSKA is entering this contest on a 2-game winning streak.
- Admiral is entering this contest fresh off a loss.
- Admiral has never defeated CSKA in KHL play.
- Kaprizov has points in 6 straight games, going 4-7-11 over that span.
- Grigorenko has points in 6 straight games, going 3-6-9 over that span.
Forward Konstantin Okulov is looking to suit up for his 200th career regular season KHL game (currently at 199).
Defenseman Ivan Mischenko is hoping to suit up for his 100th career KHL game (currently at 99).