- Admiral is coming into this game on a 3-game winning streak;
- SKA is coming into this game on a 3-game winning streak and finishing their Far East road trip;
- Admiral last time defeated SKA at home on January 3rd, 2014, by a shootout score of 4-3;
- Bakos has points in 3 straight games, going 2-2-4 over that span;
- Ljungh has points in 3 straight games, going 1-3-4 over that span;
- Galenyuk has points in 3 straight games, going 1-3-4 over that span;
Admiral: Alexander Ugolnikov;
SKA: Lukas Bengtsson, Vasily Tokranov, Nail Yakupov, Artyom Shvets-Rogovoi;
- Amur is coming into this game on a 4-game losing streak;
- Jokerit is coming to Khabarovsk fresh off a loss;
- Gorshkov has points in 3 straight games, going 3-0-3 over that span;
Amur: Artyom Zhelezkov, Alexander Kuznetsov, Danil Fayzullin;
Jokerit: Niklas Jensen, Steve Moses;
- Kunlun Red Star is coming into this game on 3-game losing streak;
- Metallurg is coming into this game on 5-game winning streak;
- Kunlun Red Star has never defeated Metallurg in KHL regular seasons;
- Rasmussen has points in 4 straight games, going 2-2-4 over that span;
- Koshechkin has 63:35 minutes of shutout hockey;
Kunlun Red Star: Brayden Jaw, Brandon Yip, Alex Riche, Jake Chelios;
Metallurg: Ivan Vereshchagin, Brandon Kozun;
- Traktor is coming into this game on a 3-game losing streak;
- Avtomobilist is coming into this game on a 3-game winning streak;
- Avtomobilist already defeated Traktor this season by 3-0 and 5-3 score;
- Dawes has points in 3 straight games, going 4-1-5 over that span;
- Macek has points in 3 straight games, going 1-3-4 over that span;
- Vasilevsky has points in 3 straight games, going 1-2-3 over that span;
- Datsyuk has points in 3 straight games, going 2-2-4 over that span;
Traktor: Anton Glinkin, Alexei Kruchinin, Andrei Popov, Christian Thomas;
Avtomobilist: Alexander Kucheryavenko, Evgeny Mozer;
- Torpedo is coming into this contest fresh off a win;
- Vityaz is coming into this contest on a 3-game losing streak;
- Torpedo already defeated Vityaz twice this season with 4-2, 4-3 SO score;
- Bocharov has points in 3 straight games, going 3-1-4 over that span;
Torpedo: Georgy Misharin, Paul Szchechura;
- Vityaz forward Pavel Varfolomeyev is set to play his 200th KHL game (currently at 199);
- Vityaz forward Evgeny Artyukhin is hoping to collect his 100th KHL point (currently at 99);
- Dinamo Riga is coming into this contest on a 2-game winning streak;
- HC Sochi is coming into this contest on a 2-game losing streak;
- HC Sochi already defeated Dinamo this season by 3-2 score;
- Salak has 67:58 minutes of shutout hockey;
HC Sochi: Nikita Shchitov;
- Dinamo Riga defenseman Kristaps Sotnieks is hoping to collect his 100th KHL point (currently at 99).