- Sibir is coming into this contest on a 6-game losing streak.
- Admiral is coming into this contest fresh off a loss.
- Sibir won 2 of 3 games against Admiral this season winning 5-1, 2-1 and losing 2-3 SO.
- Bakos has points in 5 straight games, going 2-4-6 over that span.
Sibir: Vladislav Naumov.
Admiral: Alexander Ugolnikov
- Barys is coming into this contest fresh off a loss.
- Amur is coming into this contest fresh off a loss.
- Barys defeated Amur this season by 3-2, 3-1 scores.
Barys: Iiro Pakarinen, Viktor Svedberg.
Amur: Artyom Zhelezkov, Alexander Kuznetsov, Danil Faizullin.
- Barys forward Nikita Mikhailis is set to play his 200th KHL game (currently at 199).
- Salavat Yulaev is coming into this contest on a 2-game winning streak.
- Ak Bar is coming into this contest on a 5-game winning streak.
- Salavat already defeated Ak Bars this season by 3-1 score.
- Azevedo has points in 3 straight games, going 1-3-4 over that span.
- Kara has points in 5 straight games, going 3-3-6 over that span.
Ak Bars: Dmitry Voronkov, Vladimir Tkachyov.
- Salavat Yulaev forward Teemu Hartikainen is hoping to score his 300th KHL point for the club (currently at 299).
- Avtomobilist and CSKA are coming into this contest fresh off a win.
- Dawes has points in 6 straight games, going 6-2-8 over that span.
Avtomobilist: Alexander Kucheryavenko, Evgeny Mozer.
- CSKA defenseman Klas Dahlback is set to play his 100th KHL game (currently at 99).
- Avtomobilist forward Dan Sexton is hoping to collect his 300th KHL game appearance (currently at 299).
- Traktor is coming into this contest on a 5-game losing streak.
- Torpedo is coming into this contest on a 4-game winning streak.
- Sedlak has points in 3 straight games, going 2-1-3 over that span.
- Varnakov has points in 3 straight games, going 3-4-7 over that span.
- Genoway has points in 4 straight games, going 1-4-5 over that span.
- Shenfeld has points in 3 straight games, going 0-3-3 over that span.
Traktor: Anton Glinkin and Christian Thomas
- Sochi is coming into this contest fresh off a loss.
- Dinamo is coming into this contest on a 3-game losing streak.
- HC Sochi twice defeated Dinamo this season by 3-2, 2-1 scores.
- Stromwall has point in 3 straight games, going 3-2-5 over that span.
- Dinamo had only one win in KHL against Sochi dated to December 3, 2015 by 2-1 OT score.
HC Sochi: Nikita Shchitov.
- Dinamo Riga goalie Alexander Salak is hoping to get his 250th KHL appearance (currently at 249).
- Jokerit is coming into this contest on a 2-game winning streak.
- Lokomotiv is coming into this contest fresh off a loss.
- Teams exchanged with wins this season by 4-1, 1-5 scores.
- O’Neill has points in 3 straight games, going 1-3-4 over that span.
Jokerit: Niklas Jensen.
Lokomotiv: Andrei Markov.
- Lokomotiv forward Daniil Apalkov is hoping to get his 200th KHL point (currently at 199).