- Avtomobilist is coming into this contest on a 2-game winning streak.
- Torpedo is coming into this contest fresh off a loss.
Avtomobilist: Alexander Kucheryavenko, Evgeny Mozer.
Torpedo: Kirill Urakov
- Avtomobilist goalie Jakub Kovar is set to play his 300th game for the club (currently at 299).
- Avtomobilist forward Vyacheslav Litovchenko is hoping to gain his 100th KHL point (currently at 99).
- Torpedo defenseman Georgy Misharin is set to play his 600th KHL game (currently at 599).
- Metallurg is coming into this contest on a 3-game losing streak.
- Barys is coming into this contest on a 2-game losing streak.
- Teams exchanged with wins this season 2-1 for Metallurg and 3-1 for Barys.
Metallurg: Ivan Vereshchagin, Branzon Kozun
Barys: Iiro Pakarinen, Viktor Svedberg
- Metallurg defenseman Yegor Yakovlev is set to play his 400th KHL game (currently at 399).
- Traktor is coming into this contest fresh off a win.
- CSKA is coming into this contest fresh off a loss.
- CSKA defeated Traktor this season by 3-0 score and won last five games with 18-1 difference.
- Sukhachyov has 81:02 minutes of shutout hockey.
- Vey has points in 3 straight games, going 0-3-3 over that span.
Traktor: Anton Glinkin, Christian Thomas
- Severstal is coming into this contest on a 2-game losing streak.
- Dinamo Riga is coming into this contest fresh off a win.
- Severstal defeated Dinamo this season by 6-1 score.
- Liska has points in 3 straight games, going 1-2-3 over that span.
- Yakimov has points in 3 straight games, going 2-2-4 over that span.
Severstal: Yegor Yakovlev
- Dinamo Riga defenseman Kristaps Sotnieks is set to play his 600th KHL game (currently at 599).
- Dinamo Riga goalie Alexander Salak is hoping to get his 250th KHL appearance (currently at 249).
- Dinamo is coming into this contest fresh off a win.
- Admiral is coming into this contest on a 2-game winning streak.
- Dinamo last time defeated Admiral on home ice November 28, 2015 by 5-3 score.
- Bakos has points in 6 straight games, going 2-5-7 over that span.
- Pulkkinen has points in 3 straight games, going 4-0-4 over that span.
Dinamo Minsk: Marc-Andre Gragnani, Sergei Kostitsyn, Stefan Elliott
Admiral: Alexander Ugolnikov
- Dynamo is coming into this contest fresh off a loss.
- Lokomotiv is coming into this contest on a 2-game winning streak.
- Dynamo lost last five games to Lokomotiv with 3-14 difference.
- Lokomotiv defeated Dynamo this season by 5-2 score.
- Shipachyov has points in 3 straight games, going 1-5-6 over that span.
- Cajkovsky has points in 3 straight games, going 2-3-5 over that span.
- Tarasov has points in 4 straight games, going 3-2-5 over that span.
Dynamo: Sergei Boikov, Vyacheslav Kulyomin, Igor Polygalov
Lokomotiv: Andrei Markov
- Dynamo defenseman Kirill Lyamin is hoping to get his 100th KHL assist (currently at 99).
- Lokomotiv forward Daniil Apalkov is looking to get his 200th KHL point (currently at 199).
- Jokerit is coming into this contest fresh off a loss.
- Amur is coming into this contest fresh off a win.
- Amur defeated Jokerit this season by 4-1 score.
- Kontiola has points in 3 straight games, going 1-5-6 over that span.
- Golubev has points in 3 straight games, going 2-2-4 over that span.
Jokerit: Niklas Jensen
Amur: Artyom Zhelezkov, Danil Fayzullin, Dmitry Shulenin
- Amur forward Stanislav Katsuba is set to play his 100th KHL game (currently at 99).