- Admiral is coming into this contest fresh off a loss.
- Spartak is coming into this contest fresh off a loss.
- Admiral defeated Spartak this season by 4-3 score.
Spartak: Tobias Viklund, Alexei Grishin.
- Amur is coming into this contest fresh off a win.
- Avangard is coming into this contest fresh off a loss.
- Avangard twice defeated Amur this season by 1-0 and 3-2 score.
- Semyonov has points in 4 straight games, going 1-3-4 over that span.
- Koshelev has points in 4 straight games, going 3-1-4 over that span.
- Alikin has 66:48 minutes of shutout hockey.
Amur: Alexander Kuznetsov, Danil Fayzullin, Dmitry Shulenin
Avangard: Denis Zernov, Artyom Manukyan, Alexander Sudnitsin, Maxim Chudinov
- Avangard defensemen Alexei Bondarev and Nikita Pivtsakin are still looking for their 100th KHL point (currently at 99).
- Kunlun Red Star is coming into this contest fresh off a win.
- Vityaz is coming into this contest fresh off a win.
- Kunlun defeated Vityaz this season by 4-2 score.
Kunlun Red Star: Brayden Jaw, Alex Riche.
Vityaz: Ilya Ezhov, Evgeny Katichev, Pyotr Kochetkov.
- Vityaz defenseman Igor Golovkov are set to play his 500th KHL game (currently at 499).
- Vityaz forward Evgeny Artyukhin are hoping to score his 100th KHL point (currently at 99).
- Salavat Yulaev is coming into this contest on a 3-game losing streak.
- Jokerit is coming into this contest fresh off a loss.
- Jokerit defeated Salavat this season by 3-2 SO score.
- Salavat last time win against Jokerit on home ice happened October 24, 2015 by 4-0 score.
Salavat: Pyotr Khokhryakov, Teemu Hartikainen
Jokerit: Niklas Jensen
- CSKA is coming into this contest on a 2-game winning streak.
- SKA is coming into this contest on a 8-game winning streak.
- CSKA twice defeated SKA this season by 3-0, 3-2 SO scores.
- SKA lost six consecutive games to CSKA in regular seasons.
- Kuzmenko has points in 6 straight games, going 3-5-8 over that span.
- Burdasov has points in 4 straight games, going 3-1-4 over that span.
- Koskiranta has points in 3 straight games, going 2-3-5 over that span.
SKA: Lukas Bengtsson, Vladimir Tkachyov, Artyom Shvets-Rogovoi.