- Amur is coming into this contest fresh off a loss.
- Vityaz is coming into this contest fresh off a loss.
Amur: Maxim Kondratyev, Alexander Kuznetsov, Dmitry Shulenin.
Vityaz: Ilya Ezhov, Evgeny Katichev, Pyotr Kochetkov.
- Vityaz defenseman Igor Golovkov is set to play his 500th KHL game (currently at 499).
- Vityaz forward Evgeny Artyukhin is hoping to gain his 100th KHL point (currently at 99).
- Kunlun Red Star is coming into this contest on a 2-game winning streak.
- Spartak is coming into this contest fresh off a win.
- Miller has points in 3 straight games, going 2-1-3 over that span.
- Bespalov has 67:13 minutes of shutout hockey.
Kunlun: Brayden Jaw, Alex Riche.
Spartak: Tobias Viklund, Alexei Grishin.
- Sibir is coming into this contest on a 2-game winning streak.
- Avangard is coming into this contest fresh off a win.
Sibir: Vladislav Naumov.
Avangard: Denis Zernov, Artyom Manukyan, Alexader Sudnitsin, Maxim Chudinov.
- Sibir defenseman Oleg Piganovich is looking for his 100th KHL assist (currently at 99).
- Avangard defensemen Alexei Bondarev and Nikita Pivtsakin are hoping to gain their 100th KHL points (both currently at 99).
- Barys is coming into this contest on a 3-game winning streak.
- Jokerit is coming into this contest fresh off a win.
- Knight has points in 3 straight game, going 2-3-5 over that span.
- Videll has points in 3 straight games, going 2-2-4 over that span.
- O’Neill has points in 3 straight games, going 2-2-4 over that span.
Barys: Iiro Pakarinen, Viktor Svedberg.
Jokerit: Niklas Jensen.
- SKA is coming into this contest on a 9-game winning streak.
- Ak Bars is coming into this contest fresh off a win.
- Ak Bars defeated SKA this season by 2-1 score.
- Plotnikov has points in 3 straight games, going 1-2-3 over that span.
- Barabanov has points in 3 straight games, going 4-1-5 over that span.
- Kuzmenko has points in 7 straight games, going 3-7-10 over that span.
SKA: Lukas Bengtsson, Vladimir Tkachyov, Artyom Shvets-Rogovoi.
Ak Bars: Kirill Petrov, Mikhail Fisenko.
- Ak Bars defenseman Albert Yarullin is looking for his 100th KHL point (currently at 99).
- SKA defenseman Igor Ozhiganov is set to play his 400th KHL game (currently at 399).
- CSKA is coming into this contest fresh off a loss.
- Dynamo is coming into this contest fresh off a loss.
- CSKA defeated Dynamo this season by 2-1 score.
Dynamo: Sergei Boikov, Vyacheslav Kulyomin, Igor Polygalov.
- Dynamo defensemen Kirill Lyamin is hoping to collect his 100th KHL assist (currently at 99).
- Severstal is coming into this contest fresh off a loss.
- Dinamo is coming into this contest fresh off a loss.
- Teams exchanged with wins this season 2-1 OT for Dinamo and 6-1 for Severstal.
Dinamo: Kristaps Zile
Severstal: Geoff Kinrade
- Severstal forward Vladislav Kodola is set to play his 100th KHL game (currently at 99).