Avtomobilist is playing the 3rd of four straight home games.
Barys is playing the 4th of four straight road games.
Avtomobilist is coming into this contest having lost its last game.
Barys is coming into this contest having lost two in a row.
Barys has defeated Avtomobilist three times this season by overtime scores of 2-1 and 3-2 as well as 4-2, while also having lost to them once 4-3 in OT.
Videll has points in 4 straight games, going 2-5-7 over that span.
Avtomobilist: Nikolai Stasenko, Alexander Kucheryavenko, Stepan Khripunov
Barys: Iiro Pakarinen
Forward Geoff Platt is hoping to collect his 300th career KHL point (currently at 299).
Traktor is playing the 1st of two straight home games.
Ak Bars is playing the 2nd of three straight road games.
Traktor is coming into this contest on a 3-game losing streak.
Ak Bars is coming into this contest on a 3-game winning streak.
Ak Bars has defeated Traktor three times this season by scores of 6-0, 4-1 and 4-3 in OT.
Frattin has points in 4 straight games, going 4-0-3 over that span.
Traktor: Sergei Konkov, Artyom Mikheyev, Nikita Shcherbak
Ak Bars: Andrei Pedan, Daniil Zhuravlyov, Viktor Tikhonov, Mikhail Fisenko
Forward Anton Glinkin is hoping to score his 100th career KHL goal (currently at 99).
Severstal is on a 1-game homestand.
Vityaz is on a 1-game road trip.
Severstal is coming into this contest fresh off a loss.
Vityaz is coming into this contest on a 3-game losing streak.
Vityaz has defeated Severstal twice this season by scores of 4-1 and 2-1.
Severstal: Daniil Vovchenko, Igor Geraskin
Vityaz: Yegor Voronkov, Alexander Shevchenko, Ivan Petrakov
Forward Yevgeni Artyukhin is hoping to collect his 100th career KHL point (currently at 99).
Spartak Moscow is playing the 3rd of six straight home games.
Kunlun is playing the 2nd of three straight road games.
Spartak Moscow is coming into this game on a 2-game winning streak.
Kunlun is coming into this game having lost its last game.
Kunlun defeated Spartak Moscow earlier this season by an overtime score of 4-3.
Bespalov has played 144:17 straight minutes of shutout hockey.
Rylov has points in 5 straight games, going 6-0-6 over that span.
Murphy has points in 4 straight games, going 1-3-4 over that span.
Brule has points in 4 straight games, going 3-1-4 over that span.
Yip has points in 3 straight games, going 1-5-6 over that span.
Kunlun: David Bondra, Alex Riche, Brayden Jaw
Sochi is playing the 1st of three straight home games.
Lokomotiv is playing the 2nd of two straight road games.
Sochi is coming into this contest having lost its last game.
Lokomotiv is coming into this contest having won its last game.
Lokomotiv has defeated Sochi three times this season, namely 2-1, 1-0, and 5-2.
Sochi: Pavel Makarenko, Nikita Shchitov, Artyom Tomilin, Malte Stromwall, Dmitri Shikin