MINSK (Interstat) — CSKA Moscow will visit Dinamo Minsk on Thursday in a Kontinental Hockey League game at Minsk-Arena. CSKA enters with a 7-3 record, while Dinamo Minsk is 3-6.

Pavel Karnaukhov is the player to watch for CSKA. In CSKA’s most recent game, a 6-5 win over SKA Saint Petersburg, Karnaukhov recorded three goals, four shots on goal and three hits. Nikolai Kovalenko added two goals and four shots, and Ivan Drozdov had three assists and two shots. CSKA’s recent results include a 5-0 win at Lada Togliatti, a 2-0 win at Amur Khabarovsk, a 4-3 shootout win at Admiral Vladivostok, a 3-2 win at Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod, a 4-0 win at HC Sochi and a 3-0 home win over Torpedo. Its losses this season have come against Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, Admiral Vladivostok and Spartak Moscow by scores of 2-3, 2-4 and 2-3.

Karnaukhov’s recent stat lines include three shots on goal at Lada Togliatti and two penalty minutes at Amur Khabarovsk. He posted two assists, three shots and one hit in a game at Admiral Vladivostok. He also had an assist and two shots at Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod, an assist and one shot at HC Sochi, an assist and two shots against Admiral Vladivostok, and a goal and three shots against Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod.

Sam Anas is the player to watch for Dinamo Minsk. In its most recent game, a 5-4 win over Lada Togliatti, Anas had one goal, one assist and three shots on goal. Christopher Tierney had three assists, and Dmitry S. Kuzmin added two assists, four shots and two penalty minutes. Dinamo Minsk’s recent wins include victories over Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg and Sibir Novosibirsk. Its losses include games against Shanghai Dragons, Dynamo Moscow, Lada Togliatti and Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod, with overtime or shootout defeats to Dynamo Moscow, Shanghai Dragons and Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod.

Anas’s recent stat lines include a goal and an assist against Lada Togliatti. He recorded three shots on goal at Shanghai Dragons and had a goal and three shots at Lada Togliatti. He added two assists and two shots at Dynamo Moscow. He also had a goal and an assist against Shanghai Dragons and an assist, three shots and one hit against Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod.

CSKA has five road wins this season. Dinamo Minsk has three home wins. Minsk-Arena will host the contest.

Interstat’s game simulator projects a final score of CSKA 3, Dinamo Minsk 2.