KAZAN (Interstat) — Ak Bars will host Amur on Friday in a Kontinental Hockey League game at TatNeft Arena. Ak Bars enters the matchup with a 10-11 season record, while Amur is 10-9.

Amur will be the visiting team. Vitaly Abramov is the player to watch for Amur. He has four goals and three assists over his past nine games. In his most recent outing, a 2-1 loss at Dynamo Moscow, Abramov scored, recorded four shots on goal and took two penalty minutes. Oleg Li added four shots, two penalty minutes and one hit in that game. Earlier in the recent stretch, Abramov scored twice in a 3-0 win against Admiral Vladivostok and had two assists in a 5-2 win against Barys Astana. He also had four shots on goal in a 4-3 loss to Salavat Yulaev Ufa and a goal with four shots and two penalty minutes in a 2-1 loss to Spartak Moscow. Abramov recorded three shots on goal in a 1-0 win against Lada Togliatti, three shots and one hit in a 2-0 win at Traktor Chelyabinsk, four shots in a 2-1 win at Traktor Chelyabinsk and one assist in a 3-0 win at Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg.

Ak Bars will be the home team. Alexander Chmelevski is the player to watch for Ak Bars. He has one goal and one assist over his past nine games. In the most recent outing, a 4-0 loss to Avangard Omsk, Chmelevski had two shots on goal and one hit. Grigory Denisenko led Ak Bars with five shots and two hits in that game, and Alexei Byvaltsev had one shot and two penalty minutes. Chmelevski scored in a 2-1 win at Salavat Yulaev Ufa and had an assist in a 3-2 overtime win at Shanghai Dragons. He recorded four shots on goal in a 3-2 loss to HC Sochi, three shots in a loss to Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod, two shots at Dinamo Minsk, one shot against Severstal Cherepovets and three shots with two penalty minutes and a hit against Lokomotiv Yaroslavl.

Amur’s most recent result was a 2-1 loss at Dynamo Moscow. Ak Bars’ most recent result was a 4-0 home loss to Avangard Omsk. The teams will meet Friday at TatNeft Arena. Amur next visits Admiral, and Ak Bars next hosts SKA.

Interstat’s game simulator projects a final score of Ak Bars 3, Amur 2. Interstat’s ELO system projects Ak Bars with a 76.2 percent probability to win. The over/under for the game is 4.5.