Kontinental Hockey League
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The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) is an international professional ice hockey
league in Eurasia
founded in 2008. As of 2009, it is ranked as the strongest hockey league in Europe
.
The title of Champion of Russia
, regardless of which nation the club represents, and the Gagarin Cup
, named after the first man to reach space
and orbit the Earth
, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin
, are awarded annually to the league champion following a 16-team playoff
at the end of the regular season. Two teams from the KHL were guaranteed qualification into the sole Champions Hockey League
season, which was played between 2008–09
.
The league was formed in 2008, from a predecessor organization, the Russian Superleague
(RSL). The RSL, in turn, was a successor to the Soviet Championship League, which was founded in 1946 with only five teams. The KHL began its operations with 24 teams. After minor changes in the composition of the Russian teams and even a reduction to 23 teams in the 2010–11 season
, the league was scheduled to be back to 24 teams in the 2011–12 season
. However, following the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash
that claimed the lives of the entire team, the Yaroslavl club was forced to suspend its operations until the following year, and the KHL is currently a 23-team league, slated to increase for the 2012–13 season. Of the remaining KHL teams, 19 are based in the Russian Federation
and 4 more are located in Belarus
, Latvia
, Kazakhstan
and Slovakia
.
Russians constitute a large majority of the players in the KHL because of its origins as the Soviet and Russian national league. Players not from Russia represent a minority of 30% of the KHL players, and are mostly Eastern European (16.1%), Scandinavia
n (4.6%), and North American
(4.8%). In 2010–11, there were 670 players in the league.
Despite the word "Continental" traditionally being spelled with a C and not a K in the English language
, the KHL transliterates the word with a K to distinguish it from numerous leagues that are abbreviated as CHL, such as the Canadian Hockey League
and the Central Hockey League
.
Prior to the inaugural season, several KHL teams signed several players from the NHL. A dispute between the two leagues over some of these signings was supposed to have been resolved by an agreement signed on July 10, 2008, whereby each league would honor the contracts of the other, but the signing of Alexander Radulov
was made public one day after the agreement (though it was actually signed two days prior to the agreement taking effect), leading to an investigation by the International Ice Hockey Federation. On October 4, 2010, the conflict between the leagues was settled when both signed a new agreement to honor one another's contracts.
were Alexander Radulov
(80 pts), Patrick Thoresen
(65 pts), Roman Červenka
and Sergei Mozyakin
(61 pts each). The top goal scorers were Roman Červenka with 31, followed by Patrick Thoresen (29), Sergei Mozyakin (27), Ryan Vesce
(25) and Igor Grigorenko
with 24. The top plus-minus rating went to Alexei Morozov who was a +27. The top goaltenders (by wins) were Karri Rämö
(33), Petri Vehanen
(25), Dimitri Kotschnew (24), Dominik Hašek
(23) and Bernd Brückler
(22).
A player's nationality is for various reason sometimes ambiguous. For the table presented below, the nationality "is determined based on the last country that the player represented in international competition. If a player has never played for a national team, usually the country of birth is chosen as the player nationality, unless there is strong evidence indicating otherwise."
For players born in former Soviet republics, the situation is often more complex. Therefore, lists of players born in Latvia and born in Ukraine give case-by-case details for those players.
a - For further information, see: List of Latvians in the KHL
b - For further information, see: List of Ukrainians in the KHL
The eight top-ranked teams in each conference receive playoff berths. Within each conference quarterfinals, semifinals and finals are played before the conference winners play against each other for the Gagarin Cup
. The division winners are seeded first and second in their conference, based on their regular season record. All playoff rounds are played as best-of-seven series. In each round, the top seeded remaining team is paired with the lowest seeded team etc. This playoff structure is very similar to the current format of the NHL playoffs. In the playoffs, overtime periods last 20 minutes (or until a goal is scored). The number of overtime periods is not limited.
This playoff format does not allow the strongest teams to take the topmost positions in the KHL final standings when these teams are from the same conference. This is because the format makes the conferences equally represented in top two, four, eight and sixteen spots of the final standings, regardless of the relative strength of the conferences.
Higher rank within the entire league after the regular stage of the championship does not give home ice advantage for a Gagarin Cup finalist, when the team have lower seed within their conference, than their opponent from the other conference.
The second top seed before the play-offs within each conference, affecting home ice advantage, is given to a team that played only two games against the conference leader, even if scored less points than lower-seeded one or more teams, that played four games each against the conference leader.
and one each from Latvia
, Belarus
and Kazakhstan
. Winner of the regular season was Salavat Yulaev Ufa
with 129 points from 56 games. Top scorer was Atlant's Sergei Mozyakin
with 76 points (34 goals and 42 assists). The play-offs produced a major surprise as the 16th placed team, Avangard Omsk
defeated top seed Ufa in the first round. The first Gagarin Cup
was won by Ak Bars Kazan who defeated Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
in a seven game play-off final.
was replaced by Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
. The regular season was again won by Salavat Yulaev Ufa
with 129 points from 56 games. For this they were awarded the first Continental Cup
. Top-scorer, as in the previous season, was Sergei Mozyakin
with 66 points (27 goals and 39 assists). Ak Bars Kazan successfully defended their title by defeating Western conference winners HC MVD in a seven game play-off final.
dropped out of the league, and HC MVD was merged with Dynamo Moscow
to form UHC Dynamo
. This left 23 teams to play the 54-game regular season which was won by Avangard Omsk
with 118 points. The top scorer was Alexander Radulov
, setting a new KHL record with 80 points (20 goals and 60 assists). Salavat Yulaev Ufa
won the title by beating Western conference winners Atlant Moscow Oblast 4–1 in the play-off final series.
by admitting Lev Poprad
from Slovakia
. The start of the season was overshadowed by the Yaroslawl plane tragedy, where the entire Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
team (except for one coach who stayed behind in Yaroslavl) were killed. Three days later, Lokomotiv withdrew from the 2011–12 KHL season and the start of the season was postponed to 12 September.
Playoffs
Playoffs
* includes record of Dynamo Moscow
before the merger with HC MVD in 2010
title, regardless of the country the club represents. The team ranked first in the standings after the regular season, i.e. the winner of the regular season, is awarded the Continental Cup
. The winners of the conference finals
are awarded the Eastern Conference Champion Cup and the Western Conference Champion Cup .
The KHL presents annual awards to its most successful players. In 2010, a total of 20 trophies in various categories were awarded. Among the winners were Alexander Radulov
(regular season MVP), Ilya Nikulin
(play-off MVP) and Anatoli Nikontsev
(rookie of the year).
The KHL also awards the Lokomotiv Cup annually to the winner of the first game between the Gagarin Cup winner and the runner-up of the previous season. The Cup, originally known as the Opening Cup, was renamed in the wake of the plane crash that killed 36 Lokomotiv players and staff in 2011.
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
league in Eurasia
Eurasia
Eurasia is a continent or supercontinent comprising the traditional continents of Europe and Asia ; covering about 52,990,000 km2 or about 10.6% of the Earth's surface located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres...
founded in 2008. As of 2009, it is ranked as the strongest hockey league in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
.
The title of Champion of Russia
Russian Open Championship
The Russian Open Hockey Championship , also known as the Championship of Russia in ice hockey , is an annual ice hockey award and national title, bestowed by the Ice Hockey Federation of Russia to the professional hockey organization judged to have the best performing team in Russia.The Russian...
, regardless of which nation the club represents, and the Gagarin Cup
Gagarin Cup
The Gagarin Cup is the trophy presented to the winner of the Kontinental Hockey League playoffs, and is named after cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space...
, named after the first man to reach space
Outer space
Outer space is the void that exists between celestial bodies, including the Earth. It is not completely empty, but consists of a hard vacuum containing a low density of particles: predominantly a plasma of hydrogen and helium, as well as electromagnetic radiation, magnetic fields, and neutrinos....
and orbit the Earth
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets...
, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961....
, are awarded annually to the league champion following a 16-team playoff
Playoff
The playoffs, postseason, or finals of a sports league are a game or series of games played after the regular season by the top competitors, usually but not always with a single-elimination system, to determine the league champion or a similar accolade.In the U.S...
at the end of the regular season. Two teams from the KHL were guaranteed qualification into the sole Champions Hockey League
Champions Hockey League
The Champions Hockey League was a short-lived ice hockey league which was launched in 2008 by the International Ice Hockey Federation and only played in the 2008–09 season. Its creation coincided with the IIHF's 100th anniversary and replaced the IIHF European Champions Cup, the former competition...
season, which was played between 2008–09
2008–09 Champions Hockey League
-Group stage:The draw for the group stage took place on Friday, 25 April 2008 in Zurich, Switzerland. The twelve teams were drawn into groups of three. Each group played a double round-robin. If the games were decided after 60 minutes, the winner was awarded 3 points and the loser 0 points...
.
The league was formed in 2008, from a predecessor organization, the Russian Superleague
Russian Superleague
The Russian Superleague , commonly abbreviated as RSL, was the highest division of the main professional ice hockey league in Russia. It was considered the second best league in the world, after the National Hockey League of North America...
(RSL). The RSL, in turn, was a successor to the Soviet Championship League, which was founded in 1946 with only five teams. The KHL began its operations with 24 teams. After minor changes in the composition of the Russian teams and even a reduction to 23 teams in the 2010–11 season
2010–11 KHL season
The 2010–11 KHL season is the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011.The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and the new team that was created by merging last season's...
, the league was scheduled to be back to 24 teams in the 2011–12 season
2011–12 KHL season
The 2011–12 KHL season is the fourth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The regular season originally began on 7 September 2011 with the Opening Cup game, but because of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash, which killed all but one member of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team, the start of the...
. However, following the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash
The Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash occurred at 16:05 MT on Wednesday, 7 September 2011, when a Yak-Service Yakovlev Yak-42, carrying the players and coaching staff of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl professional ice hockey team, crashed near the Russian city of Yaroslavl...
that claimed the lives of the entire team, the Yaroslavl club was forced to suspend its operations until the following year, and the KHL is currently a 23-team league, slated to increase for the 2012–13 season. Of the remaining KHL teams, 19 are based in the Russian Federation
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
and 4 more are located in Belarus
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
, Latvia
Latvia
Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...
, Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...
and Slovakia
Slovakia
The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...
.
Russians constitute a large majority of the players in the KHL because of its origins as the Soviet and Russian national league. Players not from Russia represent a minority of 30% of the KHL players, and are mostly Eastern European (16.1%), Scandinavia
Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...
n (4.6%), and North American
North American
North American generally refers to an entity, people, group, or attribute of North America, especially of the United States and Canada together.-Culture:*North American English, a collective term used to describe American English and Canadian English...
(4.8%). In 2010–11, there were 670 players in the league.
Despite the word "Continental" traditionally being spelled with a C and not a K in the English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, the KHL transliterates the word with a K to distinguish it from numerous leagues that are abbreviated as CHL, such as the Canadian Hockey League
Canadian Hockey League
The Canadian Hockey League is an umbrella organization that represents the three Canadian-based major junior ice hockey leagues for players 16 to 20 years of age. The CHL was founded in 1975 as the Canadian Major Junior Hockey League, and is composed of its three member leagues, the Western Hockey...
and the Central Hockey League
Central Hockey League
The Central Hockey League is a mid-level professional hockey league, owned by Global Entertainment Corporation. Its current champions are the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs, which defeated the Colorado Eagles four games to three in the 2011 playoffs....
.
Players
Though now not as restrictive in maintaining an exclusively Russian composition of players and teams, Russian teams are still prevented from signing more than five foreign players and can suit up no more than four in any single game. Foreign goaltenders have an additional limit regarding total seasonal ice time.Prior to the inaugural season, several KHL teams signed several players from the NHL. A dispute between the two leagues over some of these signings was supposed to have been resolved by an agreement signed on July 10, 2008, whereby each league would honor the contracts of the other, but the signing of Alexander Radulov
Alexander Radulov
Alexander Valerievich Radulov is a Russian professional ice hockey player currently playing for Salavat Yulaev Ufa of the Kontinental Hockey League . Radulov is the KHL's all-time assist leader with 125 career assists...
was made public one day after the agreement (though it was actually signed two days prior to the agreement taking effect), leading to an investigation by the International Ice Hockey Federation. On October 4, 2010, the conflict between the leagues was settled when both signed a new agreement to honor one another's contracts.
Notable active players
The top four point scoring players in the 2010–11 season2010–11 KHL season
The 2010–11 KHL season is the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011.The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and the new team that was created by merging last season's...
were Alexander Radulov
Alexander Radulov
Alexander Valerievich Radulov is a Russian professional ice hockey player currently playing for Salavat Yulaev Ufa of the Kontinental Hockey League . Radulov is the KHL's all-time assist leader with 125 career assists...
(80 pts), Patrick Thoresen
Patrick Thoresen
Patrick Thoresen is a Norwegian professional ice hockey left winger who plays for SKA Saint Petersburg of the Kontinental Hockey League . He resides in Hamar, Norway, where he grew up, during the off season. He has a younger brother, Steffen who's also an ice hockey player...
(65 pts), Roman Červenka
Roman Červenka
Roman Červenka is a Czech professional ice hockey player who plays for Avangard Omsk of the Kontinental Hockey League ....
and Sergei Mozyakin
Sergei Mozyakin
Sergei Mozyakin is a Russian ice hockey winger who is currently plays for Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Kontinental Hockey League ....
(61 pts each). The top goal scorers were Roman Červenka with 31, followed by Patrick Thoresen (29), Sergei Mozyakin (27), Ryan Vesce
Ryan Vesce
Ryan Vesce is a professional ice hockey right winger. He currently plays for the Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod of the KHL. Undrafted, Vesce played hockey in college, then played professionally for leagues in North America and Europe....
(25) and Igor Grigorenko
Igor Grigorenko
Igor Grigorenko is a Russian professional ice hockey right winger currently playing for Ufa Salavat Yulayev in the Russian Elite League. He signed a one-year, entry-level contract with the Detroit Red Wings in the NHL in May, 2007, but was unable to make the team out of training camp...
with 24. The top plus-minus rating went to Alexei Morozov who was a +27. The top goaltenders (by wins) were Karri Rämö
Karri Rämö
Karri Rämö is a Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender currently with Avangard Omsk of the Kontinental Hockey League. His contract rights are owned by the Montreal Canadiens and he has also played for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League.-Playing career:Rämö was drafted by the...
(33), Petri Vehanen
Petri Vehanen
Petri Vehanen is a Finnish professional ice hockey Goaltender who currently plays for AK Bars Kazan in the Kontinental Hockey League KHL-SM-liiga career:...
(25), Dimitri Kotschnew (24), Dominik Hašek
Dominik Hašek
Dominik Hašek is a Czech ice hockey goaltender who is currently with HC Spartak Moscow of the KHL.In his 16-season National Hockey League career, he played for the Chicago Blackhawks, Buffalo Sabres, Detroit Red Wings, and the Ottawa Senators. During his years in Buffalo, he became one of the...
(23) and Bernd Brückler
Bernd Brückler
Bernd Brückler is an Austrian professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for HC Sibir Novosibirsk of the Kontinental Hockey League.- Draft :...
(22).
Nationalities of players
In the current season, players representing 13 nations have played at least one game in the KHL.A player's nationality is for various reason sometimes ambiguous. For the table presented below, the nationality "is determined based on the last country that the player represented in international competition. If a player has never played for a national team, usually the country of birth is chosen as the player nationality, unless there is strong evidence indicating otherwise."
For players born in former Soviet republics, the situation is often more complex. Therefore, lists of players born in Latvia and born in Ukraine give case-by-case details for those players.
| Country | 2008–09 2009–10 KHL season The 2009–10 KHL season was the second season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 10 September 2009 to 27 April 2010, with a break for the Olympic winter games from 8 February to 3 March... http://www.quanthockey.com/khl/nationality-totals/khl-players-2008-09-stats.html) |
Players active (2009–10 2009–10 KHL season The 2009–10 KHL season was the second season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 10 September 2009 to 27 April 2010, with a break for the Olympic winter games from 8 February to 3 March... http://www.quanthockey.com/khl/nationality-totals/khl-players-2009-10-stats.html) |
Players active (2010–11 2010–11 KHL season The 2010–11 KHL season is the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011.The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and the new team that was created by merging last season's... http://www.liveweb.archive.org/http://www.quanthockey.com/khl/nationality-totals/khl-players-20-11-stats.html) |
Players active (2011–12 2011–12 KHL season The 2011–12 KHL season is the fourth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The regular season originally began on 7 September 2011 with the Opening Cup game, but because of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash, which killed all but one member of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team, the start of the... ) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 RussiaRussia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects... (19 active teams) |
504 | 492 | 466 | 392 |
 Czech RepublicCzech Republic The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest.... |
29 | 28 | 31 | 34 |
 FinlandFinland Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside... |
5 | 14 | 16 | 27 |
 LatviaLatvia Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden... (1 team) |
27 | 25 | 26 | 26a |
 SlovakiaSlovakia The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south... (1 team) |
15 | 20 | 27 | 26 |
 CanadaCanada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean... |
28 | 24 | 25 | 25 |
 KazakhstanKazakhstan Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe... (1 team) |
35 | 30 | 31 | 23 |
 BelarusBelarus Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,... (1 team) |
30 | 28 | 19 | 19 |
 SwedenSweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund.... |
10 | 11 | 14 | 17 |
 United StatesUnited States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
9 | 5 | 7 | 6 |
 UkraineUkraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia... |
9 | 10 | 6 | 4b |
 GermanyGermany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate... |
1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
 NorwayNorway Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million... |
1 | 1 | 1 | |
 AustriaAustria Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the... |
1 | 1 | 1 | |
 DenmarkDenmark Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark... |
1 | |||
| TOTAL | - | - | - | 602 |
a - For further information, see: List of Latvians in the KHL
b - For further information, see: List of Ukrainians in the KHL
Season structure
During the regular season, each team plays 56 games: four games against each of the teams in their own division (for a total of 20 games) and two games against each of the other teams (for a total of 36 games).The eight top-ranked teams in each conference receive playoff berths. Within each conference quarterfinals, semifinals and finals are played before the conference winners play against each other for the Gagarin Cup
Gagarin Cup
The Gagarin Cup is the trophy presented to the winner of the Kontinental Hockey League playoffs, and is named after cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space...
. The division winners are seeded first and second in their conference, based on their regular season record. All playoff rounds are played as best-of-seven series. In each round, the top seeded remaining team is paired with the lowest seeded team etc. This playoff structure is very similar to the current format of the NHL playoffs. In the playoffs, overtime periods last 20 minutes (or until a goal is scored). The number of overtime periods is not limited.
This playoff format does not allow the strongest teams to take the topmost positions in the KHL final standings when these teams are from the same conference. This is because the format makes the conferences equally represented in top two, four, eight and sixteen spots of the final standings, regardless of the relative strength of the conferences.
Higher rank within the entire league after the regular stage of the championship does not give home ice advantage for a Gagarin Cup finalist, when the team have lower seed within their conference, than their opponent from the other conference.
The second top seed before the play-offs within each conference, affecting home ice advantage, is given to a team that played only two games against the conference leader, even if scored less points than lower-seeded one or more teams, that played four games each against the conference leader.
2008–09 season
The first KHL season began on 2 September 2008 with 24 teams: 21 from RussiaRussia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
and one each from Latvia
Latvia
Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...
, Belarus
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
and Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...
. Winner of the regular season was Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Salavat Yulaev is a professional ice hockey team based in Ufa in the Republic of Bashkortostan, a federal subject of the Russian Federation. They are members of the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey League, and were part of Group C of the 2008–09 Champions Hockey League.-History:The...
with 129 points from 56 games. Top scorer was Atlant's Sergei Mozyakin
Sergei Mozyakin
Sergei Mozyakin is a Russian ice hockey winger who is currently plays for Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Kontinental Hockey League ....
with 76 points (34 goals and 42 assists). The play-offs produced a major surprise as the 16th placed team, Avangard Omsk
Avangard Omsk
Avangard Omsk are a professional ice hockey team from Siberia based in the city of Omsk, Russia. They are members of the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.-Overview:...
defeated top seed Ufa in the first round. The first Gagarin Cup
Gagarin Cup
The Gagarin Cup is the trophy presented to the winner of the Kontinental Hockey League playoffs, and is named after cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space...
was won by Ak Bars Kazan who defeated Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Hockey Club Lokomotiv , also known as Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, is a Russian professional ice hockey team based in Yaroslavl. The name of the team is derived from its owner, Russian Railways, the national railroad operator....
in a seven game play-off final.
2009–10 season
The second season saw several organizational changes, most notably the introduction of the two conferences (East and West) and the re-alignment of the divisions according to geographical criteria to reduce travel distances. The number of teams remained the same, but Khimik VoskresenskKhimik Voskresensk (2005–)
Khimik Voskrenensk , also known as Moscow Hockey Club Khimik, is an ice hockey team based in Voskresensk, Moscow Oblast, Russia. The team plays its home games in the 4,500 seat Podmoskovie Sports Palace, which was previously known as the Khimik Sports Palace.This team is not to be confused HC...
was replaced by Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
Avtomobilist is a professional ice hockey team based in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. They replaced Khimik Voskresensk in the Kontinental Hockey League in 2009.-External links:...
. The regular season was again won by Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Salavat Yulaev is a professional ice hockey team based in Ufa in the Republic of Bashkortostan, a federal subject of the Russian Federation. They are members of the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey League, and were part of Group C of the 2008–09 Champions Hockey League.-History:The...
with 129 points from 56 games. For this they were awarded the first Continental Cup
Continental Cup (KHL)
The Continental Cup is the trophy presented to the winner of the regular season of the Kontinental Hockey League, i.e. the team with the most points at the end of the regular season. It was introduced during the second season of the competition. Earlier, the winner of the first season simply named...
. Top-scorer, as in the previous season, was Sergei Mozyakin
Sergei Mozyakin
Sergei Mozyakin is a Russian ice hockey winger who is currently plays for Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Kontinental Hockey League ....
with 66 points (27 goals and 39 assists). Ak Bars Kazan successfully defended their title by defeating Western conference winners HC MVD in a seven game play-off final.
2010–11 season
For the third KHL season, Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk entered the KHL, while Lada TogliattiHC Lada Togliatti
HC Lada is a Russian professional ice hockey team based in Togliatti, Russia. They were members of the Kharlamov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.Due to a lack of a satisfactory arena the KHL expelled the team...
dropped out of the league, and HC MVD was merged with Dynamo Moscow
HC Dynamo Moscow
HC Dynamo Moscow was a Russian professional ice hockey club based in Moscow. They were members of the Bobrov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League...
to form UHC Dynamo
UHC Dynamo
Unified Hockey Club Dynamo , or simply Dynamo Moscow, is a Russian professional ice hockey club based in Moscow. They are members of the Kontinental Hockey League. The team was created in 2010 after the merger of HC Dynamo and HC MVD...
. This left 23 teams to play the 54-game regular season which was won by Avangard Omsk
Avangard Omsk
Avangard Omsk are a professional ice hockey team from Siberia based in the city of Omsk, Russia. They are members of the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.-Overview:...
with 118 points. The top scorer was Alexander Radulov
Alexander Radulov
Alexander Valerievich Radulov is a Russian professional ice hockey player currently playing for Salavat Yulaev Ufa of the Kontinental Hockey League . Radulov is the KHL's all-time assist leader with 125 career assists...
, setting a new KHL record with 80 points (20 goals and 60 assists). Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Salavat Yulaev is a professional ice hockey team based in Ufa in the Republic of Bashkortostan, a federal subject of the Russian Federation. They are members of the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey League, and were part of Group C of the 2008–09 Champions Hockey League.-History:The...
won the title by beating Western conference winners Atlant Moscow Oblast 4–1 in the play-off final series.
2011–12 season
For its fourth season, the KHL expanded beyond the borders of the former Soviet UnionSoviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
by admitting Lev Poprad
Lev Poprad
Hockey Club Lev , also known as HC Lev Poprad, is a professional ice hockey team based in Poprad, Slovakia that plays in the Kontinental Hockey League .-History:...
from Slovakia
Slovakia
The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...
. The start of the season was overshadowed by the Yaroslawl plane tragedy, where the entire Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Hockey Club Lokomotiv , also known as Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, is a Russian professional ice hockey team based in Yaroslavl. The name of the team is derived from its owner, Russian Railways, the national railroad operator....
team (except for one coach who stayed behind in Yaroslavl) were killed. Three days later, Lokomotiv withdrew from the 2011–12 KHL season and the start of the season was postponed to 12 September.
Single season records
Regular season| Record | Name | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Points | 80 | Alexander Radulov Alexander Radulov Alexander Valerievich Radulov is a Russian professional ice hockey player currently playing for Salavat Yulaev Ufa of the Kontinental Hockey League . Radulov is the KHL's all-time assist leader with 125 career assists... (Ufa) |
2010–11 2010–11 KHL season The 2010–11 KHL season is the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011.The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and the new team that was created by merging last season's... |
| Goals | 35 | Jan Marek (Magnitogorsk) Pavel Brendl Pavel Brendl Pavel Brendl is a Czech professional ice hockey player currently playing for HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk of the KHL.-Playing career:... (N. Novgorod) Marcel HossaMarcel Hossa Marcel Hossa is a Slovak professional ice hockey player currently playing for Spartak Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League . His older brother Marián plays for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League .-Playing career:... (Riga) |
2008–09 2008–09 KHL season The 2008–09 KHL season was the inaugural season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It started on September 2, 2008, and finished on February 26, 2009... 2008–09 2008–09 KHL season The 2008–09 KHL season was the inaugural season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It started on September 2, 2008, and finished on February 26, 2009... 2009–10 2009–10 KHL season The 2009–10 KHL season was the second season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 10 September 2009 to 27 April 2010, with a break for the Olympic winter games from 8 February to 3 March... |
| Assists | 60 | Alexander Radulov Alexander Radulov Alexander Valerievich Radulov is a Russian professional ice hockey player currently playing for Salavat Yulaev Ufa of the Kontinental Hockey League . Radulov is the KHL's all-time assist leader with 125 career assists... (Ufa) |
2010–11 2010–11 KHL season The 2010–11 KHL season is the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011.The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and the new team that was created by merging last season's... |
| Shots on goal | 225 | Kevin Dallman Kevin Dallman Kevin Jonathan Dallman is a Canadian-Kazakhstani professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for and captains Barys Astana of the KHL.-Playing career:... (Astana) |
2010–11 2010–11 KHL season The 2010–11 KHL season is the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011.The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and the new team that was created by merging last season's... |
| Plus/minus | +45 | Patrick Thoresen Patrick Thoresen Patrick Thoresen is a Norwegian professional ice hockey left winger who plays for SKA Saint Petersburg of the Kontinental Hockey League . He resides in Hamar, Norway, where he grew up, during the off season. He has a younger brother, Steffen who's also an ice hockey player... (Ufa) |
2009–10 2009–10 KHL season The 2009–10 KHL season was the second season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 10 September 2009 to 27 April 2010, with a break for the Olympic winter games from 8 February to 3 March... |
| Penalty minutes | 374 | Darcy Verot Darcy Verot Darcy Verot is a Canadian ice hockey forward currently playing for HC CSKA Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League.... (Chekhov) |
2009–10 2009–10 KHL season The 2009–10 KHL season was the second season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 10 September 2009 to 27 April 2010, with a break for the Olympic winter games from 8 February to 3 March... |
| Wins (goaltender) | 33 | Karri Rämö Karri Rämö Karri Rämö is a Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender currently with Avangard Omsk of the Kontinental Hockey League. His contract rights are owned by the Montreal Canadiens and he has also played for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League.-Playing career:Rämö was drafted by the... (Omsk) |
2010–11 2010–11 KHL season The 2010–11 KHL season is the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011.The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and the new team that was created by merging last season's... |
| Shutouts | 9 | Robert Esche Robert Esche Robert L. Esche is an American professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for SCL Tigers of National League A.-Playing career:... (St. Petersburg) |
2008–09 2008–09 KHL season The 2008–09 KHL season was the inaugural season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It started on September 2, 2008, and finished on February 26, 2009... |
Playoffs
| Record | Name | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Points | 22 | Josef Vašíček Josef Vasicek Josef Vašíček was a Czech professional ice hockey player. Vasicek last played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League and died when the team's aircraft charter crashed on September 7, 2011... (Yaroslavl) |
2010–11 2010–11 KHL season The 2010–11 KHL season is the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011.The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and the new team that was created by merging last season's... |
| Goals | 10 | Gleb Klimenko Gleb Klimenko Gleb Klimenko is a Russian professional ice hockey winger who currently plays for SKA Saint Petersburg of the Kontinental Hockey League .- Links :... (Magnitogorsk) |
2010–11 2010–11 KHL season The 2010–11 KHL season is the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011.The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and the new team that was created by merging last season's... |
| Assists | 15 | Josef Vašíček Josef Vasicek Josef Vašíček was a Czech professional ice hockey player. Vasicek last played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League and died when the team's aircraft charter crashed on September 7, 2011... (Yaroslavl) Pavol DemitraPavol Demitra Pavol Demitra was a Slovak professional ice hockey player. He played sixteen seasons in the National Hockey League , two in the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League /Slovak Extraliga and one in the Kontinental Hockey League . Known as an offensive player, Demitra was a first- or second-line... (Yaroslavl) Patrick ThoresenPatrick Thoresen Patrick Thoresen is a Norwegian professional ice hockey left winger who plays for SKA Saint Petersburg of the Kontinental Hockey League . He resides in Hamar, Norway, where he grew up, during the off season. He has a younger brother, Steffen who's also an ice hockey player... (Ufa) Alexander RadulovAlexander Radulov Alexander Valerievich Radulov is a Russian professional ice hockey player currently playing for Salavat Yulaev Ufa of the Kontinental Hockey League . Radulov is the KHL's all-time assist leader with 125 career assists... (Ufa) |
2010–11 2010–11 KHL season The 2010–11 KHL season is the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011.The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and the new team that was created by merging last season's... 2010–11 2010–11 KHL season The 2010–11 KHL season is the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011.The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and the new team that was created by merging last season's... 2010–11 2010–11 KHL season The 2010–11 KHL season is the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011.The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and the new team that was created by merging last season's... 2010–11 2010–11 KHL season The 2010–11 KHL season is the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011.The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and the new team that was created by merging last season's... |
| Shots on goal | 77 | Sergey Mozyakin (Mytishchi) |
2010–11 2010–11 KHL season The 2010–11 KHL season is the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011.The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and the new team that was created by merging last season's... |
| Plus/minus | +15 | Josef Vašíček Josef Vasicek Josef Vašíček was a Czech professional ice hockey player. Vasicek last played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League and died when the team's aircraft charter crashed on September 7, 2011... (Yaroslavl) |
2009–10 2009–10 KHL season The 2009–10 KHL season was the second season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 10 September 2009 to 27 April 2010, with a break for the Olympic winter games from 8 February to 3 March... |
| Penalty minutes | 69 | Grigori Panin Grigori Panin Grigori Panin is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for Ak Bars Kazan of the Kontinental Hockey League .-External links:*... (Kazan) |
2008–09 2008–09 KHL season The 2008–09 KHL season was the inaugural season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It started on September 2, 2008, and finished on February 26, 2009... |
| Wins (goaltender) | 15 | Petri Vehanen Petri Vehanen Petri Vehanen is a Finnish professional ice hockey Goaltender who currently plays for AK Bars Kazan in the Kontinental Hockey League KHL-SM-liiga career:... (Kazan) Erik ErsbergErik Ersberg Erik Ersberg is a Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender, currently with the Salavat Yulaev of the Kontinental Hockey League.- Playing career :... (Ufa) |
2009–10 2009–10 KHL season The 2009–10 KHL season was the second season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 10 September 2009 to 27 April 2010, with a break for the Olympic winter games from 8 February to 3 March... 2010–11 2010–11 KHL season The 2010–11 KHL season is the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011.The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and the new team that was created by merging last season's... |
| Shutouts | 9 | Georgi Gelashvili Georgi Gelashvili Georgi Kakoyevich Gelashvili is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Kontinental Hockey League.-External links:... (Yaroslavl) |
2008–09 2008–09 KHL season The 2008–09 KHL season was the inaugural season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It started on September 2, 2008, and finished on February 26, 2009... |
Career records
Regular season| Record | Name | Years | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Points | 203 | Sergei Mozyakin Sergei Mozyakin Sergei Mozyakin is a Russian ice hockey winger who is currently plays for Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Kontinental Hockey League .... (Mytishchi) |
2008–2011 |
| Goals | 88 | Sergei Mozyakin Sergei Mozyakin Sergei Mozyakin is a Russian ice hockey winger who is currently plays for Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Kontinental Hockey League .... (Mytishchi) |
2008–2011 |
| Assists | 125 | Alexander Radulov Alexander Radulov Alexander Valerievich Radulov is a Russian professional ice hockey player currently playing for Salavat Yulaev Ufa of the Kontinental Hockey League . Radulov is the KHL's all-time assist leader with 125 career assists... (Ufa) |
2008–2011 |
| Plus/minus | +97 | Alexander Radulov Alexander Radulov Alexander Valerievich Radulov is a Russian professional ice hockey player currently playing for Salavat Yulaev Ufa of the Kontinental Hockey League . Radulov is the KHL's all-time assist leader with 125 career assists... (Ufa) |
2008–2011 |
| Penalty minutes | 724 | Darcy Verot Darcy Verot Darcy Verot is a Canadian ice hockey forward currently playing for HC CSKA Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League.... (Chekhov) |
2008–2011 |
| Wins (goaltender) | 65 | Georgi Gelashvili Georgi Gelashvili Georgi Kakoyevich Gelashvili is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Kontinental Hockey League.-External links:... (Yaroslavl, Magnitogorsk) |
2008–2011 |
| Shutouts | 18 | Vasily Koshechkin (Togliatti, Magnitogorsk, Cherepovets) |
2008–2011 |
Playoffs
| Record | Name | Years | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Points | 50 | Josef Vašíček Josef Vasicek Josef Vašíček was a Czech professional ice hockey player. Vasicek last played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League and died when the team's aircraft charter crashed on September 7, 2011... (Yarolslavl) |
2008–2011 |
| Goals | 19 | Alexander Galimov Alexander Galimov Alexander Saidgereyevich Galimov was a Russian professional ice hockey player. At the time of his death, he was a member of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League .-Playing career:... (Yaroslavl) |
2008–2011 |
| Assists | 32 | Josef Vašíček Josef Vasicek Josef Vašíček was a Czech professional ice hockey player. Vasicek last played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League and died when the team's aircraft charter crashed on September 7, 2011... (Yarolslavl) |
2008–2011 |
| Plus/minus | +24 | Josef Vašíček Josef Vasicek Josef Vašíček was a Czech professional ice hockey player. Vasicek last played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League and died when the team's aircraft charter crashed on September 7, 2011... (Yarolslavl) |
2008–2011 |
| Penalty minutes | 101 | Grigori Panin Grigori Panin Grigori Panin is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for Ak Bars Kazan of the Kontinental Hockey League .-External links:*... (Kazan) |
2008–2011 |
| Wins (goaltender) | 34 | Georgi Gelashvili Georgi Gelashvili Georgi Kakoyevich Gelashvili is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Kontinental Hockey League.-External links:... (Yaroslavl, Magnitogorsk) |
2008–2011 |
| Shutouts | 7 | Georgi Gelashvili Georgi Gelashvili Georgi Kakoyevich Gelashvili is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Kontinental Hockey League.-External links:... (Yaroslavl, Magnitogorsk) |
2008–2011 |
All-time team records
Since its foundation in 2008, 26 clubs have played in the KHL. Only three of the current teams have not yet played in the play-offs. The table gives the final regular-season ranks for all teams, with the play-off performance encoded in colors.| Club | 2009 2008–09 KHL season The 2008–09 KHL season was the inaugural season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It started on September 2, 2008, and finished on February 26, 2009... |
2010 2009–10 KHL season The 2009–10 KHL season was the second season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 10 September 2009 to 27 April 2010, with a break for the Olympic winter games from 8 February to 3 March... |
2011 2010–11 KHL season The 2010–11 KHL season is the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011.The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and the new team that was created by merging last season's... |
2012 2011–12 KHL season The 2011–12 KHL season is the fourth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The regular season originally began on 7 September 2011 with the Opening Cup game, but because of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash, which killed all but one member of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team, the start of the... |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ak Bars Kazan | 2 | 8 | 4 | |
| Salavat Yulaev Ufa Salavat Yulaev Ufa Salavat Yulaev is a professional ice hockey team based in Ufa in the Republic of Bashkortostan, a federal subject of the Russian Federation. They are members of the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey League, and were part of Group C of the 2008–09 Champions Hockey League.-History:The... |
1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Hockey Club Lokomotiv , also known as Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, is a Russian professional ice hockey team based in Yaroslavl. The name of the team is derived from its owner, Russian Railways, the national railroad operator.... |
3 | 7 | 3 | |
| Atlant Moscow Oblast | 5 | 6 | 8 | |
| Metallurg Magnitogorsk Metallurg Magnitogorsk Metallurg Magnitogorsk is a professional ice hockey team based in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. They are members of the Kharlamov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League... |
6 | 3 | 5 | |
| HC MVD | 18 | 4 | ||
| UHC Dynamo UHC Dynamo Unified Hockey Club Dynamo , or simply Dynamo Moscow, is a Russian professional ice hockey club based in Moscow. They are members of the Kontinental Hockey League. The team was created in 2010 after the merger of HC Dynamo and HC MVD... * |
7 | 5 | 6 | |
| HC Spartak Moscow HC Spartak Moscow HC Spartak is a professional ice hockey team based in Moscow, Russia. They are members of the Bobrov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League .-History:One of the sections of the Spartak Moscow sports club, HC Spartak Moscow was established in 1946... |
9 | 10 | 12 | |
| Avangard Omsk Avangard Omsk Avangard Omsk are a professional ice hockey team from Siberia based in the city of Omsk, Russia. They are members of the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.-Overview:... |
16 | 11 | 1 | |
| Dinamo Riga Dinamo Riga Dinamo Riga was an ice hockey club, based in Riga, Latvia. It was founded in 1946 and disestablished in 1995 as Pārdaugava Rīga.-History of Dinamo Riga:... |
10 | 13 | 13 | |
| HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk | 14 | 9 | 15 | |
| SKA Saint Petersburg SKA Saint Petersburg SKA Saint Petersburg is a Russian professional ice hockey club that plays in the Kontinental Hockey League. SKA is an abbreviation for "Sports Club of the Army"... |
8 | 2 | 7 | |
| HC CSKA Moscow HC CSKA Moscow HC CSKA Moscow is a Russian ice hockey club that plays in the Kontinental Hockey League. It is referred to in the West as "Central Red Army" or the "Red Army Team" for its past affiliation with the Soviet Army, popularly known as the Red Army... |
4 | 12 | 19 | |
| Barys Astana Barys Astana Hockey Club Barys is a professional ice hockey team based in Astana, Kazakhstan. They compete in the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.-History:... |
15 | 14 | 14 | |
| Traktor Chelyabinsk | 12 | 18 | 18 | |
| Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod is an ice hockey club in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. They are members of the Tarasov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League.... |
11 | 15 | 17 | |
| HC Lada Togliatti HC Lada Togliatti HC Lada is a Russian professional ice hockey team based in Togliatti, Russia. They were members of the Kharlamov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.Due to a lack of a satisfactory arena the KHL expelled the team... |
13 | 22 | ||
| Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg Avtomobilist is a professional ice hockey team based in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. They replaced Khimik Voskresensk in the Kontinental Hockey League in 2009.-External links:... |
19 | 20 | ||
| Severstal Cherepovets Severstal Cherepovets HC Severstal Cherepovets is a professional ice hockey team based in Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast, Russia. They are members of the Tarasov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League.-History:Founded in 1956, the club was originally known as Stroitel Cherepovets... |
17 | 16 | 9 | |
| Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk | 10 | |||
| HC Sibir Novosibirsk | 19 | 20 | 11 | |
| HC Dinamo Minsk HC Dinamo Minsk Dinamo Minsk is an ice hockey team based in Minsk, Belarus. They are members of the Tarasov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.Dinamo has qualified for the KHL playoffs only once, during the 2010-11 KHL season.... |
22 | 17 | 16 | |
| Vityaz Chekhov Vityaz Chekhov Hockey Club Vityaz is a professional ice hockey team based in Chekhov, Moscow, Russia. They are members of the Tarasov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League and are currently coached by former National Hockey League enforcer Andrei Nazarov... |
23 | 23 | 21 | |
| Amur Khabarovsk Amur Khabarovsk Amur Khabarovsk is a professional hockey team based in Khabarovsk, Russia playing in the Kontinental Hockey League... |
20 | 21 | 22 | |
| Metallurg Novokuznetsk Metallurg Novokuznetsk Metallurg Novokuznetsk is a professional ice hockey team from Siberia based in Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. They are members of the Chernyshev Division in the Kontinental Hockey League.-History:-Champions:... |
21 | 24 | 23 | |
| Khimik Voskresensk Khimik Voskresensk (2005–) Khimik Voskrenensk , also known as Moscow Hockey Club Khimik, is an ice hockey team based in Voskresensk, Moscow Oblast, Russia. The team plays its home games in the 4,500 seat Podmoskovie Sports Palace, which was previously known as the Khimik Sports Palace.This team is not to be confused HC... |
24 | |||
| Lev Poprad Lev Poprad Hockey Club Lev , also known as HC Lev Poprad, is a professional ice hockey team based in Poprad, Slovakia that plays in the Kontinental Hockey League .-History:... |
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| Color code | Result |
|---|---|
| Gold | Gagarin Cup Gagarin Cup The Gagarin Cup is the trophy presented to the winner of the Kontinental Hockey League playoffs, and is named after cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space... Winner |
| Silver | Runner-up Runner-up Runner-up is a term used to denote a participant which finishes in second place in any of a variety of competitive endeavors, most notably sporting events and beauty pageants; in the latter instance, the term is applied to more than one of the highest-ranked non-winning contestants, the... |
| Green | Conference finalist |
| Blue | Conference semi finalist |
| Purple | Qualified for play-offs |
| White | not qualified for play-offs |
* includes record of Dynamo Moscow
HC Dynamo Moscow
HC Dynamo Moscow was a Russian professional ice hockey club based in Moscow. They were members of the Bobrov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League...
before the merger with HC MVD in 2010
Trophies and awards
The winner of the play-off is awarded the Gagarin Cup, the KHL Champion title and the Russian ChampionRussian Open Championship
The Russian Open Hockey Championship , also known as the Championship of Russia in ice hockey , is an annual ice hockey award and national title, bestowed by the Ice Hockey Federation of Russia to the professional hockey organization judged to have the best performing team in Russia.The Russian...
title, regardless of the country the club represents. The team ranked first in the standings after the regular season, i.e. the winner of the regular season, is awarded the Continental Cup
Continental Cup (KHL)
The Continental Cup is the trophy presented to the winner of the regular season of the Kontinental Hockey League, i.e. the team with the most points at the end of the regular season. It was introduced during the second season of the competition. Earlier, the winner of the first season simply named...
. The winners of the conference finals
KHL Conference Finals
The Kontinental Hockey League Conference Finals are the Eastern Conference and Western Conference Championship series of the KHL. The Conference Finals are best-of-seven series. The two series are played after the first and second rounds of the playoffs and before the Gagarin Cup Finals. The final...
are awarded the Eastern Conference Champion Cup and the Western Conference Champion Cup .
The KHL presents annual awards to its most successful players. In 2010, a total of 20 trophies in various categories were awarded. Among the winners were Alexander Radulov
Alexander Radulov
Alexander Valerievich Radulov is a Russian professional ice hockey player currently playing for Salavat Yulaev Ufa of the Kontinental Hockey League . Radulov is the KHL's all-time assist leader with 125 career assists...
(regular season MVP), Ilya Nikulin
Ilya Nikulin
Ilya Vladimirovich Nikulin is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for Ak Bars Kazan of the Kontinental Hockey League . Nikulin was drafted by the Atlanta Thrashers in the second round, 31st overall in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft....
(play-off MVP) and Anatoli Nikontsev
Anatoli Nikontsev
Anatoly Nikontsev is a Russian professional ice hockey winger who currently plays for Spartak of the Kontinental Hockey League . In 2010, he won the Cherepanov Memorial Trophy, awarded to the rookie of the year in the KHL....
(rookie of the year).
The KHL also awards the Lokomotiv Cup annually to the winner of the first game between the Gagarin Cup winner and the runner-up of the previous season. The Cup, originally known as the Opening Cup, was renamed in the wake of the plane crash that killed 36 Lokomotiv players and staff in 2011.
See also
- Kontinental Hockey League All-Star GameKontinental Hockey League All-Star GameThe Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game is an exhibition ice hockey game that marks the midway point of the Kontinental Hockey League's regular season, with many of the league's star players playing against each other...
- Russian Major League
- Minor Hockey League
- Potential Kontinental Hockey League expansionPotential Kontinental Hockey League expansionThe potential of including addition franchises to the Kontinental Hockey League has been an ongoing topic since the league's inception. It has been reported that the league seeks to expand to 30 teams.-Proposed pan-European league:...
- Ice Hockey Federation of RussiaIce Hockey Federation of RussiaThe Ice Hockey Federation of Russia is the governing body overseeing ice hockey in Russia.- History :The federation was founded on November 12, 1991 as "Ice Hockey Federation of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic / Ice Hockey Federation of Russia" established during the existence of...
- Russian Elite Hockey Scoring ChampionRussian Elite Hockey Scoring ChampionThe following is a list of the annual point scoring champions of the top Russian ice hockey league of each era, from the Soviet Championship League to the current Kontinental Hockey League.-Soviet Championship:*1965-66 Anatoli Firsov*1966-67 Victor Polupanov...
- Russian Elite Hockey Goal Scoring ChampionRussian Elite Hockey Goal Scoring ChampionThe following is a list of the annual goal scoring champions of the top Russian ice hockey league of each era, from the Soviet Championship League to the current Kontinental Hockey League.-Soviet Championship:*1946–47 Anatoly Tarasov*1947–48 Vsevolod Bobrov...
- List of current KHL team rosters
- 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash