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Kontinental Hockey League

Current season, competition or edition: 2022–23 KHL season
Formerly	Russian Superleague (RSL)
Sport	Ice hockey
Founded	2008; 15 years ago
President	Alexei Morozov
Motto	Хоккей – наша игра! Хакей – наша гульня! Хоккей – біздің ойын! 曲棍球是我们的游戏！[1]
No. of teams	22
Country	Russia (19 teams) Belarus (1 team) Kazakhstan (1 team) China (1 team)
Most recent champion(s)	CSKA Moscow (2nd title)
Most titles	Ak Bars Kazan (3 titles)
TV partner(s)	KHL-TV (Russia (as part of the NTV Plus package), Russia and international through KHL’s website) Match TV (Russia) Belarus 5 (Belarus) Qazsport (Kazakhstan) CCTV-5+ (China)
Related competitions	Supreme Hockey League (VHL) Junior Hockey League (MHL)
Official website	www.khl.ru

The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL; Russian: Континентальная хоккейная лига (КХЛ), romanized: Kontinental’naya khokkeynaya liga) is an international professional ice hockey league founded in 2008. It comprises member clubs based in Russia (19), Belarus (1), Kazakhstan (1) and China (1) for a total of 22 clubs.

It was considered in 2015 to be the premier professional ice hockey league in Europe and Asia, and the second-strongest in the world behind North America’s National Hockey League.^[2][3] The KHL had in 2017 the highest total attendance in Europe with 5.32 million spectators in the regular season^[4] and third-highest average attendance in Europe with 6,121 spectators per game in the regular season.^[5] The Gagarin Cup is awarded annually to the league’s playoff champion at the end of each season. The title of Champion of Russia is given to the highest-ranked Russian team.^[6]

History[edit]

History[edit]

The league formed from the Russian Superleague (RSL) and the champion of the 2007–08 season of the second division, with 24 teams: 21 from Russia and one each from Belarus, Latvia, and Kazakhstan. The teams were divided into four divisions, based on the performance in previous seasons.^{[citation needed]}

The start of the fourth season was overshadowed by the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash on 7 September 2011 in which almost all members of the team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl lost their lives shortly after take-off for their flight to their season-opening game in Minsk. The Opening Cup game in Ufa, which was already underway when news of the disaster arrived, was suspended. In memory of the disaster, 7 September remained a day of mourning on which no KHL regular-season games took place,^[7] until after the 2017–18 KHL season. Journalist Vsevolod Kukushkin acted as the first press secretary for the league, after it evolved from the Superleague.^[8]

After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the National Hockey League suspended operation of its Memorandum of Understanding with the KHL.^[9] An NHL memo instructed NHL teams to «immediately cease all dealings [direct or indirect] with the KHL and KHL Clubs [and all representatives of both], as well as with player agents who are based in and continue to do business in Russia.»^[9]

Team changes[edit]

2009–2014[edit]

In the 2009–10 season, Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg joined the KHL and Khimik Voskresensk was transferred to a lower league. In the 2010–11 season, Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk joined the league.

After several attempts by teams from Central Europe and Scandinavia to join the KHL, expansion beyond the borders of the former Soviet Union was finally realized in 2011. Lev Poprad, a newly founded team based in Poprad, Slovakia was admitted to the league. But after only one season, Lev was replaced by a team of the same name, Lev Praha, from Prague, Czech Republic, while Slovan Bratislava from Bratislava, Slovakia and Ukraine’s Donbass from Donetsk joined the KHL as expansion teams for the 2012–13 season.^[10] Lev and Slovan qualified for the playoffs in their first KHL season.

In 2013, Medveščak from Zagreb, Croatia, previously playing in the Austrian Hockey League, and Russian expansion team Admiral Vladivostok joined the league, thus expanding the league even further.^[11] The league comprised 28 teams during the 2013–14 season, of which 21 were based in Russia and 7 located in the other countries.

In 2014, Finnish team Jokerit from Helsinki, Lada Togliatti (which previously played in the league), and newly created team HC Sochi joined the league.^[12] However, HC Donbass did not play in the league for the 2014–15 season, due to the Russian intervention in Ukraine, but had intended to rejoin later.^[13] Two other teams, Lev Praha and Spartak Moscow, also withdrew from the 2014–15 season due to financial problems.^[14][15]

2015–2019[edit]

Prior to the 2015–16 season, Atlant Moscow Oblast withdrew from the KHL due to financial issues, while Spartak Moscow returned after a one-year hiatus.^[16] The newly created Chinese club HC Kunlun Red Star from Beijing was admitted for the 2016–17 season.^[17]

Prior to the 2017–18 season, Medveščak Zagreb withdrew from the league to rejoin the Austrian league and Metallurg Novokuznetsk was sent down to the VHL.^[18]

After the end of the 2018–19 season, HC Slovan Bratislava withdrew from the KHL due to financial issues to rejoin the Slovak Tipsport Liga.^[19]

2020–present[edit]

On 24 February 2022, Jokerit announced the team would withdraw from the league for the remainder of the season, including the playoffs, due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[20] On 27 February 2022, Dinamo Riga announced that they too would withdraw for the same reasons.^[21]

Season structure[edit]

Since 2009, the league has been divided into East and West conferences. In the current season, both conferences include 12 teams divided into two divisions of 6 teams. Each team plays four games against each division opponent (20), three games against each non-division conference opponent (18), and two games against each non-conference opponent (24) for a total of 62 games.^[22]

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.^[23]

In the 2012–13 season, the Nadezhda Cup (Cup of Hope) was introduced, a consolation tournament for the teams who did not qualify for the playoffs. The winning team in the tournament wins the first overall pick in the KHL Junior Draft. The tournament is intended to extend the season and help maintain interest in hockey in the cities of these teams, and help players of national teams prepare for upcoming World Championships.^[24]

Teams[edit]

Division	Team	City	Arena	Capacity	Founded	Joined	Head Coach	Captain
Western Conference
Bobrov	SKA Saint Petersburg	Saint Petersburg	Ice Palace	12,300	1946	2008	Roman Rotenberg	Anton Burdasov
HC Sochi	Sochi	Bolshoy Ice Dome	12,000	2014	Andrei Nazarov	Nikita Tochitsky
Spartak Moscow	Moscow	Megasport Arena	12,126	1946	2008	Boris Mironov	Sergei Shirokov
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod	Nizhny Novgorod	Trade Union Sport Palace	5,500	1947	2008	Igor Larionov	Ziyat Paigin
HC Vityaz	Podolsk	Vityaz Ice Palace	5,500	1996	2008	Yuri Babenko	Fyodor Malykhin
Tarasov	CSKA Moscow	Moscow	CSKA Arena	12,100	1946	2008	Sergei Fedorov	Sergei Andronov
Dinamo Minsk	Minsk	Minsk-Arena	15,086	2004	2008	Craig Woodcroft	Dmitry Korobov
Dynamo Moscow	Moscow	VTB Arena	10,495	1946	2008	Alexei Kudashov	Vadim Shipachyov
Red Star Kunlun	Beijing (Mytishchi)	Mytishchi Arena[a]	7,000	2016	Ivano Zanatta	Brandon Yip
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	Yaroslavl	Arena 2000	9,070	1959	2008	Igor Nikitin	Alexei Marchenko
Severstal Cherepovets	Cherepovets	Ice Palace	5,583	1956	2008	Andrei Razin	Yegor Morozov
Eastern Conference
Kharlamov	Ak Bars Kazan	Kazan	TatNeft Arena	8,895	1956	2008	Dmitri Kvartalnov	Danis Zaripov
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg	Yekaterinburg	KRK Uralets	5,545	2006	2009	Nikolai Zavarukhin	Nikita Tryamkin
Metallurg Magnitogorsk	Magnitogorsk	Arena Metallurg	7,704	1950	2008	Ilya Vorobyov	Yegor Yakovlev
Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk	Nizhnekamsk	SCC Arena	5,500	1968	2008	Oleg Leontyev	Marat Khairullin
Traktor Chelyabinsk	Chelyabinsk	Traktor Ice Arena	7,500	1947	2008	Anvar Gatiyatulin	Sergei Kalinin
Chernyshev	Admiral Vladivostok	Vladivostok	Fetisov Arena	5,500	2013	Leonīds Tambijevs	Dmitry Lugin
Amur Khabarovsk	Khabarovsk	Platinum Arena	7,100	1966	2008	Mikhail Kravets	Michal Jordan
Avangard Omsk	Omsk	G-Drive Arena	12,000	1950	2008	Bob Hartley	Alexei Emelin
Barys Astana	Astana	Barys Arena	11,502	1999	2008	Yuri Mikhailis	Roman Starchenko
Salavat Yulaev Ufa	Ufa	Ufa Arena	8,070	1957	2008	Tomi Lämsä	Grigori Panin
Sibir Novosibirsk	Novosibirsk	Ice Sports Palace Sibir	7,420	1962	2008	Andrei Martemyanov	Yevgeni Chesalin

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Former KHL Teams[edit]

Name	City	Arena	Creation	Seasons
Khimik Voskressensk	Voskresensk	Podmoskovie Ice Palace	2005	2008–2009
HC MVD	Balashikha	Balashikha Arena	2004	2008–2010
Lev Poprad	Poprad	Poprad Ice Stadium	2010	2011–2012
HC Donbass	Donetsk	Druzhba Arena	2001	2012–2014
Lev Praha	Prague	Tipsport Arena	2012	2012–2014
Atlant Mytichtchi	Mytishchi	Mytishchi Arena	1953	2008–2015
Metallurg Novokuznetsk	Novokuznetsk	Kuznetsk Metallurgists Sports Palace	1949	2008–2017
Medveščak Zagreb	Zagreb	Dom Sportova	1961	2013–2017
Lada Togliatti	Togliatti	Volgar Sports Palace	1976	2008–2018
Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk	Khanty-Mansiysk	Arena Ugra	2006	2010–2018
Slovan Bratislava	Bratislava	Ondrej Nepela Arena	1921	2012–2019
Jokerit Helsinki	Helsinki	Hartwall Arena	1967	2014–2022
Dinamo Riga	Riga	Arena Riga	2008	2008–2022

Players[edit]

Though now not as restrictive in maintaining an exclusively Russian composition of players and teams, Russian teams are still not allowed to sign more than five foreign players, while non-Russian teams must have at least five players from their respective countries. Foreign goaltenders on Russian teams are subject to a limit regarding their total seasonal ice time.^[25]

Prior to the inaugural season, several KHL teams signed several players from the NHL.^[26] A dispute between the two leagues over some of these signings was supposed to have been resolved by an agreement signed on 10 July 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),^[27] leading to an investigation by the International Ice Hockey Federation.^[28] On 4 October 2010, the conflict between the leagues was settled when both signed a new agreement to honor one another’s contracts.^[29]

The league set up rules for the NHL lockout which lasted from 16 September 2012 to 12 January 2013. According to the special regulations, each KHL team was allowed to add up to three NHL players to its roster, with only one foreign player allowed.^[30] More than 40 NHL players, the majority of them Russians, played in the KHL during the lockout.

KHL players are represented by the Kontinental Hockey League Players’ Trade Union.^[31]

After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, some non-Russian players elected to leave their teams, at the risk of forfeiting their salaries. The departing players included former NHL forwards Markus Granlund, Nick Shore, Geoff Platt, Kenny Agostino, Teemu Hartikainen, Philip Larsen, Sakari Manninen, Harri Sateri, Jyrki Jokipakka, Joakim Nordstrom, Lucas Wallmark, and Juho Olkinuora.^[9][32]

Nationalities of players[edit]

This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (August 2021)

During the 2013–2014 season, players representing 16 nations played at least one game in the KHL.^[33] A player’s nationality is for various reasons 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».^[34] For players born in former Soviet republics, the situation is often more complex due to dual citizenship and naturalization. Therefore, a list of players born in Ukraine gives case-by-case details for some of those players. In some cases, players can change their nationality registration with the league on a year-by-year basis, and their nationality with the league may not match that of their International Ice Hockey Federation registration. Non-Russians represented about 30–35% of the KHL players and were mostly Central European, Nordic, and North American. In 2015–16, more than 950 players played in the league (see table below). Russian teams are limited to a maximum of 5 foreign players per squad.^[35]

Country (current number of teams)	Players active (2012–13)[36]	Players active (2013–14)[37]	Players active (2014–15)[38]	Players active (2015–16)[39]	Players active (2016–17)[40]	Players active (2017–18)[41]	Players active (2018–19)[42]	Players active (2019–20)[43]	Players active (2020–21)[44]
Austria	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	1
Belarus (1 team)	33	43	50	41	38	39	35	49	50
Belgium	–	–	–	–	1	–	–	–	–
Canada	32	63	51	35	53	51	58	60	47
China (1 team)	–	–	–	–	3	–	2	–	–
Croatia	1	4	4	4	6	2	1	–	–
Czech Republic	45	47	29	35	35	33	28	20	23
Denmark	–	1	2	4	3	5	6	4	3
Finland	40	37	51	48	51	42	45	46	54
France	–	–	1	1	2	–	3	1	1
Germany	1	2	2	1	–	–	–	2	3
Italy	–	–	–	2	2	–	–	–	–
Israel	–	–	–	–	–	1	–	–	–
Kazakhstan (1 team)	33	37	34	40	37	38	33	38	30
Latvia	35	34	29	34	33	33	29	35	34
Lithuania	–	–	–	–	–	2	1	1	–
Norway	3	3	3	1	–	1	–	–	–
Russia (19 teams)	569	599	613	657	678	661	596	586	659
Slovakia	53	44	32	28	28	24	24	6	6
Slovenia	–	2	4	4	4	4	3	–	–
South Korea	1	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Sweden	24	21	27	26	23	25	24	30	33
Switzerland	–	–	–	–	1	–	–	1	–
Ukrainea	12	17	2	2	4	2	–	–	–
United States	14	21	26	20	25	20	20	14	17
Total	896	976	960	983	1,027	983	908	893	961

• a – For further information, see: List of Ukrainians in the KHL

Trophies and awards[edit]

The winner of the playoff is awarded the Gagarin Cup. The highest placed Russian team is awarded the title of the Russian champion. The team ranked first in the standings after the regular season, i.e. the winner of the regular season, is awarded the Continental Cup^[45] (Russian: Кубок Континента, Kubok Kontinenta). The winners of the conference finals are awarded the Eastern Conference Champion Cup (Russian: Кубок Победителю конференции Восток, Kubok Pobeditelyu konferentsii Vostok) and the Western Conference Champion Cup (Russian: Кубок Победителю конференции Запад, Kubok Pobeditelyu konferentsii Zapad).^[46]

The KHL presents annual awards to its most successful players. The KHL also awards the Opening Cup annually to the winner of the first game between the Gagarin Cup winner and the runner-up of the previous season. On 10 September 2011, three days after the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash, the KHL head office decided to honor the deceased in the 2011 Opening Cup.^[47] The League gives the Andrey Starovoytov Award annually to its referees of the year, also called the «Golden Whistle».^[48]

Seasons overview[edit]

Season	Teams	Gagarin Cup Winner	Gagarin Cup finalist	Final score	Continental Cup Winner	Top scorer
2008–09	24	Ak Bars Kazan	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	4–3	Salavat Yulaev Ufa* (129 points)	Sergei Mozyakin (76 points: 34 G, 42 A)
2009–10	24	Ak Bars Kazan	HC MVD	4–3	Salavat Yulaev Ufa (129 points)	Sergei Mozyakin (66 points: 27 G, 39 A)
2010–11	23	Salavat Yulaev Ufa	Atlant Moscow Oblast	4–1	Avangard Omsk (118 points)	Alexander Radulov (80 points: 20 G, 60 A)
2011–12	23	Dynamo Moscow	Avangard Omsk	4–3	Traktor Chelyabinsk (114 points)	Alexander Radulov (63 points: 25 G, 38 A)
2012–13	26	Dynamo Moscow	Traktor Chelyabinsk	4–2	SKA Saint Petersburg (115 points)	Sergei Mozyakin (76 points: 35 G, 41 A)
2013–14	28	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	HC Lev Praha	4–3	Dynamo Moscow (115 points)	Sergei Mozyakin (73 points: 34 G, 39 A)
2014–15	28	SKA Saint Petersburg	Ak Bars Kazan	4–1	CSKA Moscow (139 points)	Alexander Radulov (71 points: 24 G, 47 A)
2015–16	28	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	CSKA Moscow	4–3	CSKA Moscow (127 points)	Sergei Mozyakin (67 points: 32 G, 35 A)
2016–17	29	SKA Saint Petersburg	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	4–1	CSKA Moscow (137 points)	Sergei Mozyakin (85 points: 48 G, 37 A)
2017–18	27	Ak Bars Kazan	CSKA Moscow	4–1	SKA Saint Petersburg (138 points)	Ilya Kovalchuk (63 points: 31 G, 32 A)
2018–19	25	CSKA Moscow	Avangard Omsk	4–0	CSKA Moscow (106 points)	Nikita Gusev (82 points: 17 G, 65 A)
2019–20	24	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic	CSKA Moscow (94 points)	Vadim Shipachyov (65 points: 17 G, 48 A)
2020–21	23	Avangard Omsk	CSKA Moscow	4–2	CSKA Moscow (91 points)	Vadim Shipachyov (66 points; 20 G, 46 A)
2021–22	24	CSKA Moscow	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	4–3	Not determined	Vadim Shipachyov (67 points: 24 G, 43 A)

*: In the first season, Salavat Yulaev Ufa was the winner of the regular season, but the Continental Cup was not yet awarded.

Season	Opening Cup Winner	Nadezhda Cup Winner	Priceless Player (MVP)
2008–09	Salavat Yulaev Ufa	Nadezhda Cup not yet introduced	Danis Zaripov
2009–10	Ak Bars Kazan	Alexander Radulov
2010–11	Dynamo Moscow	Alexander Radulov
2011–12	Salavat Yulaev Ufa	Alexander Radulov
2012–13	Dynamo Moscow	Dinamo Riga	Sergei Mozyakin
2013–14	Dynamo Moscow	Avangard Omsk	Sergei Mozyakin
2014–15	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	Cancelled due to economic reasons	Alexander Radulov
2015–16	CSKA Moscow	Not contested	Sergei Mozyakin
2016–17	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	Sergei Mozyakin
2017–18	SKA Saint Petersburg	Nikita Gusev
2018–19	SKA Saint Petersburg	Kirill Kaprizov
2019–20	Avangard Omsk	none

Statistics[edit]

Single season records[edit]

Regular season[edit]

^[49]

Record		Name	Season
Points	85	Sergei Mozyakin (Magnitogorsk)	2016–17
Goals	48	Sergei Mozyakin (Magnitogorsk)	2016–17
Assists	65	Nikita Gusev (SKA)	2018–19
Shots on goal	253	Darren Dietz (Barys)	2018–19
Plus/minus	+48	Vladislav Gavrikov (SKA)	2018–19
Penalty minutes	374	Darcy Verot (Chekhov)	2009–10
Wins	38	Jakub Kovář (Avtomobilist)	2018–19
Shutouts	13	Alexei Murygin (Yaroslavl)	2015–16

Playoffs[edit]

^[49]

Record		Name	Season
Points	33	Sergei Mozyakin (Magnitogorsk)	2013–14
Goals	15	Evgenii Dadonov (SKA)	2014–15
Danis Zaripov (Magnitogorsk)	2016–17
Assists	20	Sergei Mozyakin (Magnitogorsk)	2013–14
Chris Lee (Magnitogorsk)	2016–17
Shots on goal	82	Evgeny Kuznetsov (Chelyabinsk)	2012–13
Plus/minus	+16	Dominik Graňák (Dynamo Moscow)	2012–13
Chris Lee (Magnitogorsk)	2016–17
Penalty minutes	69	Maxim Goncharov (Ufa)	2015–16
Wins	16	Alexander Yeryomenko (Dynamo Moscow)	2011–12, 2012–13
Vasily Koshechkin (Magnitogorsk)	2013–14
Mikko Koskinen (SKA)	2014–15
Emil Garipov (Kazan)	2017–18
Ilya Sorokin (CSKA Moscow)	2018–19
Shutouts	7	Lars Johansson (CSKA Moscow)	2020–21

Career records[edit]

Regular season[edit]

^[49]

Record		Name	Years
Points	756	Sergei Mozyakin (Atlant, Magnitogorsk)	2008–2021
Goals	351	Sergei Mozyakin (Atlant, Magnitogorsk)	2008–2021
Assists	477	Vadim Shipachyov (Cherepovets, Saint Petersburg, Dynamo Moscow)	2008–2022
Games played	723	Yevgeny Biryukov (Ufa, Magnitogorsk)	2008–2022
Plus/minus	+201	Vadim Shipachyov (Cherepovets, Saint Petersburg, Dynamo Moscow)	2008–2022
Penalty minutes	1088	Evgeny Artyukhin (Saint Petersburg, Atlant, CSKA Moscow, Novosibirsk, Dynamo Moscow, Vityaz, Admiral, Neftekhimik)	2008–2022
Wins	281	Vasily Koshechkin (Togliatti, Magnitogorsk, Cherepovets)	2008–2022
Shutouts	73	Vasily Koshechkin (Togliatti, Magnitogorsk, Cherepovets)	2008–2022

Playoffs[edit]

^[49]

Record		Name	Years
Points	172	Sergei Mozyakin (Atlant, Magnitogorsk)	2008–2021
Goals	68	Sergei Mozyakin (Atlant, Magnitogorsk)	2008–2021
Assists	104	Sergei Mozyakin (Atlant, Magnitogorsk)	2008–2021
Games played	161	Yevgeny Biryukov (Magnitogorsk, Ufa)	2008–2021
Plus/minus	+52	Danis Zaripov (Kazan, Magnitogorsk)	2008–2021
Penalty minutes	312	Grigori Panin (Kazan, CSKA Moscow, Ufa)	2008–2021
Wins	71	Vasily Koshechkin (Togliatti, Magnitogorsk, Cherepovets)	2008–2021
Shutouts	16	Ilya Sorokin (CSKA Moscow)	2015–2020

KHL’s longest match[edit]

Match time	Date	Match	Home	Visitor	Result	Overtime goal scorer
142:09 mins	22 March 2018	5. Conference Semi-Finals	CSKA	Jokerit	1–2	Mika Niemi

All-time team records[edit]

Since its foundation in 2008, 35 different clubs have played in the KHL, with 32 having qualified for at least one postseason. Of the 24 founding teams, only Metallurg Novokuznetsk and Khimik Voskresensk had never qualified for the playoffs (both are no longer in the league). The table gives the final regular-season ranks for all teams, with the playoff performance encoded in colors. The teams are ordered by their best championship results.

 ^[a]: Includes record of Dynamo Moscow before the merger with HC MVD in 2010

 ^[b]: Did not participate in the 2011–12 season due to the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash of 7 September 2011, that killed the entire team

 ^[c]: Conference semifinals cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Attendance statistics[edit]

Total and average attendance by season, including play-offs:^[4]

Season	Total Attendance	Average Attendance
2008–09	3,886,948	6,233
2009–10	4,223,698	6,264
2010–11	4,293,271	6,944
2011–12	4,320,908	6,861
2012–13	4,775,086	6,912
2013–14	5,190,133	6,614
2014–15	6,066,093	7,405
2015–16	5,875,645	7,065
2016–17	5,892,889	7,210
2017–18	5,318,175	7,005
2018–19	5,644,804	7,544
2019–20	5,118,949	6,854

All-Star Game[edit]

The Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game is an exhibition game held annually at the midway point (usually January or February) of the season, with the league’s star players playing against each other. Previously played in a «Russian players versus the rest of the world» format, now it is Eastern versus Western Conference.

See also[edit]

• Ice Hockey Federation of Russia
• List of Soviet and Russian ice hockey champions
• List of Soviet and Russian ice hockey scoring champions
• List of Soviet and Russian ice hockey goal scoring champions
• List of current KHL team rosters

References[edit]

External links[edit]

Official KHL

• Official website
• Kontinental Hockey League on Facebook
• Kontinental Hockey League on Twitter
• Kontinental Hockey League on Twitter (in Russian)
• Kontinental Hockey League‘s channel on YouTube

Third party

• KHL vs NHL exhibition games official homepage
• KHL news and stats from Eurohockey
• Kontinental Hockey League Players’ Trade Union (in Russian)

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Перевод «КХЛ» на английский

KHL

CHL

NHL

HQ

HFG

KGO

HK

Kontinental Hockey League

NFL

После небольшого перерыва возобновляется регулярный чемпионат КХЛ.

After a short pause, the regular championship of the KHL is resumed.

Сегодня мы впервые заявили о необходимости создания профсоюза врачей КХЛ.

Today we spoke for the first time of the need to create a KHL doctors’ union.

Очередной сезон КХЛ официально завершился в минувшие выходные.

The NHL’s regular season officially ended this past weekend.

Следующая игра станет 400-й в КХЛ для защитника Игоря Головкова.

The next game will be the 400th in the NHL for defenseman Igor Golovkov’s assistance.

Естественно, молодые ребята без опыта игры в КХЛ редко добиваются успеха.

Of course younger players, without KHL experience, hardly will get any success.

Добавлю, что создание хоккейного клуба уровня КХЛ довольно-таки дорогое занятие.

I add that the creation of a hockey club at the KHL level is quite an expensive exercise.

Во второй раз в истории КХЛ матч был закончен досрочно.

For only the second time in KHL history a game has been finished ahead of time.

В сезоне 2011/2012 в системе КХЛ было взято 856 допинг-проб.

Over the course of the 2011/2012 season a total of 856 doping tests were conducted across the entire KHL system.

Тогда весь сезон я проведу в КХЛ.

Then I will spend the entire season in the KHL.

Если он хочет выступать в КХЛ — прекрасно.

If he wants to play in the KHL, that’s fine.

Каждый клуб КХЛ имеет право защитить двух игроков указанной возрастной категории, имеющих действующие контракты.

KHL clubs have the right to keep two players in the aforementioned age group and who have current contracts.

Официальный статус турнира КХЛ достаточно точно определяет наш формат.

Official status as a KHL tournament matches our own format very closely.

Отдельного внимания заслуживает матч всех звезд из КХЛ.

A match of all the KHL stars deserves special attention.

А средняя посещаемость в КХЛ снизилась до 4 тысяч болельщиков.

And the average attendance in the KHL has decreased to 4 thousand fans.

Результаты исследования будут представлены клубам 30 мая на ежегодном семинаре КХЛ по маркетингу и коммуникациям.

The full results of the survey will be shared with the clubs on May 30 in the KHL’s annual seminar on marketing and communication.

В пятницу издание обнародовало очередную порцию данных, касающихся платежных ведомостей клубов КХЛ.

On Friday, the publication unveiled another portion of data relating to the payrolls of the KHL clubs.

Согласно этому меморандуму, НХЛ признает стандартные контракты игроков КХЛ.

According to the memorandum, the NHL will recognize the standard contracts of KHL players.

Кто-то скажет, что иностранным новичкам в КХЛ приходится проще, чем российским.

Some might say that foreign newcomers to the KHL have it easier than the Russian arrivals.

Чемпионат КХЛ уходит на перерыв до З марта.

The KHL championship takes a rest until the 3rd of March.

Это делает победу фаворитов более вероятной в КХЛ, чем в НХЛ.

This makes a win for the favourites more probable in KHL than in NHL.

Ничего не найдено для этого значения.

Результатов: 1923. Точных совпадений: 1923. Затраченное время: 64 мс

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Kontinental Hockey League
2015–16 KHL season
Sport	Ice hockey
Founded	2008
CEO	Alexander Medvedev
Motto	Хоккей – наша игра! Khokkey — nasha igra! (Hockey is our game!)[1]
No. of teams	28
Country(ies)	Belarus (1 team) Croatia (1 team)  Finland (1 team)  Kazakhstan (1 team) Latvia (1 team)  Russia (22 teams)  Slovakia (1 team)
Most recent champion(s)	Metallurg Mednogorsk (2nd title)
Most championship(s)	Ak Bars Kazan (2) Dynamo Moscow (2) Metallurg Mednogorsk (2)
Official website	en.KHL.ru
Related competitions	Supreme Hockey League (VHL) Junior Hockey League (MHL)

The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) (Russian: Континентальная хоккейная лига, Kontinental’naya khokkeynaya liga) is an international professional ice hockey league in Eurasia founded in 2008. It is commonly considered to be the strongest hockey league in Europe, and the second-best in the world.

The league was formed in 2008, from a predecessor organization, the Russian Superleague (RSL). 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 for two seasons, the league expanded to 26 teams for the 2012–13 season: Lokomotiv Yaroslavl returned after missing last season due to the air disaster in 2011, Slovan Bratislava from Slovakia and HC Donbass from Donetsk, Ukraine joined the league, while Lev Poprad were replaced by Lev Praha, a team with the same name, but based in Prague, Czech Republic. Thus, for the first time, the league consists of 26 teams, of which 20 are based in Russia and 6 more are located in Belarus, Croatia, Finland, Latvia, Kazakhstan, and Slovakia.

The winner of the 16-team playoff after the end of the regular season is awarded the Gagarin Cup, named after the first man to reach space and orbit the Earth, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The title of Champion of Russia is given to the highest ranked Russian team.

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 33% of the KHL players, and are mostly Eastern European (17.0%), Scandinavian (7.7%), and North American (4.6%). In 2011–12, there were 701 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, and so that its abbreviation can look similar in both the Cyrillic and Roman alphabets.

Team changes[]

In season 2009-10 joined team Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg and Khimik Voskresensk was transferred to a lower league. Next season joined HC Yugra.

After several attempts by teams from Central Europe and Scandinavia to join the KHL, expansion beyond the borders of the former Soviet Union was finally realized in 2011. Lev Poprad, a newly founded team based in Poprad, Slovakia was admitted to the league. But after only one season, Lev was replaced by a team of the same name, Lev Praha, from Prague, Czech Republic, while Slovan Bratislava from Slovakia and Ukraine’s Donbass joined the KHL as expansion teams.^[2] Lev and Slovan managed to draw considerable public interest and qualified for the play-offs in their first KHL season.

In 2013 Medveščak from Croatia and Russian Admiral Vladivostok joined the league, thus expanding the league even further.^[3] The league comprised 28 teams during the 2013-14 season, of which 21 are based in Russia and 7 more are located in the other countries.

In 2014 Finnish team Jokerit from Helsinki, Lada Togliatti (which previously played in the league), and a newly created team named HC Sochi have joined the league.^[4] However, HC Donbass do not play in the league this season, due to the political instability in Ukraine, but intend to rejoin for the 2015–16 season.^[5] Two other teams, Lev Praha and Spartak Moscow, also withdrew from the 2014-2015 season due to financial problems.^[6][7]

Prior to the 2015–16 season, Atlant Moscow Oblast withdrew from the KHL and on the contrary Spartak Moscow is returning to the league.^[8]

The Chinese club HC Kunlun Red Star were admitted for the 2016–17 season.^[9]

Season structure[]

Since 2009, the league is divided into East and West conferences. In the current season, each conference includes 14 teams divided into two divisions, 7 teams per division. During the regular season, each team plays 60 games: four games against each team in their own division, two games against each of the remaining teams in the same conference, one game against each team of the other conference and 8 extra games against selected opponents.

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.[16] In the playoffs, overtime periods last 20 minutes (or until a goal is scored). The number of overtime periods is not limited.

In the 2012–13 season, the Nadezhda Cup (Cup of Hope) was introduced, a consolation tournament for the teams who did not qualify for the playoffs. The winning team in the tournament wins the first overall pick in the KHL Junior Draft. The tournament is intended to extend the season and help maintain interest in hockey in the cities of these teams, and help players of national teams prepare for upcoming World Championship.

Players[]

Though now not as restrictive in maintaining an exclusively Russian composition of players and teams, Russian teams are still not allowed to sign more than five foreign players, while non-Russian teams must have at least five players from their respective country. Foreign goaltenders on Russian teams have a limit regarding total seasonal ice time.

Prior to the inaugural season, several KHL teams signed several players from the NHL.[19] 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),[20] leading to an investigation by the International Ice Hockey Federation.[21] On October 4, 2010, the conflict between the leagues was settled when both signed a new agreement to honor one another’s contracts.

The league set up rules for the NHL lockout which lasted from 16 September 2012 to 12 January 2013. According to the special regulations, each KHL team was allowed to add up to three NHL players to its roster, among them at most one foreign player. More than 40 NHL players, the majority of them Russians, played in the KHL during the lockout.

KHL players are represented by the Kontinental Hockey League Players’ Trade Union.

History[]

Founding (2008)[]

The KHL was founded in 2008 with 24 teams, the 20 teams from the last season of the Russian Superleague as well as the champion of the 2007–08 season of the second division. In addition, one team each from Latvia, Belarus and Kazakhstan were included. The teams were divided into 4 divisions, based on the performance in previous seasons. The first season got under way on 2 September 2008 and ended in April 2009 with Ak Bars Kazan becoming the first ever winner of the Gagarin Cup.

Introduction of conferences (2009)[]

In an effort to reduce the large travel distances for the teams, the second season saw the introduction of two conferences (East and West) and the re-alignment of the divisions according to geographical criteria. Despite efforts to expand the league to Central and Western Europe, only minor changes in the compositions of the Russian teams happened in the first three seasons. In the Gagarin Cup finals, teams from the East dominated with Ak Bars Kazan winning twice and Salavat Yulaev Ufa once.

Yaroslavl air disaster (2011)[]

The start of the fourth season was overshadowed by the Yaroslavl air disaster on 7 September 2011 in which almost the entire team of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl was killed shortly after take-off for their flight to their season opening game in Minsk. The Opening Cup game in Ufa, which was already under way when news of the disaster arrived, was abandoned and the start of the season postponed by five days. Lokomotiv Yaroslavl was forced to withdraw from the KHL season, but later played part of the VHL season and returned to the KHL in 2012.

Expansion to Central Europe (2011 and 2012)[]

After several failed attempts of teams from Central Europe and Scandinavia to join the KHL, expansion beyond the borders of the former Soviet Union was finally realized in 2011. Lev Poprad, a newly founded team based in Poprad, Slovakia was admitted to the league. Lev failed to reach the play-offs, but managed to draw considerable interest and sold out many of their home matches. For the 2012–13 season, Lev is replaced by a team of the same name, Lev Praha, from Prague, Czech Republic, while Slovan Bratislava from Slovakia and Ukraine’s HC Donbass join the KHL.^[10]

Seasons overview[]

Season	Gagarin Cup Winner	Gagarin Cup finalist	Continental Cup Winner	Top scorer
2008–09	Ak Bars Kazan	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	Salavat Yulaev Ufa* (129 points)	Sergei Mozyakin (76 points: 34 G, 42 A)
2009–10	Ak Bars Kazan	HC MVD	Salavat Yulaev Ufa (129 points)	Sergei Mozyakin (66 points: 27 G, 39 A)
2010–11	Salavat Yulaev Ufa	Atlant Moscow Oblast	Avangard Omsk (118 points)	Alexander Radulov (80 points: 20 G, 60 A)
2011–12	Dynamo Moscow	Avangard Omsk	Traktor Chelyabinsk (114 points)	Alexander Radulov (63 points: 25 G, 38 A)
2012–13	Dynamo Moscow	Traktor Chelyabinsk	SKA Saint Petersburg (115 points)	Sergei Mozyakin (76 points: 35 G, 41 A)
2013–14	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	HC Lev Praha	Dynamo Moscow (115 points)	Sergei Mozyakin (73 points: 34 G, 39 A)
2014–15	SKA Saint Petersburg	Ak Bars Kazan	CSKA Moscow (139 points)	Alexander Radulov (71 points: 24 G, 47 A)
2015–16	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	CSKA Moscow	CSKA Moscow (127 points)	Sergei Mozyakin (67 points: 32 G, 35 A)

*: In the first season, Salavat Yulaev Ufa was the winner of the regular season, but the Continental Cup was not yet awarded.

Trophies and awards[]

The winner of the playoff is awarded the Gagarin Cup, the KHL Champion title and the Russian Champion 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^[11] (Russian: Кубок Континента, Kubok Kontinenta). The winners of the conference finals are awarded the Eastern Conference Champion Cup (Russian: Кубок Победителю конференции Восток, Kubok Pobeditelyu konferentsii Vostok) and the Western Conference Champion Cup (Russian: Кубок Победителю конференции Запад, Kubok Pobeditelyu konferentsii Zapad).^[12]

The KHL also awards the Opening Cup annually to the winner of the first game between the Gagarin Cup winner and the runner-up of the previous season. On September 10, 2011, three days after the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster, the KHL head office decided to honor the deceased in the 2011 Opening Cup.^[13]

Season	Opening Cup Winner	Nadezhda Cup Winner	Gold Stick Award (MVP)
2008–09	Salavat Yulaev Ufa	not contested	Danis Zaripov
2009–10	Ak Bars Kazan	Alexander Radulov
2010–11	Dynamo Moscow	Alexander Radulov
2011–12	Salavat Yulaev Ufa	Alexander Radulov
2012–13	Dynamo Moscow	Dinamo Riga	Sergei Mozyakin
2013–14	Dynamo Moscow	Avangard Omsk	Sergei Mozyakin
2014–15	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	Cancelled due to economic reasons	Alexander Radulov
2015–16	CSKA Moscow	Not contested	Sergei Mozyakin

All-time team records[]

Since its foundation in 2008, 34 different clubs have played in the KHL, and 30 of them have at least once qualified for the playoffs. Of the current 28 teams, only two have not yet played in the playoffs. The table gives the final regular-season ranks for all teams, with the playoff performance encoded in colors. The teams are ordered by their championship results.

Club 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Ak Bars Kazan 2 8 4 6 2 4 4 12 Metallurg Magnitogorsk 6 3 5 4 7 2 6 8 Dynamo Moscow[a] 7 5 6 3 4 1 3 6 Salavat Yulaev Ufa 1 1 2 8 9 8 14 9 SKA Saint Petersburg 8 2 7 2 1 3 2 10 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl[b] 3 7 3 8 15 10 2 CSKA Moscow 4 12 19 18 6 12 1 1 Traktor Chelyabinsk 12 18 18 1 5 19 15 19 Avangard Omsk 16 11 1 5 3 20 8 5 Atlant Moscow Oblast 5 6 8 9 17 17 16 Lev Praha 15 5 HC MVD Balashikha 18 4 Sibir Novosibirsk 19 20 11 20 12 13 7 7 Jokerit Helsinki 5 3 Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 14 9 15 17 14 25 22 16 Donbass Donetsk 18 6 Spartak Moscow 9 10 12 19 23 23 21 Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod 11 15 17 7 20 9 12 11 Barys Astana 15 14 14 10 10 7 11 17 Dinamo Riga 10 13 13 15 24 10 21 22 Severstal Cherepovets 17 16 9 11 11 18 17 27 Dinamo Minsk 22 17 16 13 19 26 9 18 Sochi 13 4 Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk 10 14 16 22 25 23 Amur Khabarovsk 20 21 22 12 25 28 28 25 Slovan Bratislava 13 21 26 15 Admiral Vladivostok 16 19 13 Medveščak Zagreb 11 23 20 Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg 19 20 22 26 14 18 14 Lada Togliatti 13 22 24 26 Metallurg Novokuznetsk 21 24 23 16 21 27 27 28 Vityaz Chekhov 23 23 21 23 22 24 20 24 Lev Poprad 21 Khimik Voskresensk 24 Kunlun Red Star Beijing

Color Result Red Gagarin Cup Winner Yellow Runner-up Green Conference finalist Light Blue Conference semifinalist Blue Qualified for playoffs Purple Nadezhda Cup Winner Light Gray Not qualified for playoffs Gray Did not play in the season

 ^[a]: Includes record of Dynamo Moscow before the merger with HC MVD in 2010

 ^[b]: Did not participate in the 2011-12 season due to the deadly air disaster on September 7, 2011, that killed the entire team

References[]

External links[]

• www.khl.ru — Official homepage. (Russian language)
• en.khl.ru — Official homepage. (English language)
• Official KHL Store
• KHL All Stars Game
• KHL vs NHL exhibition games official homepage
• KHL news and stats from Eurohockey
• Kontinental Hockey League Players’ Trade Union

European Ice Hockey Leagues

International leagues Alps Hockey League — Balkan Ice Hockey League — BeNe League — Kontinental Hockey League — MOL Liga National leagues Armenia — Austria — Belarus — Belgium — Bosnia and Herzegovina — Bulgaria — Croatia — Czech Republic — Denmark — Estonia — Finland — France — Georgia — Germany — Greece — Hungary — Iceland — Italy — Kazakhstan — Latvia — Lithuania — Luxembourg — Macedonia — Netherlands — Norway — Poland — Romania — Serbia — Slovakia — Slovenia — Spain — Sweden — Switzerland — Turkey — Ukraine — United Kingdom Defunct leagues Soviet Union — Russia — Czechoslovakia — Yugoslavia — West Germany — East Germany — Ireland — Luxembourg — Malta — Portugal — Alpenliga — Interliga — Inter-National League — North Sea Cup — Panonian League — Eastern European — Balkan League — Baltic League — Carpathian League — Slohokej Liga

Kontinental Hockey League
2015–16 KHL season
Sport	Ice hockey
Founded	2008
CEO	Alexander Medvedev
Motto	Хоккей – наша игра! Khokkey — nasha igra! (Hockey is our game!)[1]
No. of teams	28
Country(ies)	Belarus (1 team) Croatia (1 team)  Finland (1 team)  Kazakhstan (1 team) Latvia (1 team)  Russia (22 teams)  Slovakia (1 team)
Most recent champion(s)	Metallurg Mednogorsk (2nd title)
Most championship(s)	Ak Bars Kazan (2) Dynamo Moscow (2) Metallurg Mednogorsk (2)
Official website	en.KHL.ru
Related competitions	Supreme Hockey League (VHL) Junior Hockey League (MHL)

The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) (Russian: Континентальная хоккейная лига, Kontinental’naya khokkeynaya liga) is an international professional ice hockey league in Eurasia founded in 2008. It is commonly considered to be the strongest hockey league in Europe, and the second-best in the world.

The league was formed in 2008, from a predecessor organization, the Russian Superleague (RSL). 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 for two seasons, the league expanded to 26 teams for the 2012–13 season: Lokomotiv Yaroslavl returned after missing last season due to the air disaster in 2011, Slovan Bratislava from Slovakia and HC Donbass from Donetsk, Ukraine joined the league, while Lev Poprad were replaced by Lev Praha, a team with the same name, but based in Prague, Czech Republic. Thus, for the first time, the league consists of 26 teams, of which 20 are based in Russia and 6 more are located in Belarus, Croatia, Finland, Latvia, Kazakhstan, and Slovakia.

The winner of the 16-team playoff after the end of the regular season is awarded the Gagarin Cup, named after the first man to reach space and orbit the Earth, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The title of Champion of Russia is given to the highest ranked Russian team.

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 33% of the KHL players, and are mostly Eastern European (17.0%), Scandinavian (7.7%), and North American (4.6%). In 2011–12, there were 701 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, and so that its abbreviation can look similar in both the Cyrillic and Roman alphabets.

Team changes[]

In season 2009-10 joined team Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg and Khimik Voskresensk was transferred to a lower league. Next season joined HC Yugra.

After several attempts by teams from Central Europe and Scandinavia to join the KHL, expansion beyond the borders of the former Soviet Union was finally realized in 2011. Lev Poprad, a newly founded team based in Poprad, Slovakia was admitted to the league. But after only one season, Lev was replaced by a team of the same name, Lev Praha, from Prague, Czech Republic, while Slovan Bratislava from Slovakia and Ukraine’s Donbass joined the KHL as expansion teams.^[2] Lev and Slovan managed to draw considerable public interest and qualified for the play-offs in their first KHL season.

In 2013 Medveščak from Croatia and Russian Admiral Vladivostok joined the league, thus expanding the league even further.^[3] The league comprised 28 teams during the 2013-14 season, of which 21 are based in Russia and 7 more are located in the other countries.

In 2014 Finnish team Jokerit from Helsinki, Lada Togliatti (which previously played in the league), and a newly created team named HC Sochi have joined the league.^[4] However, HC Donbass do not play in the league this season, due to the political instability in Ukraine, but intend to rejoin for the 2015–16 season.^[5] Two other teams, Lev Praha and Spartak Moscow, also withdrew from the 2014-2015 season due to financial problems.^[6][7]

Prior to the 2015–16 season, Atlant Moscow Oblast withdrew from the KHL and on the contrary Spartak Moscow is returning to the league.^[8]

The Chinese club HC Kunlun Red Star were admitted for the 2016–17 season.^[9]

Season structure[]

Since 2009, the league is divided into East and West conferences. In the current season, each conference includes 14 teams divided into two divisions, 7 teams per division. During the regular season, each team plays 60 games: four games against each team in their own division, two games against each of the remaining teams in the same conference, one game against each team of the other conference and 8 extra games against selected opponents.

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.[16] In the playoffs, overtime periods last 20 minutes (or until a goal is scored). The number of overtime periods is not limited.

In the 2012–13 season, the Nadezhda Cup (Cup of Hope) was introduced, a consolation tournament for the teams who did not qualify for the playoffs. The winning team in the tournament wins the first overall pick in the KHL Junior Draft. The tournament is intended to extend the season and help maintain interest in hockey in the cities of these teams, and help players of national teams prepare for upcoming World Championship.

Players[]

Though now not as restrictive in maintaining an exclusively Russian composition of players and teams, Russian teams are still not allowed to sign more than five foreign players, while non-Russian teams must have at least five players from their respective country. Foreign goaltenders on Russian teams have a limit regarding total seasonal ice time.

Prior to the inaugural season, several KHL teams signed several players from the NHL.[19] 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),[20] leading to an investigation by the International Ice Hockey Federation.[21] On October 4, 2010, the conflict between the leagues was settled when both signed a new agreement to honor one another’s contracts.

The league set up rules for the NHL lockout which lasted from 16 September 2012 to 12 January 2013. According to the special regulations, each KHL team was allowed to add up to three NHL players to its roster, among them at most one foreign player. More than 40 NHL players, the majority of them Russians, played in the KHL during the lockout.

KHL players are represented by the Kontinental Hockey League Players’ Trade Union.

History[]

Founding (2008)[]

The KHL was founded in 2008 with 24 teams, the 20 teams from the last season of the Russian Superleague as well as the champion of the 2007–08 season of the second division. In addition, one team each from Latvia, Belarus and Kazakhstan were included. The teams were divided into 4 divisions, based on the performance in previous seasons. The first season got under way on 2 September 2008 and ended in April 2009 with Ak Bars Kazan becoming the first ever winner of the Gagarin Cup.

Introduction of conferences (2009)[]

In an effort to reduce the large travel distances for the teams, the second season saw the introduction of two conferences (East and West) and the re-alignment of the divisions according to geographical criteria. Despite efforts to expand the league to Central and Western Europe, only minor changes in the compositions of the Russian teams happened in the first three seasons. In the Gagarin Cup finals, teams from the East dominated with Ak Bars Kazan winning twice and Salavat Yulaev Ufa once.

Yaroslavl air disaster (2011)[]

The start of the fourth season was overshadowed by the Yaroslavl air disaster on 7 September 2011 in which almost the entire team of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl was killed shortly after take-off for their flight to their season opening game in Minsk. The Opening Cup game in Ufa, which was already under way when news of the disaster arrived, was abandoned and the start of the season postponed by five days. Lokomotiv Yaroslavl was forced to withdraw from the KHL season, but later played part of the VHL season and returned to the KHL in 2012.

Expansion to Central Europe (2011 and 2012)[]

After several failed attempts of teams from Central Europe and Scandinavia to join the KHL, expansion beyond the borders of the former Soviet Union was finally realized in 2011. Lev Poprad, a newly founded team based in Poprad, Slovakia was admitted to the league. Lev failed to reach the play-offs, but managed to draw considerable interest and sold out many of their home matches. For the 2012–13 season, Lev is replaced by a team of the same name, Lev Praha, from Prague, Czech Republic, while Slovan Bratislava from Slovakia and Ukraine’s HC Donbass join the KHL.^[10]

Seasons overview[]

Season	Gagarin Cup Winner	Gagarin Cup finalist	Continental Cup Winner	Top scorer
2008–09	Ak Bars Kazan	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	Salavat Yulaev Ufa* (129 points)	Sergei Mozyakin (76 points: 34 G, 42 A)
2009–10	Ak Bars Kazan	HC MVD	Salavat Yulaev Ufa (129 points)	Sergei Mozyakin (66 points: 27 G, 39 A)
2010–11	Salavat Yulaev Ufa	Atlant Moscow Oblast	Avangard Omsk (118 points)	Alexander Radulov (80 points: 20 G, 60 A)
2011–12	Dynamo Moscow	Avangard Omsk	Traktor Chelyabinsk (114 points)	Alexander Radulov (63 points: 25 G, 38 A)
2012–13	Dynamo Moscow	Traktor Chelyabinsk	SKA Saint Petersburg (115 points)	Sergei Mozyakin (76 points: 35 G, 41 A)
2013–14	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	HC Lev Praha	Dynamo Moscow (115 points)	Sergei Mozyakin (73 points: 34 G, 39 A)
2014–15	SKA Saint Petersburg	Ak Bars Kazan	CSKA Moscow (139 points)	Alexander Radulov (71 points: 24 G, 47 A)
2015–16	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	CSKA Moscow	CSKA Moscow (127 points)	Sergei Mozyakin (67 points: 32 G, 35 A)

*: In the first season, Salavat Yulaev Ufa was the winner of the regular season, but the Continental Cup was not yet awarded.

Trophies and awards[]

The winner of the playoff is awarded the Gagarin Cup, the KHL Champion title and the Russian Champion 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^[11] (Russian: Кубок Континента, Kubok Kontinenta). The winners of the conference finals are awarded the Eastern Conference Champion Cup (Russian: Кубок Победителю конференции Восток, Kubok Pobeditelyu konferentsii Vostok) and the Western Conference Champion Cup (Russian: Кубок Победителю конференции Запад, Kubok Pobeditelyu konferentsii Zapad).^[12]

The KHL also awards the Opening Cup annually to the winner of the first game between the Gagarin Cup winner and the runner-up of the previous season. On September 10, 2011, three days after the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster, the KHL head office decided to honor the deceased in the 2011 Opening Cup.^[13]

Season	Opening Cup Winner	Nadezhda Cup Winner	Gold Stick Award (MVP)
2008–09	Salavat Yulaev Ufa	not contested	Danis Zaripov
2009–10	Ak Bars Kazan	Alexander Radulov
2010–11	Dynamo Moscow	Alexander Radulov
2011–12	Salavat Yulaev Ufa	Alexander Radulov
2012–13	Dynamo Moscow	Dinamo Riga	Sergei Mozyakin
2013–14	Dynamo Moscow	Avangard Omsk	Sergei Mozyakin
2014–15	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	Cancelled due to economic reasons	Alexander Radulov
2015–16	CSKA Moscow	Not contested	Sergei Mozyakin

All-time team records[]

Since its foundation in 2008, 34 different clubs have played in the KHL, and 30 of them have at least once qualified for the playoffs. Of the current 28 teams, only two have not yet played in the playoffs. The table gives the final regular-season ranks for all teams, with the playoff performance encoded in colors. The teams are ordered by their championship results.

Club 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Ak Bars Kazan 2 8 4 6 2 4 4 12 Metallurg Magnitogorsk 6 3 5 4 7 2 6 8 Dynamo Moscow[a] 7 5 6 3 4 1 3 6 Salavat Yulaev Ufa 1 1 2 8 9 8 14 9 SKA Saint Petersburg 8 2 7 2 1 3 2 10 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl[b] 3 7 3 8 15 10 2 CSKA Moscow 4 12 19 18 6 12 1 1 Traktor Chelyabinsk 12 18 18 1 5 19 15 19 Avangard Omsk 16 11 1 5 3 20 8 5 Atlant Moscow Oblast 5 6 8 9 17 17 16 Lev Praha 15 5 HC MVD Balashikha 18 4 Sibir Novosibirsk 19 20 11 20 12 13 7 7 Jokerit Helsinki 5 3 Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 14 9 15 17 14 25 22 16 Donbass Donetsk 18 6 Spartak Moscow 9 10 12 19 23 23 21 Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod 11 15 17 7 20 9 12 11 Barys Astana 15 14 14 10 10 7 11 17 Dinamo Riga 10 13 13 15 24 10 21 22 Severstal Cherepovets 17 16 9 11 11 18 17 27 Dinamo Minsk 22 17 16 13 19 26 9 18 Sochi 13 4 Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk 10 14 16 22 25 23 Amur Khabarovsk 20 21 22 12 25 28 28 25 Slovan Bratislava 13 21 26 15 Admiral Vladivostok 16 19 13 Medveščak Zagreb 11 23 20 Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg 19 20 22 26 14 18 14 Lada Togliatti 13 22 24 26 Metallurg Novokuznetsk 21 24 23 16 21 27 27 28 Vityaz Chekhov 23 23 21 23 22 24 20 24 Lev Poprad 21 Khimik Voskresensk 24 Kunlun Red Star Beijing

Color Result Red Gagarin Cup Winner Yellow Runner-up Green Conference finalist Light Blue Conference semifinalist Blue Qualified for playoffs Purple Nadezhda Cup Winner Light Gray Not qualified for playoffs Gray Did not play in the season

 ^[a]: Includes record of Dynamo Moscow before the merger with HC MVD in 2010

 ^[b]: Did not participate in the 2011-12 season due to the deadly air disaster on September 7, 2011, that killed the entire team

References[]

External links[]

• www.khl.ru — Official homepage. (Russian language)
• en.khl.ru — Official homepage. (English language)
• Official KHL Store
• KHL All Stars Game
• KHL vs NHL exhibition games official homepage
• KHL news and stats from Eurohockey
• Kontinental Hockey League Players’ Trade Union

European Ice Hockey Leagues

International leagues Alps Hockey League — Balkan Ice Hockey League — BeNe League — Kontinental Hockey League — MOL Liga National leagues Armenia — Austria — Belarus — Belgium — Bosnia and Herzegovina — Bulgaria — Croatia — Czech Republic — Denmark — Estonia — Finland — France — Georgia — Germany — Greece — Hungary — Iceland — Italy — Kazakhstan — Latvia — Lithuania — Luxembourg — Macedonia — Netherlands — Norway — Poland — Romania — Serbia — Slovakia — Slovenia — Spain — Sweden — Switzerland — Turkey — Ukraine — United Kingdom Defunct leagues Soviet Union — Russia — Czechoslovakia — Yugoslavia — West Germany — East Germany — Ireland — Luxembourg — Malta — Portugal — Alpenliga — Interliga — Inter-National League — North Sea Cup — Panonian League — Eastern European — Balkan League — Baltic League — Carpathian League — Slohokej Liga

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За последние два года удача повернулась к КХЛ спиной.
Over the last two years, the KHL’s fortune have gone downhill.

В отличие от НХЛ, в КХЛ площадка большего, международного размера.
Unlike the NHL, the KHL plays on larger, international-size rinks.

Перейдя в КХЛ, «Йокерит» ослабил национальную хоккейную лигу Финляндии, сказал Руси.
Jokerit weakened the national hockey league in Finland by moving to the KHL, Rusi said.

Хотя связи КХЛ с Кремлем вначале способствовали ее росту, теперь они начинают ему препятствовать.
Just as the KHL’s ties to the Kremlin aided its rise, they are now starting to hinder its growth.

КХЛ незамедлительно нанесла ответный удар, запретив своим игрокам из Швеции играть за сборную страны.
The KHL immediately hit back, banning its Swedish players from playing for the Swedish national team.

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