2017–18 KHL season
| League | Kontinental Hockey League |
| Sport | Ice hockey |
| Duration | 21 August 2017 – April 2018 |
| Number of games | 56 |
| Number of teams | 27 |
| Regular season | |
| Continental Cup winner | SKA Saint Petersburg |
| Top scorer |  Ilya Kovalchuk
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| Western champions | CSKA Moscow |
| Western runners-up | SKA Saint Petersburg |
| Eastern champions | Ak Bars Kazan |
| Eastern runners-up | Traktor Chelyabinsk |
| Gagarin Cup | |
| Finals champions | Ak Bars Kazan |
| Runners-up | CSKA Moscow |
| Gagarin Cup MVP | Justin Azevedo |
| KHL seasons | |
The 2017–18 KHL season is the tenth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The season started on 21 August 2017 and ended on 22 April 2018.
The league accommodated a 33 day Olympic break, to allow its players to participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics in February.
Team changes
The Croatian club Medveščak Zagreb relocated back to the Austrian Hockey League, and Russian club Metallurg Novokuznetsk was relegated to the Supreme Hockey League, to bring the total number of KHL teams to 27.
March 2018 KHL announced that two teams going to drop out after this season and next season have 25 teams. Yugra and Lada Togliatti are the teams that will not continue in KHL.
Divisions and regular season format
In this season, like in the 2016–17 season, each team will play every other team once at home and once on the road, giving a total of 52 games (26 at home, 26 on the road), plus 4 additional games (2 at home, 2 on the road) played by each team against rival clubs from its own conference. Thus, each team played a total of 56 games in the regular season.[1]
League standings
Western Conference
| Tarasov Division | GP | W | OTW | SOW | SOL | OTL | L | Goals | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HC CSKA Moscow (2) | 56 | 35 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 175:89 | 124 |
| Lokomotiv Yaroslavl (4) | 56 | 26 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 148:129 | 99 |
| Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod (5) | 56 | 23 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 19 | 116:127 | 89 |
| HC Sochi (6) | 56 | 22 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 20 | 130:138 | 87 |
| Severstal Cherepovets (8) | 56 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 18 | 131:145 | 83 |
| HC Dynamo Moscow (9) | 56 | 19 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 23 | 134:139 | 80 |
| HC Vityaz (11) | 56 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 27 | 131:160 | 67 |
| Bobrov Division | GP | W | OTW | SOW | SOL | OTL | L | Goals | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SKA Saint Petersburg (1) | 56 | 40 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 227:97 | 138 |
| Jokerit Helsinki (3) | 56 | 29 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 151:108 | 103 |
| HC Spartak Moscow (7) | 56 | 22 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 22 | 153:146 | 85 |
| HC Dinamo Minsk (10) | 56 | 20 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 28 | 112:129 | 73 |
| HC Slovan Bratislava (12) | 56 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 31 | 119:187 | 58 |
| Dinamo Riga (13) | 56 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 31 | 105:153 | 50 |
Eastern Conference
| Chernyshev Division | GP | W | OTW | SOW | SOL | OTL | L | Goals | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salavat Yulaev Ufa (2) | 56 | 26 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 151:139 | 93 |
| Avangard Omsk (7) | 56 | 22 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 146:116 | 88 |
| Amur Khabarovsk (8) | 56 | 21 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 18 | 132:141 | 88 |
| HC Sibir Novosibirsk (9) | 56 | 23 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 136:135 | 87 |
| Barys Astana (10) | 56 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 25 | 148:164 | 74 |
| Admiral Vladivostok (11) | 56 | 16 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 30 | 120:145 | 63 |
| HC Kunlun Red Star (12) | 56 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 29 | 103:146 | 61 |
| Kharlamov Division | GP | W | OTW | SOW | SOL | OTL | L | Goals | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ak Bars Kazan (1) | 56 | 30 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 158:126 | 100 |
| Traktor Chelyabinsk (3) | 56 | 26 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 129:121 | 96 |
| Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg (4) | 56 | 25 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 165:137 | 95 |
| Metallurg Magnitogorsk (5) | 56 | 24 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 150:135 | 95 |
| HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk (6) | 56 | 27 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 135:135 | 94 |
| HC Lada Togliatti (13) | 56 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 34 | 105:149 | 50 |
| HC Yugra (14) | 56 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 32 | 93:167 | 48 |
Playoffs
The playoffs started on March 3, 2018, with the top eight teams from each of the conferences and ended on April 22, 2018.[2]
| Conference Quarter-Finals | Conference Semi-Finals | Conference Finals | Gagarin Cup Finals | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | Ak Bars
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4 | 1 | Ak Bars
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| 8 | Amur
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1 | 5 | Metallurg Mg
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| 2 | Salavat Yulaev
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| 7 | Avangard
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| 1 | Ak Bars
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| 3 | Traktor
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| 6 | Neftekhimik
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| 4 | Avtomobilist
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2 | 2 | Salavat Yulaev
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| 5 | Metallurg Mg
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4 | 3 | Traktor
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| E1 | Ak Bars
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| W2 | CSKA
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| 1 | SKA
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4 | 1 | SKA
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| 8 | Severstal
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0 | 4 | Lokomotiv
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| 2 | CSKA
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| 7 | Spartak
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| 1 | SKA
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| 2 | CSKA
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| 3 |  Jokerit
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| 6 | Sochi
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| 4 | Lokomotiv
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4 | 2 | CSKA
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| 5 | Torpedo
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0 | 3 | Jokerit
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Final standings
References
- ↑ "League confirms format for 2015–16 season". 17 June 2015. http://en.khl.ru/news/2015/06/17/235081.html. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
- ↑ "League confirms format for Stage Two". 8 October 2015. http://www.khl.ru/documents/KHL_calendar_2015-2016_playoff_en.pdf. Retrieved 8 October 2015.