2012–13 KHL season

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2012–13 KHL season
League Kontinental Hockey League
Sport Ice hockey
Duration 4 September 2012
– 17 April 2013
Number of teams 26
Total attendance 4,126,720 (Regular season)
Regular season
Continental Cup winner SKA Saint Petersburg
Season MVP Sergei Mozyakin
Top scorer Sergei Mozyakin
Playoffs
Western champions Dynamo Moscow
  Western runners-up SKA Saint Petersburg
Eastern champions Traktor Chelyabinsk
  Eastern runners-up Ak Bars Kazan
Gagarin Cup
Finals champions Dynamo Moscow
  Runners-up Traktor Chelyabinsk
Gagarin Cup MVP Alexander Eremenko
Dynamo Mosocw
KHL seasons

The 2012–13 KHL season was the fifth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The regular season began on 4 September with the Lokomotiv Cup between last year's finalists Dynamo Moscow and Avangard Omsk. For the first time, the league consisted of 26 teams from 7 different countries.[1] Dynamo Moscow successfully defended their title after beating Traktor Chelyabinsk in the Gagarin Cup finals.

Changes

Team changes

After withdrawing from the previous season in the wake of the plane crash that killed the team's entire active roster, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl returned to the KHL with new players.

Lev Poprad was disbanded, but a team of the same name, Lev Prague, was established in Prague, Czech Republic, while Slovan Bratislava joined the KHL and thus continues the league's presence in Slovakia.[2] Also HC Donbass from Donetsk, Ukraine joined the league. The team previously played in the VHL.[3] This brought the total number of teams to 26, representing 7 different countries.

Salary cap

The salary cap changed from a soft cap to a hard cap, set at 1.1 billion rubles (approx. US$36.5 million), but each club can waive the cap for one player transferred directly from the NHL, if he is eligible to play for the Russian national team.[4]

Season structure

The regular season consisted of 52 games for each team — twice (home and away) against each other team in the league and two extra games against a selected "rival" opponent (typically a geographically close team). This was a change from previous seasons, where all intra-division opponents were played more frequently. The top 8 teams from each conference qualified for the play-offs, which are played as best-of-seven series in each round.

Nadezhda Cup tournament

In January 2013, a new repechage tournament known as the Nadezhda Cup (Cup of Hope) was announced, which was held alongside the playoffs. Six teams from the Western Conference and four teams from the Eastern Conference who had not qualified for the playoffs competed in the tournament, whose prize includes the first overall pick in the next KHL Junior Draft. The new tournament was intended to extend the season, and help maintain interest in hockey for fans and players in preparation for the 2014 Winter Olympics.[5] The first Cup of Hope was won by Dinamo Riga.

Regular season

The regular season started on 4 September 2012 with the Lokomotiv Cup between the finalists of the previous season, Dynamo Moscow and Avangard Omsk and ended on 17 February 2013 after every team has played 52 matches.

Notable events

NHL lockout

The league set up rules for the NHL lockout which lasted 16 September 2012 to early January 2013. According to the special regulations, each KHL team was allowed to add up to 3 NHL players to their roster, among them at most one foreign player.[6]

Proposed matches in New York

Two regular season games between Dynamo Moscow and SKA Saint Petersburg were planned to take place in the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York in January 2013. However, the KHL reverted this decision in October 2012 and thus these matches were played in Russia.[7]

All-star game

The 5th KHL all-star game was played on 13 January 2013 in Chelyabinsk, with Team East, captained by Aleksey Morozov, winning 18–11 over Team West, captained by Ilya Kovalchuk.

League standings

Source: KHL.ru[8]

Points are awarded as follows:

  • 3 Points for a win in regulation ("W")
  • 2 Points for a win in overtime ("OTW") or a penalty shootout ("SOW")
  • 1 Point for a loss in overtime ("OTL") or a penalty shootout ("SOL")
  • 0 Points for a loss in regulation ("L")

The conference standings determine the seedings for the play-offs. The first two places in each conference are reserved for the division winners.

Western Conference

R Div GP W OTW SOW SOL OTL L GF GA Pts
1 c – SKA Saint Petersburg BOB 52 36 1 1 2 1 11 182 116 115
2 y – CSKA Moscow TAR 52 23 5 8 1 0 15 151 109 96
3 Dynamo Moscow BOB 52 27 3 6 1 1 14 150 115 101
4 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl TAR 52 24 2 8 0 0 18 131 121 92
5 Severstal Cherepovets TAR 52 21 1 6 3 5 16 137 117 85
6 Slovan Bratislava BOB 52 17 3 8 5 0 19 124 127 78
7 Lev Prague BOB 52 23 0 1 2 3 23 132 133 76
8 Atlant Moscow Oblast TAR 52 19 1 3 4 4 21 137 141 73
9 HC Donbass BOB 52 17 2 5 6 1 21 134 142 72
10 Dinamo Minsk TAR 52 18 5 1 2 3 23 125 148 71
11 Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod TAR 52 19 0 2 4 4 23 142 146 69
12 Vityaz Chekhov BOB 52 11 1 6 6 2 26 119 151 55
13 Spartak Moscow TAR 52 11 4 2 5 2 28 106 151 52
14 Dinamo Riga BOB 52 13 2 2 2 2 31 109 151 51

y – Won division; c – Won Continental Cup (best record in KHL);
BOB – Bobrov Division, TAR – Tarasov Division

Source: khl.ru[9]

Eastern Conference

R Div GP W OTW SOW SOL OTL L GF GA Pts
1 z – Ak Bars Kazan KHA 52 28 1 5 5 3 10 157 112 104
2 y – Avangard Omsk CHE 52 26 6 3 4 2 11 149 121 102
3 Traktor Chelyabinsk KHA 52 28 0 3 6 2 13 152 120 98
4 Metallurg Magnitogorsk KHA 52 27 0 0 7 5 13 167 121 93
5 Salavat Yulaev Ufa CHE 52 24 2 3 6 0 17 148 140 88
6 Barys Astana CHE 52 23 3 2 2 4 18 175 161 85
7 Sibir Novosibirsk CHE 52 21 1 5 4 3 17 124 119 84
8 Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk KHA 52 17 5 5 4 2 19 144 150 77
9 Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk KHA 52 19 4 3 3 0 23 153 163 74
10 Metallurg Novokuznetsk CHE 52 15 3 1 3 2 28 132 177 58
11 Amur Khabarovsk CHE 52 11 1 4 1 0 35 115 167 44
12 Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg KHA 52 7 0 1 7 5 32 104 180 35

y – Won division; z – Won conference (and division);
CHE – Chernyshev Division, KHA – Kharlamov Division

Source: khl.ru[9]

Playoffs

The playoffs started on 20 February 2013 with the top eight teams from both conferences and ended on 17 April with the last game of the Gagarin Cup final.

During the first three rounds home ice was determined by seeding number within the Conference, not position on the bracket. In the Finals the team with better seeding number had home ice advantage. If the seeding numbers were equal, the regular season record was taken into account.[10]

  Conference Quarter-Finals
Conference Semi-Finals
Conference Finals
Gagarin Cup Finals
                                     
1  Ak Bars Kazan 4     1  Ak Bars Kazan 4  
8  Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 0     5  Salavat Yulaev Ufa 3  


2  Avangard Omsk 4 Eastern Conference
7  Sibir Novosibirsk 3  
    1  Ak Bars Kazan 3  
  3  Traktor Chelyabinsk 4  
3  Traktor Chelyabinsk 4  
6  Barys Astana 3  
4  Metallurg Magnitogorsk 3   2  Avangard Omsk 1
5  Salavat Yulaev Ufa 4     3  Traktor Chelyabinsk 4  


  3  Traktor Chelyabinsk 2
(Pairings are re-seeded after the first round.)
  3  Dynamo Moscow 4
1  SKA Saint Petersburg 4     1  SKA Saint Petersburg 4
8  Atlant Moscow Oblast 1     5  Severstal Cherepovets 0  
2  CSKA Moscow 4
7  Lev Prague 0  
  1  SKA Saint Petersburg 2
  3  Dynamo Moscow 4  
3  Dynamo Moscow 4  
6  Slovan Bratislava 0   Western Conference
4  Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 2   2  CSKA Moscow 1
5  Severstal Cherepovets 4     3  Dynamo Moscow 4  

Nadezhda Cup

Preliminary round

  Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
                           
  W14  Dinamo Riga 2  
W9  HC Donbass 2  
  W14  Dinamo Riga 3  
  W10  Dinamo Minsk 0  
W13  Spartak Moscow 0
  W10  Dinamo Minsk 3  
    W14  Dinamo Riga 3
  E11  Amur Khabarovsk 1
  E12  Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg 2  
E9  Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk 2  
E12  Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg 2
  E11  Amur Khabarovsk 2  
E11  Amur Khabarovsk 3
  E10  Metallurg Novokuznetsk 1  

Final standings

Bold indicates playoff team.

Rank Team
1 Dynamo Moscow
2 Traktor Chelyabinsk
3 SKA Saint Petersburg
4 Ak Bars Kazan
5 Avangard Omsk
6 CSKA Moscow
7 Salavat Yulaev Ufa
8 Severstal Cherepovets
9 Metallurg Magnitogorsk
10 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
11 Barys Astana
12 Sibir Novosibirsk
13 Slovan Bratislava
14 Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk
15 Lev Prague
16 Atlant Moscow Oblast
17 Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk
18 HC Donbass
19 Dinamo Minsk
20 Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
21 Metallurg Novokuznetsk
22 Vityaz Chekhov
23 Spartak Moscow
24 Dinamo Riga
25 Amur Khabarovsk
26 Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg

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