2013–14 KHL season

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2013–2014 KHL season
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League Kontinental Hockey League
Sport Ice hockey
Duration 4 September 2013
– April 2014
Number of teams 28
Regular season
Continental Cup winner Dynamo Moscow
Top scorer Sergei Mozyakin
Playoffs
Western champions Lev Praha
  Western runners-up Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Eastern champions Metallurg Magnitogorsk
  Eastern runners-up Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Gagarin Cup
Finals champions Metallurg Magnitogorsk
  Runners-up Lev Praha
KHL seasons

The 2013–14 KHL season was the sixth season of the Kontinental Hockey League.

The league's 28 teams played a 54-game balanced schedule. The regular season began on 4 September with the Lokomotiv Cup between last year's finalists Dynamo Moscow and Traktor Chelyabinsk. The all-star game took place on 11 January in Bratislava, Slovakia and was followed by a 27-day break for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi from 30 January to 25 February. The last day of the regular season was 4 March.[1]

Sixteen teams, eight from each conference, advanced to the Gagarin Cup playoffs, which began on 7 March. The winner of each conference, Metallurg Magnitogorsk from the East and Lev Prague from the West, met in the Gagarin Cup Final. The seventh and last game was played on 30 April, with Metallurg winning 7-4. All four playoff rounds were best-of-seven series.[2]

Changes

Team changes

In late April 2013 it was announced that a newly created team from Vladivostok would be admitted to league and become the league's second far-eastern team.[3] The team is called Admiral Vladivostok and its name and emblem were chosen by the public.[4] Its initial roster was filled in an expansion draft on 17 June.[5]

A few days after Vladivostok was admitted to the league it was also confirmed that KHL Medveščak from Zagreb, Croatia would join the league.[6] Medveščak previously played in Austrian-based EBEL league. This made Croatia the eighth country with a KHL team.

In June 2013 Vityaz Chekhov officially announced its relocation to nearby Podolsk, Moscow Oblast where it can play in a bigger arena.[7]

Regular season

The regular season began on 4 September 2013 with the Lokomotiv Cup between the finalists of the previous season, Dynamo Moscow and Traktor Chelyabinsk and ended on 4 March 2014 after every team has played 54 matches.

League standings

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[8] Div GP W OTW SOW SOL OTL L GF GA Pts
1 C – Dynamo Moscow TAR 54 34 2 2 5 0 11 171 113 115
2 Y – SKA Saint Petersburg BOB 54 30 1 4 4 1 14 175 115 105
3 HC Lev Praha BOB 54 23 3 9 2 4 13 149 107 99
4 HC Donbass TAR 54 27 3 4 2 0 18 135 99 97
5 Dinamo Riga BOB 54 22 5 6 4 1 16 141 122 93
6 Medveščak Zagreb BOB 54 24 1 3 8 4 14 138 126 92
7 CSKA Moscow BOB 54 25 2 5 1 1 20 130 118 91
8 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl TAR 54 23 2 3 4 1 21 109 103 84
9 Atlant Moscow Oblast TAR 54 19 1 7 3 2 22 123 120 78
10 Severstal Cherepovets TAR 54 20 0 5 5 2 22 128 135 77
11 Slovan Bratislava BOB 54 15 3 6 3 1 26 120 160 67
13 Spartak Moscow TAR 54 12 4 4 4 2 28 105 147 58
12 Vityaz Podolsk TAR 54 12 1 5 9 1 26 110 147 58
14 Dinamo Minsk BOB 54 13 1 3 4 2 31 102 161 53

Y – Clinched Division;
C – Clinched Continental Cup;
BOB – Bobrov Division,
TAR – Tarasov Division

Eastern Conference[9] Div GP W OTW SOW SOL OTL L GF GA Pts
1 Z – Metallurg Magnitogorsk KHA 54 30 3 2 6 2 11 166 113 108
2 Y – Barys Astana CHE 54 26 2 4 2 2 18 182 157 94
3 Ak Bars Kazan KHA 54 26 4 4 5 1 14 139 108 100
4 Salavat Yulaev Ufa CHE 54 25 3 3 4 3 16 155 140 94
4 Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod KHA 54 25 2 5 3 2 17 153 121 94
6 Sibir Novosibirsk CHE 54 22 2 5 6 1 18 125 117 87
7 Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg KHA 54 22 0 7 5 1 19 134 125 86
8 Admiral Vladivostok CHE 54 21 1 4 4 1 23 135 129 78
9 Traktor Chelyabinsk KHA 54 18 1 6 5 2 22 126 148 75
10 Avangard Omsk CHE 54 17 1 5 4 2 25 136 162 69
11 Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk KHA 54 16 1 3 2 6 26 128 166 64
12 Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk KHA 54 15 2 2 3 1 31 127 152 57
13 Metallurg Novokuznetsk CHE 54 12 1 1 4 6 30 115 170 50
14 Amur Khabarovsk CHE 54 8 1 4 10 1 30 106 182 45

Y – Clinched Division;
Z – Clinched Conference
KHA – Kharlamov Division,
CHE – Chernyshev Division

Playoffs

The playoffs started on 7 March 2014, with the top eight teams from each of the conferences, and ended on 30 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  Magnitogorsk 4     1   Magnitogorsk 4  
8  Admiral Vladivostok 1     6  HC Sibir 0  


2   Barys Astana 4 Eastern Conference
7   Yekaterinburg 0  
    1   Magnitogorsk 4  
  4  Salavat Ufa 1  
3  Ak Bars Kazan 2  
6  HC Sibir 4  
4  Salavat Ufa 4   2  Barys Astana 2
5   Nizhny Novgorod 3     4  Salavat Ufa 4  


  1   Magnitogorsk 4
(Pairings are re-seeded after the first round.)
  3  Hc Lev Praha 3
1  Dynamo Moscow 3     2  SKA St. Petersburg 2
8  Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 4     8   Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 4  
2  SKA St. Petersburg 4
7  CSKA Moscow 0  
  3  HC Lev Praha 4
  8  Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 1  
3  HC Lev Praha 4  
6  HC Zagreb 0   Western Conference
4  HC Donbass 4   3  HC Lev Praha 4
5  Dynamo Riga 3     4  HC Donbass 2  

Nadezhda Cup

The 12 teams that do not advance to Gagarin Cup Playoffs participate in Nadezhda Cup. The teams ranked 9th and 10th in their conferences are seeded and start their games from Quarterfinals, while the other teams start their games from the First Round. The First Round consists of two games. In case there is a 1-1 tie in the end of the First Round, 5-minute overtime and a penalty shootout, if necessary, follow after Game 2. The other rounds consist of up to four games. If there is a 2-2 tie in the end of such a round, the series is decided in a 20-minute overtime with a shootout if necessary.[11]

  First Round Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
                                     
        
  W9  Atlant Moscow Oblast 0  
    W14  Dinamo Minsk 3  
W11  Slovan Bratislava 0
W14  Dinamo Minsk 2  
  W14  Dinamo Minsk 3  
  W10  Severstal Cherepovets 1  
        
        
  W10  Severstal Cherepovets 3
    W13  Vityaz Chekhov 1  
W12  Spartak Moscow *
W13  Vityaz Chekhov  
  W14  Dinamo Minsk 0
  E10  Avangard Omsk 3
        
        
  E10  Avangard Omsk 3
    E11  Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk 1  
E11  Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk 1,d
E14  Amur Khabarovsk 0,d  
  E10  Avangard Omsk 3
  E9  Traktor Chelyabinsk 1  
        
        
  E9  Traktor Chelyabinsk 2SO
    E12  Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 2  
E12  Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 2
E13  Metallurg Novokuznetsk 0  

* Note: Spartak Moscow was excluded from Nadezhda Cup 2014 tournament due to financial issues.[12]

Final standings

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

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