2014–15 KHL season

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2014–2015 KHL season
League Kontinental Hockey League
Sport Ice hockey
Duration 3 September 2014 – 19 April 2015
Number of games 60
Number of teams 28
Regular season
Continental Cup winner CSKA Moscow
Top scorer Alexander Radulov
Playoffs
Western champions SKA Saint Petersburg
  Western runners-up CSKA Moscow
Eastern champions Ak Bars Kazan
  Eastern runners-up Sibir Novosibirsk
Gagarin Cup
Finals champions SKA Saint Petersburg
  Runners-up Ak Bars Kazan
KHL seasons

The 2014–15 KHL season is the seventh season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The season started on 3 September with the Opening Cup between defending champions Metallurg Magnitogorsk and Dynamo Moscow, replacing Lev Praha, last year's runner up not participating this season.[1]

Team changes

Prior to the season, the KHL added three more teams: Jokerit from Helsinki, Lada Togliatti (an earlier member of the KHL that spent the last four seasons in the VHL) and HC Sochi, an expansion team from Sochi.[2]

HC Donbass did not play in the league this season, because of the political instability in Ukraine which culminated in a devastating fire at their home arena. Donbass intends to rejoin KHL for the 2015–16 season.[3] HC Lev Praha didn't participate in KHL this season either, because of financial problems.[4] In addition, Spartak Moscow did not participate in the league this season, after missing the deadline for shoring up its finances.[5]

Divisions and regular season format

New for this season, is that the teams primarily play games against teams in their own division, and secondarily against teams in their own conference, and finally against teams in the other conference. According to the new format (subject to final approval by the League management) each team will play a total of 60 games during the regular season as follows:

  • 24 games against the other teams in their division (two at home and two on the road against each opponent),
  • 14 games (one at home and one on the road against each opponent), against the teams in the other division in their conference,
  • 14 more against teams from the other conference (comprising seven home games versus teams from one division and seven road games against teams from the other),
  • 8 games where four will be against teams in their own conference (two at home, two on the road) and four against opposition from the other conference (again, two at home and two on the road). When determining the opponents and venues for these additional 8 games, the League consider practical things, including the geographical locations and the availability of the arenas.[6]

How the teams are divided into divisions and conferences[6] are shown in the table below.

Western Conference Eastern Conference
Bobrov Division Tarasov Division Kharlamov Division Chernyshev Division
Jokerit Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod Ak Bars Kazan Admiral Vladivostok
Dinamo Minsk CSKA Moscow Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg Amur Khabarovsk
Dinamo Riga Dynamo Moscow Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk Avangard Omsk
Atlant Moscow Oblast Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Metallurg Magnitogorsk Barys Astana
Medveščak Zagreb Severstal Cherepovets Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk Metallurg Novokuznetsk
SKA Saint Petersburg HC Sochi Lada Togliatti Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Slovan Bratislava Vityaz Podolsk Traktor Chelyabinsk Sibir Novosibirsk

Regular season

The regular season began on 3 September 2014 with the Opening Cup between Metallurg Magnitogorsk and Dynamo Moscow. Metallurg won the game 6–1.[7]

Numbers in brackets are conference placements.

Eastern Conference

Chernyshev Division GP W OTW SOW SOL OTL L Goals Pts
HK Sibir Novosibirsk (2) 60 34 2 1 1 2 20 176:125 111
HK Avangard Omsk (4) 60 30 2 3 2 6 17 172:139 108
Barys Astana (5) 60 24 2 4 6 3 21 170:165 93
Salavat Yulaev Ufa (6) 60 25 2 1 4 1 27 158:173 86
Admiral Vladivostok (9) 60 20 4 4 3 1 28 162:172 80
Metallurg Novokuznetsk (13) 60 10 3 7 1 2 37 115:190 53
Amur Khabarovsk (14) 60 11 0 3 4 2 40 117:207 45
Kharlamov Division GP W OTW SOW SOL OTL L Goals Pts
Ak Bars Kazan (1) 60 34 2 4 6 0 14 169:115 120
Metallurg Magnitogorsk (3) 60 32 4 4 2 3 15 174:129 117
Traktor Chelyabinsk (7) 60 21 2 6 3 4 24 144:154 86
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg (8) 60 21 2 3 6 2 26 134:147 81
HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk (10) 60 17 2 6 4 2 29 165:199 73
HC Lada Togliatti (11) 60 16 3 5 2 2 32 130:158 68
HC Ugra (12) 60 14 5 2 5 3 31 134:176 64

Western Conference

Tarasov Division GP W OTW SOW SOL OTL L Goals Pts
HC CSKA Moscow (1) 60 39 4 6 1 1 9 207:98 139
HC Dynamo Moscow(3) 60 35 5 1 6 0 13 172:120 123
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl (6) 60 23 4 4 7 2 19 155:143 97
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod (7) 60 22 1 7 5 4 22 153:144 90
HC Sochi (8) 60 23 3 2 6 3 23 164:170 88
Severstal Cherepovets (10) 60 19 1 7 6 6 21 157:168 85
HC Vityaz (11) 60 20 2 4 1 5 28 152:186 78
Bobrov Division GP W OTW SOW SOL OTL L Goals Pts
SKA Saint Petersburg (2) 60 36 2 3 3 2 14 210:136 123
Jokerit Helsinki (4) 60 35 3 2 2 2 16 171:136 119
HC Dinamo Minsk (5) 60 27 3 4 4 1 21 171:159 100
Atlant Moscow Oblast (9) 60 23 1 3 5 3 25 158:161 85
Dinamo Riga (12) 60 22 0 3 3 2 30 126:160 77
KHL Medveščak Zagreb (13) 60 17 3 3 3 2 32 147:191 68
HC Slovan Bratislava (14) 60 15 0 5 6 2 32 136:188 63

Russian Ice Hockey Championship

At the end of the regular season of the KHL Championship the following teams became medalists of the Russian Ice Hockey Championship:[8]

Rank Team
Gold medal icon.png CSKA Moscow
Silver medal icon.png SKA Saint Petersburg
Bronze medal icon.png Dynamo Moscow

Playoffs

  Conference Quarter-Finals Conference Semi-Finals Conference Finals Gagarin Cup Finals
                                     
1  Ak Bars Kazan 4     1  Ak Bars Kazan 4  
8  Avtomobilist 1     4  Avangard Omsk 1  


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


  1  Ak Bars Kazan 1
(Pairings are re-seeded after the first round.)
  2  SKA Saint Petersburg 4
1  CSKA Moscow 4     1  CSKA Moscow 4
8  HC Sochi 0     4  Jokerit 1  
2  SKA Saint Petersburg 4
7  Torpedo Novgorod 1  
  1  CSKA Moscow 3
  2  SKA Saint Petersburg 4  
3  Dynamo Moscow 4  
6  Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 2   Western Conference
4  Jokerit 4   2  SKA Saint Petersburg 4
5  Dinamo Minsk 1     3  Dynamo Moscow 1  

Final standings

Bold indicates teams qualified for playoffs.

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

References

  1. ↑ "КАЛЕНДАРЬ МАТЧЕЙ КХЛ СЕЗОНА 2014-15". 2014-07-17. http://www.khl.ru/documents/KHL_calendar_2014-2015_regular.pdf. Retrieved 2014-07-18. 
  2. ↑ "Welcome, Jokerit and Sochi; welcome back, Lada". 2014-04-30. http://en.khl.ru/news/2014/04/30/27837.html. Retrieved 2014-05-03. 
  3. ↑ "Donbass to miss 2014-15 season". 2014-06-19. http://en.khl.ru/news/2014/06/19/227566.html. Retrieved 2014-06-19. 
  4. ↑ "Smutné očekávání potvrzeno! Pražský Lev nepřežil klinickou smrt, v příští sezoně KHL bude chybět". 2014-07-01. http://www.hokej.cz/cz/lev-v-khl/smutne-ocekavani-potvrzeno-prazsky-lev-neprezil-klinickou-smrt-v-pristi-sezone-khl-bude-chybet/?1=rw. Retrieved 2014-07-01. 
  5. ↑ "У министра конструктивная позиция по легионерам", 2014-04-22. Retrieved on 2014-05-10. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Regular Season Format Unveiled". 2014-07-09. http://en.khl.ru/news/2014/07/09/27893.html. Retrieved 2014-07-11. 
  7. ↑ "Game resume, khl.ru". 3 September 2014. http://en.khl.ru/game/266/41559/resume/. Retrieved 4 September 2014. 
  8. ↑ KHL Sports Regulations. Seasons 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017
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