2015–16 KHL season

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2015–2016 KHL season
League Kontinental Hockey League
Sport Ice hockey
Duration August 24, 2015 – April 19, 2016
Number of games 60
Number of teams 28
Regular season
Continental Cup winner Flag of Russia CSKA Moscow
Top scorer Flag of Russia Sergei Mozyakin
Playoffs
Western champions Flag of Russia CSKA Moscow
  Western runners-up Flag of Russia SKA Saint Petersburg
Eastern champions Flag of Russia Metallurg Magnitogorsk
  Eastern runners-up Flag of Russia Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Gagarin Cup
Finals champions Flag of Russia Metallurg Magnitogorsk
  Runners-up Flag of Russia CSKA Moscow
KHL seasons

The 2015–16 KHL season was the eighth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The season started on 24 August 2015 with the Opening Cup between defending champions SKA Saint Petersburg and last year's Continental Cup winners CSKA Moscow, replacing Ak Bars Kazan, the previous season's Gagarin Cup finalists.[1][2]

Team changes

Spartak Moscow returned to the league prior to this season.[3][4] It was also announced by KHL President Dmitry Chernyshenko that Atlant Moscow Oblast would not participate in the league this season due to financial problems.[5]

Divisions and regular season format

In this season, each team played every other team once at home and once on the road, giving a total of 54 games (27 at home, 27 on the road), plus 6 additional games (3 at home, 3 on the road) played by each team against rival clubs from its own conference. Thus, each team played a total of 60 games in the regular season.[6]

How the teams are divided into divisions and conferences is shown in the table below.[2][7]

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

League standings

Numbers in brackets denote the placement of team within conference.

Western Conference

Chernyshev Division GP W OTW SOW SOL OTL L Goals Pts
Avangard Omsk (1) 60 27 1 5 7 6 14 156:120 106
HK Sibir Novosibirsk (3) 60 24 4 8 6 3 15 155:133 105
Salavat Yulaev Ufa (4) 60 29 3 2 1 3 22 179:156 101
Admiral Vladivostok (6) 60 25 2 6 3 1 23 157:163 95
Barys Astana (9) 60 21 4 4 4 2 25 167:184 85
Amur Khabarovsk (12) 60 17 3 3 6 0 31 112:143 69
Metallurg Novokuznetsk (14) 60 13 1 0 10 4 32 128:191 55
Kharlamov Division GP W OTW SOW SOL OTL L Goals Pts
Metallurg Magnitogorsk (2) 60 25 3 10 2 0 20 180:138 103
Ak Bars Kazan (5) 60 25 1 5 8 1 20 143:127 96
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg (7) 60 21 4 5 7 4 19 145:158 92
HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk (8) 60 20 4 3 8 4 21 130:135 86
Traktor Chelyabinsk (10) 60 17 3 9 4 4 23 132:151 83
HC Ugra (11) 60 19 3 3 2 1 32 120:178 72
HC Lada Togliatti (13) 60 17 1 4 5 3 30 120:153 69

Western Conference

Tarasov Division GP W OTW SOW SOL OTL L Goals Pts
HC CSKA Moscow (1) 60 38 2 3 2 1 14 163:87 127
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl (3) 60 37 2 4 2 0 15 155:94 111
HC Sochi (4) 60 30 0 4 5 5 16 175:149 108
HC Dynamo Moscow (5) 60 27 3 5 6 2 17 167:126 105
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod (7) 60 23 4 6 7 4 16 163:137 100
HC Vityaz (13) 60 17 4 4 3 0 32 129:166 70
Severstal Cherepovets (14) 60 12 4 4 1 5 34 124:167 58
Bobrov Division GP W OTW SOW SOL OTL L Goals Pts
Jokerit Helsinki (2) 60 31 1 4 4 1 19 167:140 108
SKA Saint Petersburg (6) 60 27 5 1 2 5 20 176:149 100
HC Slovan Bratislava (8) 60 21 3 8 1 3 24 154:148 89
HC Dinamo Minsk (9) 60 20 2 5 4 5 24 147:168 83
KHL Medveščak Zagreb (10) 60 19 4 2 4 5 26 144:172 78
HC Spartak Moscow (11) 60 20 3 2 5 2 28 139:172 77
Dinamo Riga (12) 60 17 3 5 4 4 27 129:152 75

Gagarin Cup Playoffs

The playoffs started on February 21, 2016, with the top eight teams from each of the conferences and ended with the last game of the Gagarin Cup final on April 19, 2016.[8]

  Conference Quarter-Finals Conference Semi-Finals Conference Finals Gagarin Cup Finals
                                     
1  Flag of Russia Avangard 4     1  Flag of Russia Avangard 3  
8  Flag of Russia Neftekhimik 0     4  Flag of Russia Salavat Yulaev 4  


2  Flag of Russia Metallurg Mg 4 Eastern Conference
7  Flag of Russia Avtomobilist 2  
    4  Flag of Russia Salavat Yulaev 1  
  2  Flag of Russia Metallurg Mg 4  
3  Flag of Russia Sibir 4  
6  Flag of Russia Admiral 1  
4  Flag of Russia Salavat Yulaev 4   2  Flag of Russia Metallurg Mg 4
5  Flag of Russia Ak Bars 3     3  Flag of Russia Sibir 1  


  2  Flag of Russia Metallurg Mg 4
(Pairings are re-seeded after the first round.)
  1  Flag of Russia CSKA 3
1  Flag of Russia CSKA 4     1  Flag of Russia CSKA 4
8  Flag of Slovakia Slovan 0     7  Flag of Russia Torpedo 1  
2  Flag of Finland Jokerit 2
7  Flag of Russia Torpedo 4  
  1  Flag of Russia CSKA 4
  6  Flag of Russia SKA 0  
3  Flag of Russia Lokomotiv 1  
6  Flag of Russia SKA 4   Western Conference
4  Flag of Russia HC Sochi 0   5  Flag of Russia Dynamo Msk 2
5  Flag of Russia Dynamo Msk 4     6  Flag of Russia SKA 4  

Final standings

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

References

  1. ↑ "VIII KHL Season – Only 152 Days to Go". 25 March 2015. http://en.khl.ru/news/2015/03/25/233821.html. Retrieved 14 April 2015. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "KHL 2015-16 Schedule Announced". 2015-06-30. http://en.khl.ru/news/2015/06/30/235218.html. Retrieved 2015-07-01. 
  3. ↑ "Ромбик снова в моде: "Спартак" возвращается!". 3 June 2015. http://www.khl.ru/news/2015/06/03/234952.html. Retrieved 3 June 2015.  (in Russian)
  4. ↑ "Moskovan Spartak palaa KHL:ään". 16 February 2015. http://www.iltalehti.fi/khl/2015021619204399_jr.shtml. Retrieved 14 April 2015. , www.Iltalehti.fi, (in Finnish)
  5. ↑ "ХК "Атлант" пропустит следующий сезон КХЛ". 20 May 2015. http://www.championat.com/hockey/news-2147823-khk-atlant-propuskaet-sledujushhij-sezon-kkhl.html. Retrieved 24 May 2015. , www.championat.com, (in Russian)
  6. ↑ "League confirms format for 2015-16 season". 17 June 2015. http://en.khl.ru/news/2015/06/17/235081.html. Retrieved 4 July 2015. 
  7. ↑ "League confirms format for 2015-16 season". 2015-06-17. http://en.khl.ru/news/2015/06/17/235081.html. Retrieved 2015-07-01. 
  8. ↑ "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. 

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