2017–18 KHL season
2017–18 KHL season | |
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League | Kontinental Hockey League |
Sport | Ice hockey |
Duration | 21 August 2017 – 22 April 2018 |
Number of games | 56 |
Number of teams | 27 |
Regular season | |
Continental Cup winner | SKA Saint Petersburg |
Top scorer | ![]() |
Western champions | CSKA Moscow |
Western runners-up | SKA Saint Petersburg |
Eastern champions | Ak Bars Kazan |
Eastern runners-up | Traktor Chelyabinsk |
Gagarin Cup | |
Champions | Ak Bars Kazan |
Runners-up | CSKA Moscow |
Finals MVP | Justin Azevedo |
The 2017–18 KHL season was 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
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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
[edit]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]
How the teams are divided into divisions and conferences is shown in the table below.[2]
Western Conference | Eastern Conference |
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League standings
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | OTW | OTL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | SKA Saint Petersburg | 56 | 40 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 227 | 97 | +130 | 138 | Advance to Gagarin Cup Playoffs[a] |
2 | CSKA Moscow | 56 | 35 | 9 | 1 | 11 | 175 | 89 | +86 | 124 | |
3 | Jokerit | 56 | 29 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 151 | 108 | +43 | 103 | Advance to Gagarin Cup Playoffs |
4 | Lokomotiv Yaroslavl | 56 | 26 | 9 | 3 | 18 | 148 | 129 | +19 | 99 | |
5 | Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod | 56 | 23 | 6 | 8 | 19 | 116 | 127 | −11 | 89 | |
6 | HC Sochi | 56 | 22 | 7 | 7 | 20 | 130 | 138 | −8 | 87 | |
7 | Spartak Moscow | 56 | 22 | 7 | 5 | 22 | 153 | 146 | +7 | 85 | |
8 | Severstal Cherepovets | 56 | 18 | 9 | 11 | 18 | 131 | 145 | −14 | 83 | |
9 | Dynamo Moscow | 56 | 19 | 9 | 5 | 23 | 134 | 139 | −5 | 80 | |
10 | Dinamo Minsk | 56 | 20 | 5 | 3 | 28 | 112 | 129 | −17 | 73 | |
11 | Vityaz Podolsk | 56 | 17 | 4 | 8 | 27 | 131 | 160 | −29 | 67 | |
12 | Slovan Bratislava | 56 | 15 | 3 | 7 | 31 | 119 | 187 | −68 | 58 | |
13 | Dinamo Riga | 56 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 31 | 105 | 153 | −48 | 50 |
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) a higher number of wins in the regular time; 3) a higher number of wins in overtime and shootouts; 4) goal difference; 5) number of goals scored; 6) drawing of lots.
Notes:
- ^ Teams leading a division hold one of the first two places of their conference.
Pos | Team | Pld | W | OTW | OTL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Ak Bars Kazan | 56 | 30 | 2 | 6 | 18 | 158 | 126 | +32 | 100 | Advance to Gagarin Cup Playoffs[a] |
2 | Salavat Yulaev Ufa | 56 | 26 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 151 | 139 | +12 | 93 | |
3 | Traktor Chelyabinsk | 56 | 26 | 7 | 4 | 19 | 129 | 121 | +8 | 96 | Advance to Gagarin Cup Playoffs |
4 | Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg | 56 | 25 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 165 | 137 | +28 | 95 | |
5 | Metallurg Magnitogorsk | 56 | 24 | 8 | 7 | 17 | 150 | 135 | +15 | 95 | |
6 | Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk | 56 | 27 | 3 | 7 | 19 | 135 | 135 | 0 | 94 | |
7 | Avangard Omsk | 56 | 22 | 7 | 8 | 19 | 146 | 116 | +30 | 88 | |
8 | Amur Khabarovsk | 56 | 21 | 8 | 9 | 18 | 132 | 141 | −9 | 88 | |
9 | Sibir Novosibirsk | 56 | 23 | 8 | 2 | 23 | 136 | 135 | +1 | 87 | |
10 | Barys Astana | 56 | 19 | 5 | 7 | 25 | 148 | 164 | −16 | 74 | |
11 | Admiral Vladivostok | 56 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 30 | 120 | 145 | −25 | 63 | |
12 | Kunlun Red Star | 56 | 15 | 4 | 8 | 29 | 103 | 146 | −43 | 61 | |
13 | Lada Togliatti | 56 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 34 | 105 | 149 | −44 | 50 | |
14 | Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk | 56 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 32 | 93 | 167 | −74 | 48 |
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) a higher number of wins in the regular time; 3) a higher number of wins in overtime and shootouts; 4) goal difference; 5) number of goals scored; 6) drawing of lots.
Notes:
- ^ Teams leading a division hold one of the first two places of its conference.
Gagarin Cup playoffs
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3 | ![]() | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
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5 | ![]() | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
E1 | ![]() | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
W2 | ![]() | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
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2 | ![]() | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
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1 | ![]() | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
Western Conference | |||||||||||||||||||
2 | ![]() | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
3 | ![]() | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
6 | ![]() | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
2 | ![]() | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
3 | ![]() | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
4 | ![]() | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
5 | ![]() | 0 |
Final standings
[edit]Player statistics
[edit]Scoring leaders
[edit]As of 1 March 2018
Player | Team | GP | G | A | Pts | +/– | PIM |
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SKA Saint Petersburg | 53 | 31 | 32 | 63 | +12 | 26 |
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SKA Saint Petersburg | 54 | 22 | 40 | 62 | +25 | 2 |
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Barys Astana | 46 | 35 | 21 | 56 | +5 | 26 |
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Salavat Yulaev Ufa | 55 | 16 | 39 | 55 | +6 | 60 |
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Barys Astana | 50 | 17 | 35 | 52 | +1 | 64 |
Source: KHL
Leading goaltenders
[edit]As of 1 March 2018
Player | Team | GP | Min | W | L | SOP | GA | SO | SV% | GAA |
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CSKA Moscow | 21 | 1192:53 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 26 | 6 | .938 | 1.31 |
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SKA Saint Petersburg | 29 | 1718:12 | 22 | 4 | 1 | 45 | 5 | .937 | 1.57 |
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CSKA Moscow | 37 | 2182:35 | 25 | 8 | 4 | 58 | 8 | .931 | 1.59 |
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SKA Saint Petersburg | 28 | 1592:34 | 20 | 4 | 4 | 45 | 7 | .933 | 1.70 |
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Jokerit | 39 | 2352:26 | 24 | 11 | 4 | 69 | 9 | .931 | 1.76 |
Source: KHL
Awards
[edit]Players of the Month
[edit]Best KHL players of each month.
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Milestones
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References
[edit]- ^ "League confirms format for 2015–16 season". 17 June 2015. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
- ^ "KHL Teams, season 2017–18". 26 September 2017. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
- ^ "Players of the Month: Zapolski, Tryamkin, Dawes and Tolvanen". KHL.ru. 2 November 2017. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- ^ "Players of the Month: Koshechkin, Tryamkin, Boychuk and Petunin". KHL.ru. 2 December 2017. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- ^ "December's finest: Sorokin, Piganovich, Bergstrom and Petunin". KHL.ru. 2 January 2018. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- ^ "January's finest: Francouz, Larsen, Khokhlachyov and Bikmullin". KHL.ru. 1 February 2018. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- ^ "March's finest: Sorokin, Bailen, Azevedo and Kravtsov". KHL.ru. 3 April 2018. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
- ^ "April's finest: Johansson, Tokranov, Azevedo and Kravtsov". KHL.ru. 24 April 2018. Retrieved 18 May 2018.