2008–09 KHL season
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The 2008–09 KHL season
Season (sports)
In an organized sports league, a season is the portion of one year in which regulated games of the sport are in session. For example, in Major League Baseball, one season lasts approximately from April 1 through October 1; in Association football, it is generally from August until May In an...

was the inaugural season of the Kontinental Hockey League
Kontinental Hockey League
The Kontinental Hockey League is an international professional ice hockey league in Eurasia founded in 2008. As of 2009, it is ranked as the strongest hockey league in Europe....

. It started on September 2, 2008, and finished on February 26, 2009. 24 teams each played 56 games.

NHL player transfer

KHL teams have signed several players from the NHL, including Jaromír Jágr
Jaromir Jagr
Jaromír Jágr is a Czech professional ice hockey right winger who plays for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League . Jágr formerly played with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals, and New York Rangers, serving as captain of the Penguins and the Rangers...

, Alexander Radulov
Alexander Radulov
Alexander Valerievich Radulov is a Russian professional ice hockey player currently playing for Salavat Yulaev Ufa of the Kontinental Hockey League . Radulov is the KHL's all-time assist leader with 125 career assists...

, Ray Emery
Ray Emery
Ray Emery , often nicknamed Razor or Sugar Ray, is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender, currently with the Chicago Blackhawks. He formerly played for the Anaheim Ducks, Philadelphia Flyers, and the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League and Atlant Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey...

, Sergei Brylin
Sergei Brylin
Sergei Vladimirovich Brylin is a Russian professional ice hockey center currently playing for Metallurg Novokuznetsk of the Kontinental Hockey League...

, Ladislav Nagy
Ladislav Nagy
Ladislav Nagy is a Slovak professional hockey player who plays for HC Lev Poprad of the KHL.- Playing career :Nagy, who is of Hungarian descent, was drafted 177th overall in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft by the St. Louis Blues. Nagy had played in the Slovak Extraliga as a junior prior to being drafted...

, Jozef Stumpel
Jozef Stümpel
Jozef Stümpel is a Slovak professional ice hockey centre currently playing for HC Spartak Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League .-Playing career:...

, Marcel Hossa
Marcel Hossa
Marcel Hossa is a Slovak professional ice hockey player currently playing for Spartak Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League . His older brother Marián plays for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League .-Playing career:...

, Ben Clymer
Ben Clymer
Benjamin Andrew Clymer is a retired American professional ice hockey defenseman who played in the National Hockey League with the Tampa Bay Lightning and Washington Capitals.-Playing career:...

, Alexei Zhitnik
Alexei Zhitnik
Oleksiy Mykolaiovych "Alexei" Zhitnik is a retired Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey defenceman. Zhitnik has played more games in the National Hockey League than any other Soviet-born defenceman. He has represented the Soviet Union, CIS, and Russia internationally, and Ukraine during two NHL All-Star...

, Bryan Berard
Bryan Berard
Bryan Wallace Berard is a former American professional ice hockey player. He was the first overall pick in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft by the Ottawa Senators. He is most noted for a debilitating eye injury he received early in his career...

, and Chris Simon
Chris Simon
Chris Simon is a former Canadian professional ice hockey left winger whose last club was UHC Dynamo of the Kontinental Hockey League . He played 15 seasons in the NHL.-Minor hockey:...

.

Dispute

A dispute between the two leagues over some of these signings was supposed to have been resolved by an agreement signed on July 10, whereby each league would honor the contracts of the other, but the signing of Alexander Radulov
Alexander Radulov
Alexander Valerievich Radulov is a Russian professional ice hockey player currently playing for Salavat Yulaev Ufa of the Kontinental Hockey League . Radulov is the KHL's all-time assist leader with 125 career assists...

 was made public one day after the agreement (though it was actually signed two days prior to the agreement taking effect), leading to an investigation by the International Ice Hockey Federation.

Ownership

On a deal dated October 30, Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works
Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works
Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works , abbreviated as MMK, is the third largest steel company in Russia. It is located in the city of Magnitogorsk, in Chelyabinsk Oblast....

 bought 11.76% of the KHL.

Economic trouble

Metallurg Novokuznetsk
Metallurg Novokuznetsk
Metallurg Novokuznetsk is a professional ice hockey team from Siberia based in Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. They are members of the Chernyshev Division in the Kontinental Hockey League.-History:-Champions:...

 has so far experienced difficulty financing its operations, largely due to the global financial crisis of 2008. Team sponsor Evraz Group is rumored to be cutting funding. There is a possibility the team will cease operations by New Years.

HC MVD has experienced delays in paying players, while Khimik Voskresensk
Khimik Voskresensk (2005–)
Khimik Voskrenensk , also known as Moscow Hockey Club Khimik, is an ice hockey team based in Voskresensk, Moscow Oblast, Russia. The team plays its home games in the 4,500 seat Podmoskovie Sports Palace, which was previously known as the Khimik Sports Palace.This team is not to be confused HC...

 has run itself into debt. Metallurg Magnitogorsk
Metallurg Magnitogorsk
Metallurg Magnitogorsk is a professional ice hockey team based in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. They are members of the Kharlamov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League...

 has been forced to cut staff expenditures by 30%. Avangard Omsk
Avangard Omsk
Avangard Omsk are a professional ice hockey team from Siberia based in the city of Omsk, Russia. They are members of the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.-Overview:...

 owner Roman Abramovich has promised to continue financial support so long as the team maintains good results. Other teams experiencing financial limitations are Vityaz Chekhov
Vityaz Chekhov
Hockey Club Vityaz is a professional ice hockey team based in Chekhov, Moscow, Russia. They are members of the Tarasov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League and are currently coached by former National Hockey League enforcer Andrei Nazarov...

, Atlant Moscow, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Hockey Club Lokomotiv , also known as Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, is a Russian professional ice hockey team based in Yaroslavl. The name of the team is derived from its owner, Russian Railways, the national railroad operator....

, HC CSKA Moscow
HC CSKA Moscow
HC CSKA Moscow is a Russian ice hockey club that plays in the Kontinental Hockey League. It is referred to in the West as "Central Red Army" or the "Red Army Team" for its past affiliation with the Soviet Army, popularly known as the Red Army...

.

As far as the league is concerned it has devised a "crisis package" for dealing with the economic turmoil. Cuts will be made to non-salary expenditures, such as pre-game activity, training camps, and elimination of pre-season tournaments. Mid-level player salaries may also be rolled back. Divisional re-alignment will also take place for the 2009-10 season
2009–10 KHL season
The 2009–10 KHL season was the second season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 10 September 2009 to 27 April 2010, with a break for the Olympic winter games from 8 February to 3 March...

 to cut down on travel costs.

Inaugural All-Star Game

The inaugural KHL All-Star Game
1st Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game
The 1st Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game was the All-Star game for the inaugural 2008–09 Kontinental Hockey League season. It took place on January 10, 2009, at Red Square in Moscow, Russia. The World team won 7–6 over the Russian team....

 took place on January 10, 2009. Each team consisted of ten forwards, five defensemen, and two goaltenders. The starting rosters were voted upon on the KHL.ru website and decided by December 22. The secondary lines and goaltenders were to be voted upon by the media, and announced December 26, with the following players and reserves announced by January 8. The game took place in Moscow's Red Square, with Team Jágr (International All-Stars) defeating Team Yashin (Russian All-Stars) 7–6.

Death of Alexei Cherepanov

On October 13, 2008 during a match between Avangard Omsk
Avangard Omsk
Avangard Omsk are a professional ice hockey team from Siberia based in the city of Omsk, Russia. They are members of the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.-Overview:...

 and Vityaz Chekhov
Vityaz Chekhov
Hockey Club Vityaz is a professional ice hockey team based in Chekhov, Moscow, Russia. They are members of the Tarasov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League and are currently coached by former National Hockey League enforcer Andrei Nazarov...

, forward Alexei Cherepanov
Alexei Cherepanov
Alexei Andreyevich Cherepanov was a Russian professional ice hockey winger who played for Avangard Omsk of the Kontinental Hockey League . The New York Rangers of the National Hockey League drafted Cherepanov with their first selection, seventeenth overall, in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft...

 died due to a heart condition.

On December 29, 2008, Russian investigators revealed that he suffered from myocarditis
Myocarditis
Myocarditis is inflammation of heart muscle . It resembles a heart attack but coronary arteries are not blocked.Myocarditis is most often due to infection by common viruses, such as parvovirus B19, less commonly non-viral pathogens such as Borrelia burgdorferi or Trypanosoma cruzi, or as a...

, a condition where not enough blood gets to the heart, and that he should not have been playing professional hockey. The federal Investigative Committee also announced that a chemical analysis
Analytical chemistry
Analytical chemistry is the study of the separation, identification, and quantification of the chemical components of natural and artificial materials. Qualitative analysis gives an indication of the identity of the chemical species in the sample and quantitative analysis determines the amount of...

 of Cherepanov's blood and urine samples allowed experts to conclude "that for several months Alexei Cherepanov engaged in doping". Official sources have stated the banned substance taken was nikethamide
Nikethamide
Nikethamide is a stimulant which mainly affects the respiratory cycle. Widely known by its former trade name of Coramine, it was used in the mid-1900s as a medical countermeasure against tranquilizer overdoses, before the advent of endotracheal intubation and positive-pressure lung expansion...

, a stimulant
Stimulant
Stimulants are psychoactive drugs which induce temporary improvements in either mental or physical function or both. Examples of these kinds of effects may include enhanced alertness, wakefulness, and locomotion, among others...

, and that it had been taken 3 hours prior to the game in which he died.

Omsk
Avangard Omsk
Avangard Omsk are a professional ice hockey team from Siberia based in the city of Omsk, Russia. They are members of the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.-Overview:...

 club director Mikhail Denisov has since been fired, whereas the league Disciplinary Committee has since removed Omsk's doctors from that role with the club, and has suspended Avangard general manager Anatoly Bardin and team president Konstantin Potapov. The KHL Disciplinary Committee met on this matter on January 5, and also suspended Chekhov's team president.

League standings

Final standings.

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

     Division winner
     Qualified for playoffs


League standings GP W OTW SOW SOL OTL L GF GA Pts
  Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Salavat Yulaev is a professional ice hockey team based in Ufa in the Republic of Bashkortostan, a federal subject of the Russian Federation. They are members of the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey League, and were part of Group C of the 2008–09 Champions Hockey League.-History:The...

56 38 4 1 3 2 8 203 116 129
  Ak Bars Kazan 56 36 1 3 3 3 10 189 123 122
  Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Hockey Club Lokomotiv , also known as Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, is a Russian professional ice hockey team based in Yaroslavl. The name of the team is derived from its owner, Russian Railways, the national railroad operator....

56 32 2 2 4 3 13 175 111 111
  CSKA Moscow
HC CSKA Moscow
HC CSKA Moscow is a Russian ice hockey club that plays in the Kontinental Hockey League. It is referred to in the West as "Central Red Army" or the "Red Army Team" for its past affiliation with the Soviet Army, popularly known as the Red Army...

56 27 4 3 7 4 11 176 141 106
  Atlant Moscow 56 35 3 4 2 1 11 189 111 122
  Metallurg Magnitogorsk
Metallurg Magnitogorsk
Metallurg Magnitogorsk is a professional ice hockey team based in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. They are members of the Kharlamov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League...

56 25 2 11 2 1 15 174 148 104
  Dynamo Moscow
HC Dynamo Moscow
HC Dynamo Moscow was a Russian professional ice hockey club based in Moscow. They were members of the Bobrov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League...

56 27 4 3 3 2 17 184 143 100
  SKA Saint Petersburg
SKA Saint Petersburg
SKA Saint Petersburg is a Russian professional ice hockey club that plays in the Kontinental Hockey League. SKA is an abbreviation for "Sports Club of the Army"...

56 26 2 7 4 0 17 143 105 100
  Spartak Moscow
HC Spartak Moscow
HC Spartak is a professional ice hockey team based in Moscow, Russia. They are members of the Bobrov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League .-History:One of the sections of the Spartak Moscow sports club, HC Spartak Moscow was established in 1946...

56 26 1 5 2 1 21 173 158 93
  Dinamo Riga 56 24 3 2 3 1 23 132 156 86
  Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod is an ice hockey club in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. They are members of the Tarasov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League....

56 24 2 2 3 1 24 162 162 84
  Traktor Chelyabinsk 56 24 0 2 5 3 22 142 166 84
  Lada Togliatti
HC Lada Togliatti
HC Lada is a Russian professional ice hockey team based in Togliatti, Russia. They were members of the Kharlamov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.Due to a lack of a satisfactory arena the KHL expelled the team...

56 21 3 5 2 3 22 120 116 84
  Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 56 22 2 1 5 2 24 146 140 79
  Barys Astana
Barys Astana
Hockey Club Barys is a professional ice hockey team based in Astana, Kazakhstan. They compete in the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.-History:...

56 20 3 4 2 2 25 174 191 78
  Avangard Omsk
Avangard Omsk
Avangard Omsk are a professional ice hockey team from Siberia based in the city of Omsk, Russia. They are members of the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.-Overview:...

56 19 2 6 1 4 24 161 164 78
  Severstal Cherepovets
Severstal Cherepovets
HC Severstal Cherepovets is a professional ice hockey team based in Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast, Russia. They are members of the Tarasov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League.-History:Founded in 1956, the club was originally known as Stroitel Cherepovets...

56 19 1 7 2 2 25 142 171 77
  HC MVD 56 20 2 4 1 0 29 142 159 73
  Sibir Novosibirsk 56 15 1 5 2 5 28 146 172 64
  Amur Khabarovsk
Amur Khabarovsk
Amur Khabarovsk is a professional hockey team based in Khabarovsk, Russia playing in the Kontinental Hockey League...

56 15 2 2 6 1 30 11 158 60
  Metallurg Novokuznetsk
Metallurg Novokuznetsk
Metallurg Novokuznetsk is a professional ice hockey team from Siberia based in Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. They are members of the Chernyshev Division in the Kontinental Hockey League.-History:-Champions:...

56 12 3 2 5 2 31 127 157 54
  Dinamo Minsk
HC Dinamo Minsk
Dinamo Minsk is an ice hockey team based in Minsk, Belarus. They are members of the Tarasov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.Dinamo has qualified for the KHL playoffs only once, during the 2010-11 KHL season....

56 12 1 2 5 2 34 124 197 49
  Vityaz Chekhov
Vityaz Chekhov
Hockey Club Vityaz is a professional ice hockey team based in Chekhov, Moscow, Russia. They are members of the Tarasov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League and are currently coached by former National Hockey League enforcer Andrei Nazarov...

56 6 2 3 7 5 33 134 225 40
  Khimik Voskresensk
Khimik Voskresensk (2005–)
Khimik Voskrenensk , also known as Moscow Hockey Club Khimik, is an ice hockey team based in Voskresensk, Moscow Oblast, Russia. The team plays its home games in the 4,500 seat Podmoskovie Sports Palace, which was previously known as the Khimik Sports Palace.This team is not to be confused HC...

56 8 3 0 7 2 36 108 187 39

Divisional standing

Bobrov Division GP W OTW SOW SOL OTL L GF GA Pts
  Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Salavat Yulaev is a professional ice hockey team based in Ufa in the Republic of Bashkortostan, a federal subject of the Russian Federation. They are members of the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey League, and were part of Group C of the 2008–09 Champions Hockey League.-History:The...

56 38 4 1 3 2 8 203 116 129
  Atlant Moscow 56 35 3 4 2 1 11 189 111 122
  Spartak Moscow
HC Spartak Moscow
HC Spartak is a professional ice hockey team based in Moscow, Russia. They are members of the Bobrov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League .-History:One of the sections of the Spartak Moscow sports club, HC Spartak Moscow was established in 1946...

56 26 1 5 2 1 21 173 158 93
  Severstal Cherepovets
Severstal Cherepovets
HC Severstal Cherepovets is a professional ice hockey team based in Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast, Russia. They are members of the Tarasov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League.-History:Founded in 1956, the club was originally known as Stroitel Cherepovets...

56 19 1 7 2 2 25 142 171 77
  Metallurg Novokuznetsk
Metallurg Novokuznetsk
Metallurg Novokuznetsk is a professional ice hockey team from Siberia based in Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. They are members of the Chernyshev Division in the Kontinental Hockey League.-History:-Champions:...

56 12 3 2 5 2 31 127 157 54
  Dinamo Minsk
HC Dinamo Minsk
Dinamo Minsk is an ice hockey team based in Minsk, Belarus. They are members of the Tarasov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.Dinamo has qualified for the KHL playoffs only once, during the 2010-11 KHL season....

56 12 1 2 5 2 34 124 197 49

Tarasov Division GP W OTW SOW SOL OTL L GF GA Pts
  CSKA Moscow
HC CSKA Moscow
HC CSKA Moscow is a Russian ice hockey club that plays in the Kontinental Hockey League. It is referred to in the West as "Central Red Army" or the "Red Army Team" for its past affiliation with the Soviet Army, popularly known as the Red Army...

56 27 4 3 7 4 11 176 141 106
  Metallurg Magnitogorsk
Metallurg Magnitogorsk
Metallurg Magnitogorsk is a professional ice hockey team based in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. They are members of the Kharlamov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League...

56 25 2 11 2 1 15 174 148 104
  SKA Saint Petersburg
SKA Saint Petersburg
SKA Saint Petersburg is a Russian professional ice hockey club that plays in the Kontinental Hockey League. SKA is an abbreviation for "Sports Club of the Army"...

56 26 2 7 4 0 17 143 105 100
  Traktor Chelyabinsk 56 24 0 2 5 3 22 142 166 84
  HC MVD 56 20 2 4 1 0 29 142 159 73
  Khimik Voskresensk
Khimik Voskresensk (2005–)
Khimik Voskrenensk , also known as Moscow Hockey Club Khimik, is an ice hockey team based in Voskresensk, Moscow Oblast, Russia. The team plays its home games in the 4,500 seat Podmoskovie Sports Palace, which was previously known as the Khimik Sports Palace.This team is not to be confused HC...

56 8 3 0 7 2 36 108 187 39

Kharlamov Division GP W OTW SOW SOL OTL L GF GA Pts
  Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Hockey Club Lokomotiv , also known as Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, is a Russian professional ice hockey team based in Yaroslavl. The name of the team is derived from its owner, Russian Railways, the national railroad operator....

56 32 2 2 4 3 13 175 111 111
  Dinamo Riga 56 24 3 2 3 1 23 132 156 86
  Lada Togliatti
HC Lada Togliatti
HC Lada is a Russian professional ice hockey team based in Togliatti, Russia. They were members of the Kharlamov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.Due to a lack of a satisfactory arena the KHL expelled the team...

56 21 3 5 2 3 22 120 116 84
  Avangard Omsk
Avangard Omsk
Avangard Omsk are a professional ice hockey team from Siberia based in the city of Omsk, Russia. They are members of the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.-Overview:...

56 19 2 6 1 4 24 161 164 78
  Sibir Novosibirsk 56 15 1 5 2 5 28 146 172 64
  Amur Khabarovsk
Amur Khabarovsk
Amur Khabarovsk is a professional hockey team based in Khabarovsk, Russia playing in the Kontinental Hockey League...

56 15 2 2 6 1 30 11 158 60

Chernyshev Division GP W OTW SOW SOL OTL L GF GA Pts
  Ak Bars Kazan 56 36 1 3 3 3 10 189 123 122
  Dynamo Moscow
HC Dynamo Moscow
HC Dynamo Moscow was a Russian professional ice hockey club based in Moscow. They were members of the Bobrov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League...

56 27 4 3 3 2 17 184 143 100
  Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod is an ice hockey club in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. They are members of the Tarasov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League....

56 24 2 2 3 1 24 162 162 84
  Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 56 22 2 1 5 2 24 146 140 79
  Barys Astana
Barys Astana
Hockey Club Barys is a professional ice hockey team based in Astana, Kazakhstan. They compete in the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.-History:...

56 20 3 4 2 2 25 174 191 78
  Vityaz Chekhov
Vityaz Chekhov
Hockey Club Vityaz is a professional ice hockey team based in Chekhov, Moscow, Russia. They are members of the Tarasov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League and are currently coached by former National Hockey League enforcer Andrei Nazarov...

56 6 2 3 7 5 33 134 225 40

League leaders

Goals
Goal (ice hockey)
In ice hockey, a goal is scored when the puck completely crosses the goal line between the two goal posts and below the goal crossbar. A goal awards one point to the team attacking the goal scored upon, regardless of which team the player who actually deflected the puck into the goal belongs to...

  Jan Marek (Magnitogorsk) 35
Assists
Assist (ice hockey)
In ice hockey, an assist is attributed to up to two players of the scoring team who shot, passed or deflected the puck towards the scoring teammate, or touched it in any other way which enabled the goal, meaning that they were "assisting" in the goal. There can be a maximum of two assists per goal...

  Sergei Mozyakin
Sergei Mozyakin
Sergei Mozyakin is a Russian ice hockey winger who is currently plays for Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Kontinental Hockey League ....

 (Atlant)
42
Points
Point (ice hockey)
Point in ice hockey has three official meanings:* A point is awarded to a player for each goal scored or assist earned. The total number of goals plus assists equals total points. In some European leagues, a goal counts as two points, and an assist counts as one...

  Sergei Mozyakin
Sergei Mozyakin
Sergei Mozyakin is a Russian ice hockey winger who is currently plays for Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Kontinental Hockey League ....

 (Atlant)
76
Shots
Shot on goal
In ice hockey, a shot on goal is a shot that will enter the goal if it is not stopped by the goaltender. A shot on goal must result in either a goal or a save....

  Kevin Dallman
Kevin Dallman
Kevin Jonathan Dallman is a Canadian-Kazakhstani professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for and captains Barys Astana of the KHL.-Playing career:...

 (Astana)
218
Plus/minus
Plus/minus
Plus–minus is an ice hockey statistic that measures a player's goal differential. With the exclusion of penalty shot goals, when an even-strength or shorthanded goal is scored, the plus–minus statistic is increased by one for those players on the ice for the team scoring the goal; the plus–minus...

  Alexei Tereschenko (Ufa) +41
Penalty minutes
Penalty (ice hockey)
A penalty in ice hockey is a punishment for inappropriate behavior. Most penalties are enforced by detaining the offending player within a penalty box for a set number of minutes, during which, the player can not participate in play. The offending team usually may not replace the player on the ice,...

  Chris Simon
Chris Simon
Chris Simon is a former Canadian professional ice hockey left winger whose last club was UHC Dynamo of the Kontinental Hockey League . He played 15 seasons in the NHL.-Minor hockey:...

 (Chekhov)
263
Wins (Goaltenders)   Georgi Gelashvili
Georgi Gelashvili
Georgi Kakoyevich Gelashvili is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Kontinental Hockey League.-External links:...

 (Yaroslavl)
30
Goals against average
Goals against average
Goals Against Average is a statistic used in ice hockey, water polo, lacrosse, and soccer that is the mean of goals allowed per game by a goaltender....

  Dmitri Yachanov (SKA) 1.47
Save percentage
Save percentage
Save percentage is an ice hockey and lacrosse statistic that represents the percentage of shots on goal a goaltender stops...

  Vitaly Kolesnik
Vitaly Kolesnik
Vitaly Nikolaevich Kolesnik is a Kazakhstani professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for Salavat Yulaev Ufa of the Kontinental Hockey League .-Playing career:...

 (Atlant)
.945

Goaltenders: minimum 15 games played

Scoring leaders

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/– = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalty minutes
Player Team GP G A Pts +/– PIM
  Atlant Moscow Oblast  56 34 42 76 +34 14
  Metallurg Magnitogorsk
Metallurg Magnitogorsk
Metallurg Magnitogorsk is a professional ice hockey team based in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. They are members of the Kharlamov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League...

 
53 35 37 72 +26 62
  AK Bars Kazan  49 32 39 71 +22 22
  AK Bars Kazan  56 34 31 65 +26 26
  Barys Astana
Barys Astana
Hockey Club Barys is a professional ice hockey team based in Astana, Kazakhstan. They compete in the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.-History:...

 
53 28 30 58 +6 137
  Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Salavat Yulaev is a professional ice hockey team based in Ufa in the Republic of Bashkortostan, a federal subject of the Russian Federation. They are members of the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey League, and were part of Group C of the 2008–09 Champions Hockey League.-History:The...

55 28 30 58 +41 22
  Avangard Omsk
Avangard Omsk
Avangard Omsk are a professional ice hockey team from Siberia based in the city of Omsk, Russia. They are members of the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.-Overview:...

 
55 25 28 53 –1 62
  Atlant Moscow Oblast  56 21 32 53 +21 32
  Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Salavat Yulaev is a professional ice hockey team based in Ufa in the Republic of Bashkortostan, a federal subject of the Russian Federation. They are members of the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey League, and were part of Group C of the 2008–09 Champions Hockey League.-History:The...

 
55 28 24 52 +34 32
  Barys Astana
Barys Astana
Hockey Club Barys is a professional ice hockey team based in Astana, Kazakhstan. They compete in the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.-History:...

 
56 28 24 52 –7 30

Playoffs


Playoff leaders

Source: khl.ru
Goals
Goal (ice hockey)
In ice hockey, a goal is scored when the puck completely crosses the goal line between the two goal posts and below the goal crossbar. A goal awards one point to the team attacking the goal scored upon, regardless of which team the player who actually deflected the puck into the goal belongs to...

  Jukka Hentunen
Jukka Hentunen
Jukka Hentunen is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward, who plays for KalPa.- Draft :He was drafted by the Calgary Flames as their sixth-round pick, #176 overall, in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft....

 (Kazan)
9
Assists
Assist (ice hockey)
In ice hockey, an assist is attributed to up to two players of the scoring team who shot, passed or deflected the puck towards the scoring teammate, or touched it in any other way which enabled the goal, meaning that they were "assisting" in the goal. There can be a maximum of two assists per goal...

  Alexei Morozov (Kazan)
  Alexei Yashin
Alexei Yashin
Alexei Valeryevich Yashin is a Russian professional ice hockey player. He is currently a member of CSKA Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League...

 (Yaroslavl)
11
Points
Point (ice hockey)
Point in ice hockey has three official meanings:* A point is awarded to a player for each goal scored or assist earned. The total number of goals plus assists equals total points. In some European leagues, a goal counts as two points, and an assist counts as one...

  Alexei Morozov (Kazan) 19
Shots
Shot on goal
In ice hockey, a shot on goal is a shot that will enter the goal if it is not stopped by the goaltender. A shot on goal must result in either a goal or a save....

  Danis Zaripov
Danis Zaripov
Danis Zinnurovich Zaripov is a Russian professional ice hockey left winger currently playing for Ak Bars Kazan of the Kontinental Hockey League...

 (Kazan)
71
Plus/minus
Plus/minus
Plus–minus is an ice hockey statistic that measures a player's goal differential. With the exclusion of penalty shot goals, when an even-strength or shorthanded goal is scored, the plus–minus statistic is increased by one for those players on the ice for the team scoring the goal; the plus–minus...

  Ilya Nikulin
Ilya Nikulin
Ilya Vladimirovich Nikulin is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for Ak Bars Kazan of the Kontinental Hockey League . Nikulin was drafted by the Atlanta Thrashers in the second round, 31st overall in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft....

 (Kazan)
+13
Penalty minutes
Penalty (ice hockey)
A penalty in ice hockey is a punishment for inappropriate behavior. Most penalties are enforced by detaining the offending player within a penalty box for a set number of minutes, during which, the player can not participate in play. The offending team usually may not replace the player on the ice,...

  Grigori Panin
Grigori Panin
Grigori Panin is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for Ak Bars Kazan of the Kontinental Hockey League .-External links:*...

 (Kazan)
69
Wins (Goaltenders)   Georgi Gelashvili
Georgi Gelashvili
Georgi Kakoyevich Gelashvili is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Kontinental Hockey League.-External links:...

 (Yaroslavl)
13
Goals against average
Goals against average
Goals Against Average is a statistic used in ice hockey, water polo, lacrosse, and soccer that is the mean of goals allowed per game by a goaltender....

  Vitali Yeremeyev (Dynamo M)
1.63
Save percentage
Save percentage
Save percentage is an ice hockey and lacrosse statistic that represents the percentage of shots on goal a goaltender stops...

  Alexander Pimankin (Nizhny Novgorod)
94.4
Shutout
Shutout
In team sports, a shutout refers to a game in which one team prevents the opposing team from scoring. While possible in most major sports, they are highly improbable in some sports, such as basketball....

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  Georgi Gelashvili
Georgi Gelashvili
Georgi Kakoyevich Gelashvili is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Kontinental Hockey League.-External links:...

 (Yaroslavl)
5

Goaltenders: minimum 5 games played

Scoring leaders

Source: khl.ru
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/– = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalty minutes
Player Team GP G A Pts +/– PIM
  Alexei Morozov  AK Bars Kazan 21 8 11 19 +8 12
  Alexei Yashin
Alexei Yashin
Alexei Valeryevich Yashin is a Russian professional ice hockey player. He is currently a member of CSKA Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League...

 
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Hockey Club Lokomotiv , also known as Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, is a Russian professional ice hockey team based in Yaroslavl. The name of the team is derived from its owner, Russian Railways, the national railroad operator....

19 7 11 18 +3 10
  Tony Martensson
Tony Mårtensson
Tony Mårtensson is a professional Swedish ice hockey center, currently with SKA in KHL. He was born in Upplands Väsby, Sweden.- Playing career :...

 
AK Bars Kazan 21 7 9 16 +10 2
  Mattias Weinhandl
Mattias Weinhandl
Mattias Weinhandl is a Swedish professional ice hockey right winger currently playing for SKA St Petersburg of the Kontinental Hockey League ....

 
Dynamo Moscow
HC Dynamo Moscow
HC Dynamo Moscow was a Russian professional ice hockey club based in Moscow. They were members of the Bobrov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League...

12 6 10 16 +8 4
  Danis Zaripov
Danis Zaripov
Danis Zinnurovich Zaripov is a Russian professional ice hockey left winger currently playing for Ak Bars Kazan of the Kontinental Hockey League...

AK Bars Kazan 21 6 10 16 +9 8

Leading goaltenders

Source: khl.ru
GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save percentage
Save percentage
Save percentage is an ice hockey and lacrosse statistic that represents the percentage of shots on goal a goaltender stops...

; GAA = Goals against average
Goals against average
Goals Against Average is a statistic used in ice hockey, water polo, lacrosse, and soccer that is the mean of goals allowed per game by a goaltender....


Player Team GP Min W L GA SO SV% GAA
  Vitali Yeremeyev  Dynamo Moscow
HC Dynamo Moscow
HC Dynamo Moscow was a Russian professional ice hockey club based in Moscow. They were members of the Bobrov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League...

 
12 700:01 8 4 19 1 .927 1.63
  Stanislav Galimov
Stanislav Galimov
Stanislav Galimov is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender who currently plays for Ak Bars Kazan of the Kontinental Hockey League .-External links:...

 
Ak Bars Kazan  7 396:05 3 2 11 1 .926 1.67
  Jussi Markkanen
Jussi Markkanen
Jussi Markkanen is an ice hockey goaltender for EV Zug of the National League A .-Playing career:Markkanen has played extensively in various European professional leagues as well as the NHL...

 
CSKA Moscow
HC CSKA Moscow
HC CSKA Moscow is a Russian ice hockey club that plays in the Kontinental Hockey League. It is referred to in the West as "Central Red Army" or the "Red Army Team" for its past affiliation with the Soviet Army, popularly known as the Red Army...

 
7 379:16 3 3 11 2 .934 1.74
  Georgi Gelashvili
Georgi Gelashvili
Georgi Kakoyevich Gelashvili is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Kontinental Hockey League.-External links:...

 
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Hockey Club Lokomotiv , also known as Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, is a Russian professional ice hockey team based in Yaroslavl. The name of the team is derived from its owner, Russian Railways, the national railroad operator....

 
19 1,129:56 13 6 33 5 .933 1.75
  Ray Emery
Ray Emery
Ray Emery , often nicknamed Razor or Sugar Ray, is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender, currently with the Chicago Blackhawks. He formerly played for the Anaheim Ducks, Philadelphia Flyers, and the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League and Atlant Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey...

 
Atlant Moscow  7 418:56 4 3 13 1 .941 1.86

Players of the Month

Best KHL players of each month.
Month Goaltender Defense Forward Rookie
September   Alexander Eremenko (Ufa)   Magnus Johansson
Magnus Johansson (ice hockey)
Magnus "Mange" Johansson , is a professional Swedish ice hockey player. He is currently a defenceman and captain for Linköpings HC in the highest Swedish league, Elitserien, and is a former member of the Chicago Blackhawks and Florida Panthers of the NHL and Atlant Moscow Oblast of the KHL-Playing...

 (Atlant)
  Sergei Mozyakin
Sergei Mozyakin
Sergei Mozyakin is a Russian ice hockey winger who is currently plays for Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Kontinental Hockey League ....

 (Atlant)
  Maksim Kitsyn (Novokuznetsk)
October   Vitaly Kolesnik
Vitaly Kolesnik
Vitaly Nikolaevich Kolesnik is a Kazakhstani professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for Salavat Yulaev Ufa of the Kontinental Hockey League .-Playing career:...

 (Atlant)
  Ilya Nikulin
Ilya Nikulin
Ilya Vladimirovich Nikulin is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for Ak Bars Kazan of the Kontinental Hockey League . Nikulin was drafted by the Atlanta Thrashers in the second round, 31st overall in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft....

 (Kazan)
  Jan Marek (Magnitogorsk)   Andrei Kolesnikov
Andrei Kolesnikov (ice hockey)
Andrei Kolesnikov is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk of the Kontinental Hockey League.-External links:...

 (Chekhov)
November   Robert Esche
Robert Esche
Robert L. Esche is an American professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for SCL Tigers of National League A.-Playing career:...

 (St. Petersburg)
  Konstantin Korneyev
Konstantin Korneyev
Konstantin Nikolayevich Korneyev is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for AK Bars Kazan of the Kontinental Hockey League .- Playing career :...

 (CSKA)
  Alexei Tereshchenko
Alexei Tereshchenko
Alexei Vladimirovich Tereshchenko is a Russian professional ice hockey forward, who is currently playing for the Ak Bars Kazan of the Kontinental Hockey League ....

 (Ufa)
  Stanislav Galimov
Stanislav Galimov
Stanislav Galimov is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender who currently plays for Ak Bars Kazan of the Kontinental Hockey League .-External links:...

 (Kazan)
December   Martin Prusek
Martin Prusek
Martin Prusek is a Czech a former professional ice hockey goaltender and currently ice-hockey goaltender coach. Prusek has played in the National Hockey League for the Ottawa Senators and Columbus Blue Jackets...

 (Riga)
  Karel Rachůnek
Karel Rachunek
Karel Rachůnek was a Czech professional ice hockey player. Rachunek was the captain of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League when the team's plane crashed on September 7, 2011. He played eight seasons in North America in the National Hockey League...

 (Dynamo M)
  Danis Zaripov
Danis Zaripov
Danis Zinnurovich Zaripov is a Russian professional ice hockey left winger currently playing for Ak Bars Kazan of the Kontinental Hockey League...

 (Kazan)
  Alexander Vasilev (Chekhov)
January   Vitaliy Yeremeyev
Vitaliy Yeremeyev
Vitaliy Yeremeyev is a Kazakhstani ice hockey goaltender who is currently playing with Barys Astana in the Kontinental Hockey League. He was drafted in the 9th round in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft by the New York Rangers. He played four games for them in the 2000-2001 season before being released...

 (Dynamo M)
  Vitali Proshkin
Vitali Proshkin
Vitali Proshkin is a Russian professional ice hockey defender. He currently plays for Salavat Yulaev Ufa as the team captain.-Honours:*Russian championship: 2000, 2006, 2007*European Champions Cup: 2007...

 (Ufa)
  Alexander Korolyuk
Alexander Korolyuk
Alexander Ivanovich Korolyuk is a Russian professional ice hockey winger who currently plays for HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk in the Kontinental Hockey League.He was drafted in the sixth round, 141st overall, by the San Jose Sharks in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft....

 (Atlant)
  Alexander Vasilev (Chekhov)
February   Dimitrij Kotschnew
Dimitrij Kotschnew
Dimitrij Kotschnew is a German professional ice hockey goaltender who currently plays for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League.Kotschnew played six seasons for the Iserlohn Roosters over two spells...

 (Spartak)
  Peter Podhradský
Peter Podhradský
Peter Podhradský is a Slovak professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays in the Kontinental Hockey League for HC Dinamo Minsk.- Playing career :...

 (Torpedo)
  Danis Zaripov
Danis Zaripov
Danis Zinnurovich Zaripov is a Russian professional ice hockey left winger currently playing for Ak Bars Kazan of the Kontinental Hockey League...

 (Kazan)
  Stepan Zakharchuk
Stepan Zakharchuk
Stepan Zakharchuk is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for Ak Bars Kazan of the Kontinental Hockey League .-External links:...

 (Togliatti)
March   Georgi Gelashvili
Georgi Gelashvili
Georgi Kakoyevich Gelashvili is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Kontinental Hockey League.-External links:...

 (Yaroslavl)
  Ilya Nikulin
Ilya Nikulin
Ilya Vladimirovich Nikulin is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for Ak Bars Kazan of the Kontinental Hockey League . Nikulin was drafted by the Atlanta Thrashers in the second round, 31st overall in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft....

 (Kazan)
  Mattias Weinhandl
Mattias Weinhandl
Mattias Weinhandl is a Swedish professional ice hockey right winger currently playing for SKA St Petersburg of the Kontinental Hockey League ....

 (Dynamo M)

KHL Awards

On 15 May 2009, the KHL held their first award ceremony. A total of 23 different awards were handed out to teams, players, officials and media. The most important trophies are listed in the table below.
Golden Hockey Stick Trophy (regular-season MVP)   Danis Zaripov
Danis Zaripov
Danis Zinnurovich Zaripov is a Russian professional ice hockey left winger currently playing for Ak Bars Kazan of the Kontinental Hockey League...

 (Kazan)
Play-off Master Award (play-off MVP)   Alexei Morozov (Kazan)
Alexei Cherepanov
Alexei Cherepanov
Alexei Andreyevich Cherepanov was a Russian professional ice hockey winger who played for Avangard Omsk of the Kontinental Hockey League . The New York Rangers of the National Hockey League drafted Cherepanov with their first selection, seventeenth overall, in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft...

 Award
(best rookie)
  Ilya Proskuryakov
Ilya Proskuryakov
Ilya Proskuryakov is a goaltender currently playing for Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Kontinental Hockey League.- Playing career :Ilya Proskuryakov began his professional career in 2003, playing with Metallurg-2 Magnitogorsk of the Russian Hockey First League...

(Magnitogorsk)
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