2011–12 KHL season
Encyclopedia
The 2011–12 KHL season is the fourth 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...

 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....

. The regular season originally began on 7 September 2011 with the Opening Cup game, but because of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash
The Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash occurred at 16:05 MT on Wednesday, 7 September 2011, when a Yak-Service Yakovlev Yak-42, carrying the players and coaching staff of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl professional ice hockey team, crashed near the Russian city of Yaroslavl...

, which killed all but one member of the 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....

 team, the start of the season was postponed to 12 September 2011. The tragedy forced Lokomotiv Yaroslavl to cancel their participation
2011–12 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl season
The 2011–12 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl season will to be the franchise's 52nd season of play in professional ice hockey in Russia. It was supposed to be its fourth season in the Kontinental Hockey League . The season was scheduled to start on September 8, 2011...

 in this KHL season.
The regular season is scheduled to end on 26 February 2012, with the following playoffs to end in April 2012.

Team changes

Expansion to Slovakia

With the admission of Lev Poprad
Lev Poprad
Hockey Club Lev , also known as HC Lev Poprad, is a professional ice hockey team based in Poprad, Slovakia that plays in the Kontinental Hockey League .-History:...

 from Poprad
Poprad
Poprad is a city in northern Slovakia at the foot of the High Tatra Mountains famous for its picturesque historic centre and as a holiday resort. It is the biggest town of the Spiš region and the tenth largest city in Slovakia with a population of approximately 55,000.The Poprad-Tatry Airport is...

, Slovakia
Slovakia
The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...

 the league expands beyond the borders of the former Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

. This had brought the number of teams to 24. However, following a plane crash
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash
The Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash occurred at 16:05 MT on Wednesday, 7 September 2011, when a Yak-Service Yakovlev Yak-42, carrying the players and coaching staff of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl professional ice hockey team, crashed near the Russian city of Yaroslavl...

 that claimed the lives of the entire 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....

 squad, Lokomotiv withdrew from the season, leaving only 23 teams as in the previous season.

Regular season

The regular season was supposed to start on 7 September 2011 with the Opening Cup and end on 26 February 2012 with short breaks in November, December and February for international matches and for the all-star game. However, after the Yaroslavl plane tragedy the schedule had to be modified: the start of the season was postponed to 12 September and the number of games for each team was reduced to 54 as a in the previous season, when also only 23 teams participated.

Yaroslavl plane tragedy

On 7 September 2011, the day of the season opening, a tragic airplane accident occurred in Yaroslavl
Yaroslavl
Yaroslavl is a city and the administrative center of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located northeast of Moscow. The historical part of the city, a World Heritage Site, is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Kotorosl Rivers. It is one of the Golden Ring cities, a group of historic cities...

 in which the 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....

 team was killed. After the news broke in Ufa
Ufa
-Demographics:Nationally, dominated by Russian , Bashkirs and Tatars . In addition, numerous are Ukrainians , Chuvash , Mari , Belarusians , Mordovians , Armenian , Germans , Jews , Azeris .-Government and administration:Local...

, where the Opening Cup
Opening Cup
The Lokomotiv Cup , formerly the Opening Cup , is the trophy awarded to the winner of the first game of every regular season of the Kontinental Hockey League. This match is played between the previous season's play-off champion and runner-up. The game is played on the home ice of the previous...

 game between 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...

 and Atlant Moscow Oblast was already underway, the match was abandoned. Later, the KHL announced that the start of the season would be postponed to 12 September, and that pre-game ceremonies would be held to honour the Lokomotiv team, while arena entertainment would be cancelled. On 10 September, at Lokomotiv's public memorial service team president Yuri Yakovlev announced that they would not participate in the 2011–12 KHL season.

All-star game

The All-star weekend
4th Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game
The 4th Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game will be the All-Star game for the 2011-12 season of the Kontinental Hockey League . It will take place on 21 and 22 January 2012 at the Arena Riga in Rīga, Latvia.-External links:*...

 will take place on 20–21 January 2012 in Riga
Riga
Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 702,891 inhabitants Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial,...

, Latvia
Latvia
Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

.

League standings

Updated as of 4 November 2011. Source: KHL.ru

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 will determine the seedings for the play-offs. The first two places in each conference are reserved for the division leaders.

Western conference

R Div GP W OTW SOW SOL OTL L GF GA Pts
1 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"...

 *
BOB 24 15 1 3 1 1 3 89 48 55
2 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....

 *
TAR 27 11 0 4 1 3 8 76 66 45
3 UHC Dynamo
UHC Dynamo
Unified Hockey Club Dynamo , or simply Dynamo Moscow, is a Russian professional ice hockey club based in Moscow. They are members of the Kontinental Hockey League. The team was created in 2010 after the merger of HC Dynamo and HC MVD...

BOB 26 16 0 2 0 0 8 76 56 52
4 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....

TAR 25 12 0 3 2 0 8 70 56 44
5 Atlant Moscow Oblast TAR 23 11 2 2 1 0 7 61 57 42
6 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...

TAR 24 12 0 1 1 1 9 70 65 40
7 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...

BOB 26 10 2 0 5 0 9 60 58 39
8 Dinamo Riga
Dinamo Riga
Dinamo Riga was an ice hockey club, based in Riga, Latvia. It was founded in 1946 and disestablished in 1995 as Pārdaugava Rīga.-History of Dinamo Riga:...

BOB 26 9 1 2 4 0 10 64 70 37
8.5
9 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...

BOB 25 7 1 2 0 1 14 59 83 29
10 Lev Poprad
Lev Poprad
Hockey Club Lev , also known as HC Lev Poprad, is a professional ice hockey team based in Poprad, Slovakia that plays in the Kontinental Hockey League .-History:...

BOB 26 7 0 1 2 2 14 68 81 27
11 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...

TAR 26 5 0 4 0 1 16 53 86 24
|align=left| 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....

Withdrew due to Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash
The Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash occurred at 16:05 MT on Wednesday, 7 September 2011, when a Yak-Service Yakovlev Yak-42, carrying the players and coaching staff of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl professional ice hockey team, crashed near the Russian city of Yaroslavl...


* – Division leader


Source: khl.ru

Eastern conference

R Div GP W OTW SOW SOL OTL L GF GA Pts
1 Traktor Chelyabinsk * KHA 25 16 0 2 1 0 6 75 52 53
2 Amur Khabarovsk
Amur Khabarovsk
Amur Khabarovsk is a professional hockey team based in Khabarovsk, Russia playing in the Kontinental Hockey League...

 *
CHE 26 14 0 3 1 0 8 85 65 49
3 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:...

CHE 27 12 0 3 1 1 10 65 56 44
4 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...

KHA 26 12 1 0 1 0 12 75 71 39
5 Ak Bars Kazan KHA 25 12 0 1 0 1 11 73 67 39
6 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:...

CHE 24 11 0 0 2 0 10 61 73 37
7 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...

CHE 27 8 1 3 3 1 11 81 85 36
8 Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk KHA 25 8 1 3 1 2 10 61 61 35
8.5
9 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:...

CHE 25 8 1 0 5 0 11 44 63 31
10 Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk KHA 25 8 0 2 3 0 12 65 79 31
11 Sibir Novosibirsk CHE 24 6 1 1 4 0 12 63 68 26
12 Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
Avtomobilist is a professional ice hockey team based in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. They replaced Khimik Voskresensk in the Kontinental Hockey League in 2009.-External links:...

KHA 23 4 1 0 3 0 15 46 74 17

* – Division leader

Source: khl.ru

Scoring leaders

Updated as of 25 November 2011. Source: khl.ru
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/– = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalty minutes
Player Team GP G A Pts +/– PIM
Vadim Schipachev
Vadim Schipachev
Vadim Schipachev is a Russian professional ice hockey forward who currently plays for HC Severstal of the Kontinental Hockey League .-Regular season and playoffs:-External links:...

 
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...

24 13 22 35 +12 10
Jakub Petružálek
Jakub Petružálek
Jakub Petružálek is a Czech professional ice hockey center currently playing with Russian team Amur Khabarovsk of the KHL.-Playing career:Petružálek was drafted by the New York Rangers, 266th overall in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft...

 
Amur Khabarovsk
Amur Khabarovsk
Amur Khabarovsk is a professional hockey team based in Khabarovsk, Russia playing in the Kontinental Hockey League...

26 12 18 30 +13 4
Miķelis Rēdlihs
Mikelis Redlihs
Miķelis Rēdlihs is a Latvian ice hockey forward, currently playing for Dinamo Riga of Kontinental Hockey League. He has played for Latvian national team in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 World Championships...

Dinamo Riga
Dinamo Riga
Dinamo Riga was an ice hockey club, based in Riga, Latvia. It was founded in 1946 and disestablished in 1995 as Pārdaugava Rīga.-History of Dinamo Riga:...

26 6 23 29 +1 14
Petr Vrána
Petr Vrána
Petr Vrána is a professional ice hockey centre. He was drafted in the second round, 42nd overall, by the New Jersey Devils in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft.played with the halifax mooseheads in junior...

 
Amur Khabarovsk
Amur Khabarovsk
Amur Khabarovsk is a professional hockey team based in Khabarovsk, Russia playing in the Kontinental Hockey League...

26 13 14 27 +12 8
Sergei Shirokov
Sergei Shirokov
Sergei Sergeyevich Shirokov is a Russian professional ice hockey winger currently with HC CSKA Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League . Drafted 163rd overall in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft, he is a prospect for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League...

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...

26 9 17 26 +7 20
Tony Mårtensson
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 :...

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"...

24 8 18 26 +23 6
Roman Červenka
Roman Červenka
Roman Červenka is a Czech professional ice hockey player who plays for Avangard Omsk of the Kontinental Hockey League ....

 
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:...

27 17 7 24 –3 10
Vladimir Tarasenko
Vladimir Tarasenko
Vladimir Andreyevich Tarasenko is a Russian professional ice hockey forward for HC Sibir of the Kontinental Hockey League . Tarasenko has played for the Russian junior team three times, winning a silver medal at the 2009 IIHF World U18 Championships, sixth place at the 2010 World Junior Ice Hockey...

 
Sibir Novosibirsk 24 11 12 23 +3 6
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...

 
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...

23 8 15 23 –5 18
Geoff Platt
Geoff Platt
Geoff Platt is a Canadian ice hockey player, currently contracted to HC Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League.- Career :...

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....

27 9 13 22 –1 22

Leading goaltenders

Updated as of 25 November 2011. Source: khl.ru
GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; SOL = Shootout 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 SOP GA SO SV% GAA
Jakub Štěpánek
Jakub Štěpánek
Jakub Štěpánek is a Czech professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for SKA St. Petersburg of the Kontinental Hockey League . Štěpánek began his professional career with HC Vítkovice of the Czech Extraliga in 2006...

 
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"...

 
13 766:57 9 3 1 23 1 .934 1.80
Vitali Koval
Vitali Koval
Vitaly Nikolayevich Koval is a Belarusian professional ice hockey goaltender. He currently plays for Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod of the Kontinental Hockey League...

 
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....

 
18 966:46 8 5 5 30 3 .928 1.86
Alexander Eremenko  UHC Dynamo
UHC Dynamo
Unified Hockey Club Dynamo , or simply Dynamo Moscow, is a Russian professional ice hockey club based in Moscow. They are members of the Kontinental Hockey League. The team was created in 2010 after the merger of HC Dynamo and HC MVD...

 
22 1207:36 12 5 2 39 4 .922 1.94
Alexei Murygin
Alexei Murygin
Alexei Murygin is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender who currently plays for Amur Khabarovsk of the Kontinental Hockey League .-External links:...

 
Amur Khabarovsk
Amur Khabarovsk
Amur Khabarovsk is a professional hockey team based in Khabarovsk, Russia playing in the Kontinental Hockey League...

 
12 725:53 12 7 3 24 2 .938 1.98
Michael Garnett
Michael Garnett
Michael Garnett is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for Traktor Chelyabinsk of the Kontinental Hockey League...

 
Traktor Chelyabinsk  22 1328:05 15 5 2 44 2 .917 1.99

Players of the Month

Best KHL players of each month.
Month Goaltender Defense Forward Rookie
September   Jakub Štěpánek
Jakub Štěpánek
Jakub Štěpánek is a Czech professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for SKA St. Petersburg of the Kontinental Hockey League . Štěpánek began his professional career with HC Vítkovice of the Czech Extraliga in 2006...

 (SKA)
  Aleksandr Osipov
Aleksandr Osipov
Alexander Sergeyevich Osipov is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for HC Amur Khabarovsk of the Kontinental Hockey League.-External links:...

 (Amur)
  Vadim Schipachev
Vadim Schipachev
Vadim Schipachev is a Russian professional ice hockey forward who currently plays for HC Severstal of the Kontinental Hockey League .-Regular season and playoffs:-External links:...

 (Severstal)
  Andrei Sergeev
Andrei Sergeev
Andrei Sergeev is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for HC CSKA Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League .-External links:...

 (CSKA)
October   Michael Garnett
Michael Garnett
Michael Garnett is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for Traktor Chelyabinsk of the Kontinental Hockey League...

 (Traktor)
  Vitaly Shulakov
Vitaly Shulakov
Vitaly Shulakov is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for Amur Khabarovsk of the Kontinental Hockey League .-External links:...

 (Amur)
  Vladimir Tarasenko
Vladimir Tarasenko
Vladimir Andreyevich Tarasenko is a Russian professional ice hockey forward for HC Sibir of the Kontinental Hockey League . Tarasenko has played for the Russian junior team three times, winning a silver medal at the 2009 IIHF World U18 Championships, sixth place at the 2010 World Junior Ice Hockey...

 (Sibir)
  Nikita Tochitsky (Vityaz)
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