2022–23 KHL season

The 2022–23 KHL season was the 15th season of the Kontinental Hockey League. There were 22 teams that competed in the record-breaking 68 regular season games, beginning on 1 September 2022 and ending on 26 February 2023. 
==Season changes==
For the 2022–23 season, the competition was reduced to 22 teams after Latvian club, Dinamo Riga, and Finnish club, Jokerit, withdrew from the competition during the previous 2021–22 playoffs due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The regular season was expanded to feature 748 games scheduled for 164 gamedays, with each club to play a record-breaking 68 regular season engagements. The regular season was have just one international break, from 12-18 December 2022. That pause was preceded by the 2022 All-Star Week in Chelyabinsk on 10 and 11 of December. 
==Teams==
The 22 teams are split into four divisions: the Bobrov Division and the Tarasov Division as part of the Western Conference, with the Kharlamov Division and the Chernyshev Division as part of the Eastern Conference.
Kunlun Red Star were the only team to be realigned, moving from the Kharalamov Division in the Eastern Conference to the Tarasov Division in the Western Conference.
Western Conference 	Western Conference 	Eastern Conference 	Eastern Conference
Bobrov Division 	Tarasov Division 	Kharlamov Division 	Chernyshev Division
SKA Saint Petersburg 	CSKA Moscow 	Ak Bars Kazan 	Admiral Vladivostok
HC Sochi 	Dinamo Minsk 	Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg	Amur Khabarovsk
Spartak Moscow 	Dynamo Moscow 	Metallurg Magnitogorsk 	Avangard Omsk
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod	Kunlun Red Star 	Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 	Barys Astana
Vityaz Podolsk 	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 	Traktor Chelyabinsk 	Salavat Yulaev Ufa
 	Severstal Cherepovets	 	Sibir Novosibirsk
==League standings==
Each team played 68 games: played every other team home-and-away (42 games), plus an additional 20 intra-conference games (10 home and 10 away games). The remaining 6 games were slated against opposition selected with a view to increasing the number of high-profile match-ups (3 home, 3 on the road). Points were awarded for each game, where two points were awarded for all victories, regardless of whether it was in regulation time, in overtime or after game-winning shots. One point was awarded for losing in overtime or game-winning shots, and zero points for losing in regulation time.
===Western Conference===
===Eastern Conference===
===Continental Cup===
==Gagarin Cup playoffs==
The Gagarin Cup playoffs started on 1 March 2023.CSKA won the Gagarin Cup on April 29 in game 7 of the Gagarin Cup Finals with a score of 2-3
===Bracket=== 
*Pairings within the conferences are re-seeded after the conference quarterfinals
*During the Gagarin Cup Finals the team that finished with higher seed in their conference has home ice (if both teams finished with the same seed the team that earned most points during the regular season has home ice)
*source: KHL
==Statistics==
===Scoring leaders===
The following players led the league in points, at the conclusion of the regular season. If two or more skaters are tied (i.e. same number of points, goals and played games), all of the tied skaters are shown.
Player	Team 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	SKA Saint Petersburg 	67	40	22	62	+21	48
 	Avangard Omsk 	64	23	36	59	+17	31
 	Ak Bars Kazan 	62	25	32	57	+10	66
 	Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg	54	20	36	56	+14	42
 	Avangard Omsk 	68	16	40	56	+6 	20
 	Avangard Omsk 	64	31	24	55	+1 	65
 	Spartak Moscow 	65	19	36	55	–9 	73
 	Sibir Novosibirsk 	67	18	37	55	–2 	50
 	SKA Saint Petersburg 	65	11	44	55	+19	50
 	SKA Saint Petersburg 	65	28	26	54	+9 	36
==References==
==External links==
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Category:Kontinental Hockey League seasons
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Category:2022–23 in Russian ice hockey