2014–15 VHL season

The 2014–2015 Supreme Hockey League season — was the 5th season of SHL Championship and began on September 8 in Karagandy with a match between the finalists of the previous season, Karaganda "Saryarka" and Tyumen "Rubin" with "Saryarka" winning the opening cup holder match. The winner of the regular championship ahead of schedule was also a club from Kazakhstan.
== Clubs ==
In the season 2014/15 the participants of the SHL left three teams: "the Crystal" (Saratov), "Lada" (Togliatti) and "Titan" (Klin). But the participants of the SHL joined team "Bars".
The team of "Navy-Karelia" (Kondopoga) was renamed to "SKA-Karelia".
== Team's roster ==
At any time in the main team may be no more than 27 players, regardless of playing position at the age of 17 years and older, 2 of them are hockey player at the age of 21 years.
Any SHL team have the right to include in the entry form of the team no more than 9 players of hockey club KHL having with KHL team overall organizational and/or financial structure and no more than 4 players for clubs who have signed with KHL team agreement on sports cooperation.
foreign players in one team must be no more than 4 field players . The foreign goalkeeper in Russian teams was prohibited. The foreign team must have not less than five players citizens of the state that represents this club in the SHL.
On any given match a team can have no more than 22 players: 20 players, including 2 goalkeepers and 2 field players aged 17–20 years.
== Regular season ==
=== Format ===
In 2014/2015 season SHL took part 24 teams. For the 1-st teams play double-round tournament. Clubs are divided into six conditional fours on sporting and geographical basis, in which glean additional six matches (three games at "home" and "away"). Thus, in the first stage the teams will play 52 matches.
=== Standings ===
M 	team 	GP	V 	VO	VB	LB	LО	L 	G 	± 	S
1 	Saryarka 	52	32	2 	4 	0 	2 	12	178–108	+70	110
2 	HC Izhstal 	52	26	2 	4 	4 	1 	15	142–118	+24	95
3 	THK Tver 	52	20	2 	12	2 	2 	14	132–107	+25	92
4 	Molot-Prikamye Perm 	52	23	3 	7 	0 	0 	19	139–116	+23	89
5 	HC Lipetsk 	52	22	4 	4 	5 	2 	15	134–121	+13	89
6 	HC Ryazan 	52	24	3 	3 	2 	2 	18	132–122	+10	88
7 	Buran Voronezh 	52	23	1 	4 	5 	0 	19	129–129	0 	84
8 	Toros Neftekamsk 	52	22	3 	1 	8 	2 	16	138–120	+18	84
9 	Zauralie Kurgan 	52	22	2 	3 	4 	3 	18	116–94 	+22	83
10	Dizel Penza 	52	21	3 	2 	4 	6 	16	118–114	+4 	83
11	Rubin Tyumen 	52	20	4 	3 	5 	1 	19	115–115	0 	80
12	Yermak Angarsk 	52	21	2 	3 	1 	3 	22	116–127	–11	77
13	Sputnik Nizhny Tagil	52	20	3 	2 	2 	4 	21	122–144	–22	76
14	HC Kuban 	52	20	2 	4 	1 	2 	23	136–133	+3 	75
15	Kazzinc-Torpedo 	52	19	2 	3 	5 	3 	20	126–143	–17	75
16	Chelmet Chelyabinsk 	52	20	2 	2 	5 	1 	22	112–127	–15	74
17	Dynamo Balashikha 	52	17	3 	5 	3 	1 	23	141–146	–5 	71
18	Yuzhny Ural Orsk 	52	18	2 	3 	3 	3 	23	127–144	–17	70
19	Neftyanik Almetyevsk	52	18	0 	4 	4 	4 	22	140–140	0 	70
20	Ariada Volzhsk 	52	15	4 	3 	7 	2 	21	119–129	–10	68
21	SKA-Karelia 	52	17	3 	2 	4 	2 	24	109–121	–12	67
22	Sokol Krasnoyarsk 	52	17	0 	4 	6 	2 	23	109–130	–21	67
23	HC Sarov 	52	13	0 	5 	7 	1 	26	109–130	–21	57
24	JHC Bars 	52	11	1 	3 	3 	4 	30	109–170	–61	48
=== Player's stats ===
==== Defenders ====
In the nomination "the Best defender in the SHL" by a vote of head coaches of clubs of the SHL defined contenders for the title of best players of the 2014/15 season. This table shows a summary of the regular season and the playoffs. 
№	player 	Club 	Аmplua	GP	G 	A 	S 	+/-	PIM
1	Aleksander Ugolnikov	Saryarka	D 	65	8 	23	31	+34	50
2	Ilya Antonovsky 	Saryarka	D 	64	11	17	28	+22	66
3	Nikolay Zhilin 	Izhstal 	D 	48	9 	10	19	+9 	69
==== Forwards ====
№	player 	club 	amplua	 	 	 	 	+/–	
1	Denis Fakhrutdinov	THK Tver	F 	52	13	32	45	+20	50
2	Oleg Lomako 	Saryarka	F 	48	22	19	41	+24	22
3	Aslan Raisov 	HC Kuban	F 	50	17	20	37	–5 	14
==== Goalkeepers ====
№	player 	club 	 	 	 	 	% 	 	
1	Gleb Evdokimov 	Zauralie Kurgan	33	15	10	94.2	1.54	4	1903:58
2	Vladimir Kovac 	Saryarka 	31	21	5 	92.9	1.59	4	1733:08
3	Sergei Khoroshun	THK Tver 	39	17	9 	93.8	1.78	3	2295:42
== Playoffs ==
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