2015–16 KHL season

The 2015–16 KHL season was the eighth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The season started on 24 August 2015 with the Opening Cup between defending champions SKA Saint Petersburg and last year's Continental Cup winners CSKA Moscow, replacing Ak Bars Kazan, the previous season's Gagarin Cup finalists.
==Team changes==
Spartak Moscow returned to the league prior to this season. (in Russian), www.Iltalehti.fi, (in Finnish) It was also announced by KHL President Dmitry Chernyshenko that Atlant Moscow Oblast would not participate in the league this season due to financial problems., www.championat.com, (in Russian)
==Divisions and regular season format==
In this season, each team played every other team once at home and once on the road, giving a total of 54 games (27 at home, 27 on the road), plus 6 additional games (3 at home, 3 on the road) played by each team against rival clubs from its own conference. Thus, each team played a total of 60 games in the regular season.
How the teams are divided into divisions and conferences is shown in the table below.
Western Conference	Eastern Conference
Bobrov Division 	Tarasov Division 	Kharlamov Division 	Chernyshev Division
Dinamo Minsk 	CSKA Moscow 	Ak Bars Kazan 	Admiral Vladivostok
Dinamo Riga 	Dynamo Moscow 	Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg	Amur Khabarovsk
Jokerit 	HC Sochi 	Lada Togliatti 	Avangard Omsk
Medveščak Zagreb 	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 	Metallurg Magnitogorsk 	Barys Astana
SKA Saint Petersburg	Severstal Cherepovets 	Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 	Metallurg Novokuznetsk
Slovan Bratislava 	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod	Traktor Chelyabinsk 	Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Spartak Moscow 	Vityaz Podolsk 	Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk 	Sibir Novosibirsk
== League standings ==
=== Western Conference ===
=== Eastern Conference ===
==Gagarin Cup Playoffs==
The playoffs started on February 21, 2016, with the top eight teams from each of the conferences and ended with the last game of the Gagarin Cup final on April 19, 2016.
== Final standings ==
Rank	Team
1 	Metallurg Magnitogorsk
2 	CSKA Moscow
3 	Salavat Yulaev Ufa
4 	SKA Saint Petersburg
5 	Avangard Omsk
6 	Dynamo Moscow
7 	Sibir Novosibirsk
8 	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
9 	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
10 	Jokerit
11 	HC Sochi
12 	Ak Bars Kazan
13 	Admiral Vladivostok
14 	Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
15 	Slovan Bratislava
16 	Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk
17 	Barys Astana
18 	Dinamo Minsk
19 	Traktor Chelyabinsk
20 	Medveščak Zagreb
21 	Spartak Moscow
22 	Dinamo Riga
23 	Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk
24 	Vityaz Podolsk
25 	Amur Khabarovsk
26 	Lada Togliatti
27 	Severstal Cherepovets
28 	Metallurg Novokuznetsk
==Player statistics==
===Scoring leaders===
 
As of 18 February 2016
Player 	Team 	GP	G 	A 	Pts	+/–	PIM
Sergei Mozyakin 	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	57	32	35	67 	+11	0
Alexander Radulov	CSKA Moscow 	53	23	42	65 	+28	73
Brandon Bochenski	Barys Astana 	60	20	41	61 	+16	48
Vadim Shipachyov 	SKA Saint Petersburg 	54	17	43	60 	−8 	63
Linus Omark 	Salavat Yulaev Ufa 	60	18	39	57 	+12	40
Matt Ellison 	Dinamo Minsk 	54	26	29	55 	−10	54
Danis Zaripov 	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	60	22	32	54 	+9 	26
Nigel Dawes 	Barys Astana 	55	31	22	53 	+15	16
Justin Azevedo 	Ak Bars Kazan 	59	17	36	53 	+6 	26
Jan Kovář 	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	58	20	32	52 	+7 	61
Source: KHL
===Leading goaltenders===
As of 18 February 2016
Player 	Team 	GP	Min 	W 	L	SOP	GA	SO	SV% 	GAA
Ilya Sorokin 	CSKA Moscow 	28	1638:53	17	7	4 	29	10	.953	1.06
Alexei Murygin 	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	34	1962:29	22	8	3 	37	13	.954	1.13
Stanislav Galimov 	CSKA/Ak Bars 	28	1669:11	18	6	4 	42	7 	.938	1.51
Viktor Fasth 	CSKA Moscow 	20	1122:04	13	4	1 	31	3 	.921	1.66
Alexander Yeryomenko	Dynamo Moscow 	23	1392:08	11	4	7 	41	2 	.936	1.77
Source: KHL
==Awards==
===Players of the Month===
Best KHL players of each month.
Month 	Goaltender 	Defense 	Forward 	Rookie
September	Alexei Murygin (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl)	Mat Robinson (Dynamo Moscow) 	Sergei Mozyakin (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) 	Roman Manukhov (Metallurg Novokuznetsk)
October 	Alexander Salák (Sibir Novosibirsk) 	Mikhail Pashnin (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl) 	Nigel Dawes (Barys Astana) 	Artyom Zub (Amur Khabarovsk)
November 	Danny Taylor (Medveščak Zagreb) 	Staffan Kronwall (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl)	Anatoly Golyshev (Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg)	Alexander Polunin (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl)
December 	Dominik Furch (Avangard Omsk) 	Kevin Dallman (Barys Astana) 	Danis Zaripov (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) 	Vladislav Gavrikov (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl)
January 	Ilya Sorokin (CSKA Moscow) 	Mat Robinson (Dynamo Moscow) 	Vadim Shipachyov (SKA St. Petersburg) 	Igor Ustinsky (Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg)
February 	Alexander Yeryomenko (Dynamo Moscow)	Anton Belov (SKA St. Petersburg) 	Peter Regin (Jokerit) 	Artur Lauta (Avangard Omsk)
March 	Ilya Sorokin (CSKA Moscow) 	Denis Denisov (CSKA Moscow) 	Sergei Mozyakin (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) 	Yuri Sergiyenko (Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod)
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==Milestones==
==References==
==External links==
*Season schedule 2015–16
*Season regulations 2015–16
Category:Kontinental Hockey League seasons
Category:2016 in hockey