2017–18 KHL season

The 2017–18 KHL season is the tenth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The season started on 21 August 2017 and ended on 22 April 2018.
The league accommodated a 33 day Olympic break, to allow its players to participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics in February.
==Team changes==
The Croatian club Medveščak Zagreb relocated back to the Austrian Hockey League, and Russian club Metallurg Novokuznetsk was relegated to the Supreme Hockey League, to bring the total number of KHL teams to 27.
March 2018 KHL announced that two teams going to drop out after this season and next season have 25 teams. Yugra and Lada Togliatti are the teams that will not continue in KHL.
==Divisions and regular season format==
In this season, like in the 2016–17 season, each team will play every other team once at home and once on the road, giving a total of 52 games (26 at home, 26 on the road), plus 4 additional games (2 at home, 2 on the road) played by each team against rival clubs from its own conference. Thus, each team played a total of 56 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 	Avangard Omsk 	
SKA Saint Petersburg	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 	Metallurg Magnitogorsk 	Barys Astana
Slovan Bratislava 	Severstal Cherepovets 	Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 	HC Kunlun Red Star
Spartak Moscow 	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod	Traktor Chelyabinsk 	Salavat Yulaev Ufa
 	Vityaz Podolsk 	Sibir Novosibirsk 	
==League standings==
===Western Conference===
Team 	GP	W 	OW	OL	L 	GF 	GA 	GD 	Pts
SKA Saint Petersburg 	56	40	7 	4 	5 	227	97 	+130	138
CSKA Moscow 	56	35	9 	1 	11	175	89 	+86 	124
Jokerit 	56	29	4 	8 	15	151	108	+43 	103
Lokomotiv Yaroslav 	56	26	9 	3 	18	148	129	+19 	99
Torpedo Nizhni Novgorod	56	23	6 	8 	19	116	127	-11 	89
HC Sochi 	56	22	7 	7 	20	130	138	-8 	87
Spartak Moscow 	56	22	7 	5 	22	153	146	+7 	85
Severstal Cherepovets 	56	18	9 	11	18	131	145	-14 	83
Dynamo Moscow 	56	19	9 	5 	23	134	139	-5 	80
Dinamo Minsk 	56	20	5 	3 	28	112	129	-17 	73
Vityaz Podolsk 	56	17	4 	8 	27	131	160	-29 	67
Slovan Bratislava 	56	15	3 	7 	31	119	187	-68 	58
Dinamo Riga 	56	9 	7 	9 	31	105	153	-48 	50
===Eastern Conference===
Team 	GP	W 	OW	OL	L 	GF 	GA 	GD 	Pts
Ak Bars Kazan 	56	30	2 	6 	18	158	126	+32	100
Salavat Yulaev Ufa 	56	26	5 	5 	20	151	139	+12	93
Traktor Chelyabinsk 	56	26	7 	4 	19	129	121	+8 	96
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg	56	25	6 	8 	17	165	137	+28	95
Metallurg Magnitogorsk 	56	24	8 	7 	17	150	135	+15	95
Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 	56	27	3 	7 	19	135	135	0 	94
Avangard Omsk 	56	22	7 	8 	19	146	116	+30	88
Amur Khabarovsk 	56	21	8 	9 	18	132	141	-9 	88
Sibir Novosibirsk 	56	23	8 	2 	23	136	135	+1 	87
Barys Astana 	56	19	5 	7 	25	148	164	-16	74
Admiral Vladivostok 	56	16	5 	5 	30	120	145	-25	63
HC Kunlun Red Star 	56	15	4 	8 	29	103	146	-43	61
Lada Togliatti 	56	12	4 	6 	34	105	149	-44	50
Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk 	56	7 	10	7 	32	93 	167	-74	48
==Gagarin Cup playoffs==
==Final standings==
Rank	Team
1 	Ak Bars Kazan
2 	CSKA Moscow
3 	SKA Saint Petersburg
4 	Traktor Chelyabinsk
5 	Jokerit
6 	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
7 	Metallurg Magnitogorsk
8 	Salavat Yulaev Ufa
9 	Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
10 	Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk
11 	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
12 	Avangard Omsk
13 	Amur Khabarovsk
14 	HC Sochi
15 	Spartak Moscow
16 	Severstal Cherepovets
17 	Sibir Novosibirsk
18 	Dynamo Moscow
19 	Barys Astana
20 	Dinamo Minsk
21 	Vityaz Podolsk
22 	Admiral Vladivostok
23 	Kunlun Red Star
24 	Slovan Bratislava
25 	Lada Togliatti
26 	Dinamo Riga
27 	Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk
==Player statistics==
===Scoring leaders===
 
As of 1 March 2018
Player 	Team 	GP	G 	A 	Pts	+/–	PIM
Ilya Kovalchuk	SKA Saint Petersburg	53	31	32	63 	+12	26
Nikita Gusev 	SKA Saint Petersburg	54	22	40	62 	+25	2
Nigel Dawes 	Barys Astana 	46	35	21	56 	+5 	26
Linus Omark 	Salavat Yulaev Ufa 	55	16	39	55 	+6 	60
Linden Vey 	Barys Astana 	50	17	35	52 	+1 	64
Source: KHL
===Leading goaltenders===
As of 1 March 2018
Player 	Team 	GP	Min 	W 	L 	SOP	GA	SO	SV% 	GAA
Lars Johansson 	CSKA Moscow 	21	1192:53	15	4 	0 	26	6 	.938	1.31
Mikko Koskinen 	SKA Saint Petersburg	29	1718:12	22	4 	1 	45	5 	.937	1.57
Ilya Sorokin 	CSKA Moscow 	37	2182:35	25	8 	4 	58	8 	.931	1.59
Igor Shestyorkin	SKA Saint Petersburg	28	1592:34	20	4 	4 	45	7 	.933	1.70
Ryan Zapolski 	Jokerit 	39	2352:26	24	11	4 	69	9 	.931	1.76
Source: KHL
==Awards==
===Players of the Month===
Best KHL players of each month.
Month 	Goaltender 	Defense 	Forward 	Rookie
September	Stanislav Galimov (Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod)	Patrik Hersley (SKA Saint Petersburg) 	Nigel Dawes (Barys Astana) 	Eeli Tolvanen (Jokerit)
October 	Ryan Zapolski (Jokerit) 	Nikita Tryamkin (Avtomobilist Jekaterinburg)	Nigel Dawes (Barys Astana) 	Eeli Tolvanen (Jokerit)
November 	Vasily Koshechkin (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) 	Nikita Tryamkin (Avtomobilist Jekaterinburg)	Zach Boychuk (Slovan Bratislava) 	Alexander Petunin (Dynamo Moscow)
December 	Ilya Sorokin (CSKA Moscow) 	Oleg Piganovich (Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk) 	Alexander Bergström (Sibir Novosibirsk)	Alexander Petunin (Dynamo Moscow)
January 	Pavel Francouz (Traktor Chelyabinsk) 	Philip Larsen (Salavat Yulaev Ufa) 	Alexander Khokhlachev (Spartak Moscow) 	Rafael Bikmullin (Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk)
==References==
==External links==
* Season schedule 2017–18
Category:Kontinental Hockey League seasons
Category:2018 in hockey