2014-15 KHL season

The 2014–15 KHL season is the seventh season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The season started on 3 September with the Opening Cup between defending champions Metallurg Magnitogorsk and Dynamo Moscow, replacing Lev Praha, last year's runner up not participating this season.
==Team changes==
Prior to the season, the KHL added three more teams: Jokerit from Helsinki, Lada Togliatti (an earlier member of the KHL that spent the last four seasons in the VHL) and HC Sochi, an expansion team from Sochi.
HC Donbass did not play in the league this season, due to Russian invasion of Ukraine which culminated in a devastating fire at their home arena. Donbass intended to rejoin KHL for the 2015–16 season, but ultimately joined the new Ukrainian Hockey Extra League. HC Lev Praha didn't participate in KHL this season either, because of financial problems. In addition, Spartak Moscow did not participate in the league this season, after missing the deadline for shoring up its finances.
==Divisions and regular season format==
New for this season, is that the teams primarily play games against teams in their own division, and secondarily against teams in their own conference, and finally against teams in the other conference. According to the new format (subject to final approval by the League management) each team will play a total of 60 games during the regular season as follows:
* 24 games against the other teams in their division (two at home and two on the road against each opponent), 
* 14 games (one at home and one on the road against each opponent), against the teams in the other division in their conference, 
* 14 more against teams from the other conference (comprising seven home games versus teams from one division and seven road games against teams from the other),
* 8 games where four will be against teams in their own conference (two at home, two on the road) and four against opposition from the other conference (again, two at home and two on the road). When determining the opponents and venues for these additional 8 games, the League consider practical things, including the geographical locations and the availability of the arenas.
How the teams are divided into divisions and conferences are shown in the table below.
Western Conference	Eastern Conference
Bobrov Division 	Tarasov Division 	Kharlamov Division 	Chernyshev Division
Jokerit 	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod	Ak Bars Kazan 	Admiral Vladivostok
Dinamo Minsk 	CSKA Moscow 	Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg	Amur Khabarovsk
Dinamo Riga 	Dynamo Moscow 	Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk 	Avangard Omsk
Atlant Moscow Oblast	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 	Metallurg Magnitogorsk 	Barys Astana
Medveščak Zagreb 	Severstal Cherepovets 	Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 	Metallurg Novokuznetsk
SKA Saint Petersburg	HC Sochi 	Lada Togliatti 	Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Slovan Bratislava 	Vityaz Podolsk 	Traktor Chelyabinsk 	Sibir Novosibirsk
==Regular season==
The regular season began on 3 September 2014 with the Opening Cup between Metallurg Magnitogorsk and Dynamo Moscow. Metallurg won the game 6–1.
===Player statistics===
====Scoring leaders====
 
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/– = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalty minutes
Player 	Team 	GP	G 	A 	Pts	+/–	PIM
Alexander Radulov	CSKA Moscow 	46	24	47	71 	+37	143
Jan Kovář 	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	60	24	44	68 	+15	50
Danis Zaripov 	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	60	24	40	64 	+13	40
Stéphane Da Costa	CSKA Moscow 	46	30	32	62 	+26	12
Artemy Panarin 	SKA Saint Petersburg 	54	26	36	62 	+18	37
Charles Linglet 	Dinamo Minsk 	54	22	36	58 	–2 	59
Steve Moses 	Jokerit 	60	36	21	57 	+11	20
Matt Ellison 	Dinamo Minsk 	58	24	33	57 	–2 	38
Nigel Dawes 	Barys Astana 	60	32	24	56 	+18	48
Denis Parshin 	Avangard Omsk 	60	25	31	56 	+18	40
====Leading goaltenders====
GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; SOP = Shootouts played; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average
Player 	Team 	GP	Min 	W 	L	SOP	GA	SO	SV% 	GAA
Kevin Lalande 	CSKA Moscow 	23	1297:10	16	3	2 	30	6 	.934	1.39
Alexander Lazushin	Dynamo Moscow	21	1156:59	13	3	1 	28	5 	.946	1.45
Anders Nilsson 	Ak Bars Kazan	38	2247:52	20	9	8 	64	5 	.936	1.71
Emil Garipov 	Ak Bars Kazan	23	1383:26	16	5	2 	41	1 	.933	1.78
Stanislav Galimov 	CSKA Moscow 	35	2055:31	23	5	5 	61	6 	.919	1.78
==Russian Ice Hockey Championship==
At the end of the regular season of the KHL Championship the following teams became medalists of the Russian Ice Hockey Championship:KHL Sports Regulations. Seasons 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017
Rank 	Team
rowspan="1" align="center"	CSKA Moscow
rowspan="1" align="center"	SKA Saint Petersburg
rowspan="1" align="center"	Dynamo Moscow
==Playoffs==
The playoffs started on February 27, 2015, with the top eight teams from each of the conferences and will end with the last game of the Gagarin Cup final.
== Final standings ==
Rank	Team
1 	SKA Saint Petersburg
2 	Ak Bars Kazan
3 	CSKA Moscow
4 	Sibir Novosibirsk
5 	Dynamo Moscow
6 	Jokerit
7 	Metallurg Magnitogorsk
8 	Avangard Omsk
9 	Dinamo Minsk
10 	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
11 	Barys Astana
12 	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
13 	HC Sochi
14 	Salavat Yulaev Ufa
15 	Traktor Chelyabinsk
16 	Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
17 	Atlant Moscow Oblast
18 	Severstal Cherepovets
19 	Admiral Vladivostok
20 	Vityaz Podolsk
21 	Dinamo Riga
22 	Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk
23 	Medveščak Zagreb
24 	Lada Togliatti
25 	Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk
26 	Slovan Bratislava
27 	Metallurg Novokuznetsk
28 	Amur Khabarovsk
==Awards==
===Players of the Month===
Best KHL players of each month.
Month 	Goaltender 	Defense 	Forward 	Rookie
September	Stanislav Galimov (CSKA Moscow) 	Anton Belov (SKA St. Petersburg) 	Sergei Shirokov (Avangard Omsk) 	Vladislav Kamenev (Metallurg Magnitogorsk)
October 	Ivan Kasutin (Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod)	Maxim Chudinov (SKA St. Petersburg)	Artemy Panarin (SKA St. Petersburg) 	Ivan Nalimov (Admiral Vladivostok)
November 	Mikko Koskinen (Sibir Novosibirsk) 	Georgi Misharin (CSKA Moscow) 	Igor Grigorenko (CSKA Moscow) 	Pavel Koledov (HC Sochi)
December 	Michael Garnett (Traktor Chelyabinsk) 	Nick Bailen (Dinamo Minsk) 	Dmitri Kugryshev (Sibir Novosibirsk)	Damir Musin (Ak Bars Kazan)
January 	Alexander Lazushin (Dynamo Moscow) 	Alexei Semenov (Vityaz Podolsk) 	Mikhail Varnakov (Ak Bars Kazan) 	Vyacheslav Leshchenko (Atlant Moscow Oblast)
February 	Anders Nilsson (Ak Bars Kazan) 	Deron Quint (Traktor Chelyabinsk) 	Charles Linglet (Dinamo Minsk) 	Maxim Mamin (CSKA Moscow)
March 	Anders Nilsson (Ak Bars Kazan) 	Denis Denisov (CSKA Moscow) 	Alexander Radulov (CSKA Moscow) 	Kirill Semyonov (Avangard Omsk)
April 	Mikko Koskinen (SKA St. Petersburg) 	Maxim Chudinov (SKA St. Petersburg)	Evgenii Dadonov (SKA St. Petersburg)	Not awarded
==Milestones==
*On September 13, 2014, the Metallurg Magnitogorsk forward Sergei Mozyakin recorded his 400th KHL regular season career point. He became the first player in league history to reach this milestone.
*On September 24, 2014, the Metallurg Magnitogorsk forward Danis Zaripov recorded his 300th KHL regular season career point. He became the third player in league history to reach this milestone.
*On October 5, 2014, Ak Bars Kazan coach Zinetula Bilyaletdinov coached his 800th career game in Russian championships.
*On October 6, 2014, Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod forward Wojtek Wolski set a new league record for the fastest hat-trick in the game against Sibir Novosibirsk scoring in 1 minute 46 seconds.
*On February 18, 2015, Jokerit forward Steve Moses scored his 36th goal against Atlant Moscow Oblast and broke the league record for the most goals scored during one season.
==References==
 
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