2016–17 KHL season

The 2016–17 KHL season was the ninth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The season started on 22 August 2016 and ended on 16 April 2017. SKA Saint Petersburg defeated Metallurg Magnitogorsk four games to one to win their second Gagarin Cup Championship in three seasons.
The KHL had the third highest average attendance in Europe, averaging 6,121 spectators, and the highest total attendance in Europe with 5.32 million spectators in the regular season.
==Team changes==
The Chinese club HC Kunlun Red Star from Beijing, China joined the league, to become its 29th team.
==Divisions and regular season format==
In this season, like in 2015–16 season, each team will play every other team once at home and once on the road, giving a total of 56 games (28 at home, 28 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 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 	HC Kunlun Red Star
Slovan Bratislava 	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod	Traktor Chelyabinsk 	Metallurg Novokuznetsk
Spartak Moscow 	Vityaz Podolsk 	Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk 	Salavat Yulaev Ufa
 	 	 	Sibir Novosibirsk
==League standings==
===Western Conference===
Team 	GP	W 	OW	OL	L 	GF 	GA 	GD 	Pts
CSKA Moscow 	60	41	3 	8 	8 	183	110	+73 	137
SKA Saint Petersburg 	60	39	7 	6 	8 	249	114	+135	137
Dynamo Moscow 	60	29	10	5 	16	164	111	+53 	112
Lokomotiv Yaroslav 	60	32	4 	6 	18	163	130	+33 	110
Dinamo Minsk 	60	27	10	4 	19	171	150	+21 	105
Torpedo Nizhni Novgorod	60	27	8 	7 	18	145	124	+21 	104
Vityaz Podolsk 	60	26	7 	5 	22	162	158	+4 	97
Jokerit 	60	23	6 	12	19	149	165	-16 	93
HC Sochi 	60	24	7 	2 	27	139	145	-6 	88
Slovan Bratislava 	60	22	7 	5 	26	144	166	-22 	85
Severstal Cherepovets 	60	18	5 	10	27	133	163	-30 	74
Medveščak Zagreb 	60	19	4 	4 	33	138	186	-48 	69
Spartak Moscow 	60	18	3 	6 	33	125	168	-43 	66
Dinamo Riga 	60	11	10	5 	34	116	158	-42 	58
===Eastern Conference===
Team 	GP	W 	OW	OL	L 	GF 	GA 	GD 	Pts
Metallurg Magnitogorsk 	60	36	5 	6 	13	197	135	+62	124
Avangard Omsk 	60	30	8 	3 	19	156	127	+29	109
Ak Bars Kazan 	60	29	9 	4 	18	155	127	+29	109
Traktor Chelyabinsk 	60	27	3 	10	20	130	120	+10	97
Barys Astana 	60	25	6 	3 	26	151	167	-16	90
Salavat Yulaev Ufa 	60	21	6 	13	20	169	174	+5 	88
Admiral Vladivostok 	60	24	3 	8 	25	147	153	-6 	86
HC Kunlun Red Star 	60	24	4 	3 	29	139	144	-5 	83
Sibir Novosibirsk 	60	20	8 	7 	25	133	138	-5 	83
Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 	60	20	8 	4 	28	143	155	-12	80
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg	60	19	6 	10	25	139	165	-26	79
Amur Khabarovsk 	60	20	5 	6 	29	110	130	-20	76
Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk 	60	18	4 	4 	34	112	148	-36	66
Lada Togliatti 	60	16	5 	7 	32	146	180	-34	65
Metallurg Novokuznetsk 	60	8 	6 	4 	42	97 	194	-97	40
==Gagarin Cup Playoffs==
The playoffs started on 21 February 2017, with the top eight teams from each of the conferences and end with the last game of the Gagarin Cup final on 16 April 2017.
==Final standings==
Rank	Team
1 	SKA Saint Petersburg
2 	Metallurg Magnitogorsk
3 	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
4 	Ak Bars Kazan
5 	CSKA Moscow
6 	Dynamo Moscow
7 	Avangard Omsk
8 	Barys Astana
9 	Dinamo Minsk
10 	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
11 	Traktor Chelyabinsk
12 	Vityaz
13 	Jokerit
14 	Salavat Yulaev Ufa
15 	Admiral Vladivostok
16 	HC Kunlun Red Star
17 	Sochi
18 	Slovan Bratislava
19 	Sibir Novosibirsk
20 	Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk
21 	Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
22 	Amur Khabarovsk
23 	Severstal Cherepovets
24 	Medveščak Zagreb
25 	Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk
26 	Spartak Moscow
27 	Lada Togliatti
28 	Dinamo Riga
29 	Metallurg Novokuznetsk
==Player statistics==
===Scoring leaders===
 
As of 18 February 2017
Player 	Team 	GP	G 	A 	Pts	+/–	PIM
Sergei Mozyakin 	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	60	48	37	85 	+10	4
Ilya Kovalchuk 	SKA Saint Petersburg 	60	32	46	78 	+28	47
Vadim Shipachyov	SKA Saint Petersburg 	50	26	50	76 	+33	22
Nikita Gusev 	SKA Saint Petersburg 	57	24	47	71 	+33	8
Evgenii Dadonov 	SKA Saint Petersburg 	53	30	36	66 	+33	39
Source: KHL
===Leading goaltenders===
As of 18 February 2017
Player 	Team 	GP	Min 	W 	L	SOP	GA	SO	SV% 	GAA
Alexander Yeryomenko	Dynamo Moscow 	37	2092:48	24	4	5 	45	9 	.950	1.29
Pavel Francouz 	Traktor Chelyabinsk 	30	1718:50	14	9	3 	41	5 	.953	1.43
Ilya Sorokin 	CSKA Moscow 	39	2276:14	25	7	6 	61	5 	.929	1.61
Igor Shestyorkin 	SKA Saint Petersburg	39	2190:49	27	4	6 	60	8 	.937	1.64
Viktor Fasth 	CSKA Moscow 	21	1169:05	15	2	2 	33	4 	.929	1.69
Source: KHL
==Awards==
===Players of the Month===
Best KHL players of each month.
Month 	Goaltender 	Defense 	Forward 	Rookie
September	Ilya Proskuryakov (Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod)	Mat Robinson (Dynamo Moscow) 	Sergei Mozyakin (Metallurg Magnitogorsk)	Vladimir Tkachev (Admiral Vladivostok)
October 	Igor Shestyorkin (SKA Saint Petersburg) 	Chris Lee (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) 	Ilya Kovalchuk (SKA Saint Petersburg) 	Artyom Zagidulin (Kunlun Red Star)
November 	Vasily Demchenko (Traktor Chelyabinsk) 	Zakhar Arzamastsev (Salavat Yulaev Ufa) 	Sergei Mozyakin (Metallurg Magnitogorsk)	Dmitry Shulenin (Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod)
December 	Alexander Yeryomenko (Dynamo Moscow) 	Yegor Martynov (Avangard Omsk) 	Richard Gynge (Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk) 	Vladimir Tkachev (Admiral Vladivostok)
January 	Alexander Yeryomenko (Dynamo Moscow) 	Juuso Hietanen (Dynamo Moscow) 	Sergei Mozyakin (Metallurg Magnitogorsk)	Artyom Ilenko (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl)
February 	Alexander Yeryomenko (Dynamo Moscow) 	Jakub Nakládal (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl) 	Sergei Mozyakin (Metallurg Magnitogorsk)	Denis Alexeyev (Admiral Vladivostok)
March 	Vasily Koshechkin (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) 	Vladislav Gavrikov (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl)	Danis Zaripov (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) 	Grigori Dronov (Metallurg Magnitogorsk)
April 	 	 	 	
==References==
==External links==
* Season schedule 2016–17
Category:Kontinental Hockey League seasons
Category:2017 in hockey