2021–22 KHL season

The 2021–22 KHL season was the 14th season of the Kontinental Hockey League. There were 24 teams that competed in 56 regular season games, beginning on 1 September 2021 and was scheduled to finish on 1 March 2022. However, the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia resulted in more than 50 games being postponed prior to the break for the 2022 Winter Olympics, and in February, it was announced that no further regular season games would be played following the break. In the finals, CSKA beat Metallurg in seven games.
==Season changes==
For the 2021–22 season, the competition returned to 24 teams after Admiral Vladivostok returned from a season's hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia affecting their financial status.
There was an additional break during the season due to the 2022 Winter Olympics, held in February in Beijing, China.
==Teams==
The 24 teams were split into four divisions: the Bobrov Division and the Tarasov Division as part of the Western Conference, with the Kharlamov Division and the Chernyshev Division as part of the Eastern Conference.
Following Admiral Vladivostok's return to the league, Torpedo moved back to the Western Conference and joined the Bobrov Division, with Severstal moving into the Tarasov. Admiral was inserted back into the Chernyshev Division, with Kunlun Red Star moving into the Kharlamov Division.
Western Conference 	Western Conference 	Eastern Conference 	Eastern Conference
Bobrov Division 	Tarasov Division 	Kharlamov Division 	Chernyshev Division
Jokerit 	CSKA Moscow 	Ak Bars Kazan 	Admiral Vladivostok
SKA Saint Petersburg 	Dinamo Minsk 	Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg	Amur Khabarovsk
HC Sochi 	Dinamo Riga 	Kunlun Red Star 	Avangard Omsk
Spartak Moscow 	Dynamo Moscow 	Metallurg Magnitogorsk 	Barys Nur-Sultan
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 	Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 	Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Vityaz Podolsk 	Severstal Cherepovets	Traktor Chelyabinsk 	Sibir Novosibirsk
==Standings==
Each team was scheduled to play 56 games: playing every other team home-and-away (46 games), plus additional home-and-away games against five intra-conference teams (10 games). Points were awarded for each game, where two points were awarded for all victories, regardless of whether it was in regulation time, in overtime or after game-winning shots. One point was awarded for losing in overtime or game-winning shots, and zero points for losing in regulation time. In the 2021–22 season, the second seed in each conference would not be guaranteed to a divisional winner.
With the discontinuation of the regular season, it was proposed that teams were to be ranked by points percentage, with the top eight from each conference scheduled to qualify for the Gagarin Cup playoffs. This was subject to approval by the KHL Board of Directors and the Ice Hockey Federation of Russia. This was confirmed on 16 February.
=== Western Conference ===
Pos	Team 	Pld	W 	OTW	OTL	L 	GF 	GA 	GD 	PCT 	Qualification
1 	SKA Saint Petersburg (Y)	48 	25	6 	6 	11	146	98 	+48	.708	Advance to Gagarin Cup Playoffs
2 	Jokerit 	47 	22	7 	6 	12	143	113	+30	.681	Advance to Gagarin Cup Playoffs
3 	CSKA Moscow 	47 	18	11 	5 	13	120	107	+13	.670	Advance to Gagarin Cup Playoffs
4 	Dynamo Moscow 	48 	26	4 	4 	14	159	119	+40	.667	Advance to Gagarin Cup Playoffs
5 	Severstal Cherepovets 	49 	18	10 	7 	14	129	119	+10	.643	Advance to Gagarin Cup Playoffs
6 	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 	47 	19	4 	9 	15	113	103	+10	.585	Advance to Gagarin Cup Playoffs
7 	Spartak Moscow 	48 	19	7 	4 	18	122	118	+4 	.583	Advance to Gagarin Cup Playoffs
8 	Dinamo Minsk 	47 	18	5 	8 	16	138	144	−6 	.574	Advance to Gagarin Cup Playoffs
9 	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod 	47 	20	1 	7 	19	117	113	+4 	.521	
10 	Vityaz Podolsk 	48 	9 	6 	13 	20	121	149	−28	.448	
11 	HC Sochi 	48 	13	5 	5 	25	111	133	−22	.427	
12 	Dinamo Riga 	45 	9 	5 	9 	22	93 	143	−50	.411	
=== Eastern Conference ===
Pos	Team 	Pld	W 	OTW	OTL	L 	GF 	GA 	GD 	PCT 	Qualification
1 	Metallurg Magnitogorsk (Y)	48 	26	8 	3 	11	164	120	+44	.740	Advance to Gagarin Cup Playoffs
2 	Traktor Chelyabinsk 	49 	22	12 	3 	12	152	119	+33	.724	Advance to Gagarin Cup Playoffs
3 	Salavat Yulaev Ufa 	45 	24	4 	6 	11	131	96 	+35	.689	Advance to Gagarin Cup Playoffs
4 	Ak Bars Kazan 	48 	21	9 	6 	12	129	109	+20	.688	Advance to Gagarin Cup Playoffs
5 	Avangard Omsk 	47 	24	4 	2 	17	137	104	+33	.617	Advance to Gagarin Cup Playoffs
6 	Sibir Novosibirsk 	50 	18	8 	5 	19	109	108	+1 	.570	Advance to Gagarin Cup Playoffs
7 	Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 	49 	16	6 	8 	19	121	140	−19	.531	Advance to Gagarin Cup Playoffs
8 	Barys Nur-Sultan 	47 	14	8 	4 	21	127	138	−11	.511	Advance to Gagarin Cup Playoffs
9 	Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg	45 	15	3 	6 	21	127	129	−2 	.467	
10 	Amur Khabarovsk 	50 	12	7 	8 	23	97 	125	−28	.460	
11 	Admiral Vladivostok 	49 	11	4 	5 	29	88 	150	−62	.357	
12 	Kunlun Red Star 	48 	7 	2 	7 	32	101	198	−97	.260	
==Gagarin Cup playoffs==
Following the curtailment of the regular season, the playoffs were brought forward to start from 1 March.
On 25 February 2022, Jokerit announced their withdrawal from the league for the remainder of the season, including the playoffs, due to the Russian invasion of Ukrain]. Their first round opponents Spartak Moscow were given four forfeit victories and progressed to the second round of the playoffs. Dinamo Riga subsequently also withdrew from the league for the same reason.
==References==
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