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.
KHL is on the 3rd place by attendance in Europe, averaging 6,121 spectators.
==Team changes==
The Chinese club Kunlun Red Star 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 	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===
Tarasov Division 	GP	W 	OTW	SOW	SOL	OTL	L 	Goals 	Pts
HK CSKA Moscow (1) 	60	41	2 	1 	7 	1 	8 	183:110	137
HK Dynamo Moscow (3) 	60	29	5 	5 	5 	0 	16	164:111	112
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl (4) 	60	32	1 	3 	3 	3 	18	163:130	110
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod (6)	60	27	3 	5 	3 	4 	18	145:124	104
HC Vityaz (7) 	60	26	3 	4 	5 	0 	22	162:158	97
HC Sochi (9) 	60	24	2 	5 	1 	1 	27	139:145	88
Severstal Cherepovets (11) 	60	18	3 	2 	4 	6 	27	133:163	74
Bobrov Division 	GP	W 	OTW	SOW	SOL	OTL	L 	Goals 	Pts
SKA Saint Petersburg (2) 	60	39	2 	5 	4 	2 	8 	249:114	137
HC Dinamo Minsk (5) 	60	27	3 	7 	2 	2 	19	171:150	105
Jokerit Helsinki (8) 	60	23	3 	3 	6 	6 	19	149:165	93
HC Slovan Bratislava (10)	60	22	4 	3 	3 	2 	26	144:166	85
KHL Medveščak Zagreb (12)	60	19	2 	2 	2 	2 	32	138:186	69
HK Spartak Moscow (13) 	60	18	1 	2 	3 	3 	33	125:168	66
Dinamo Riga (14) 	60	11	4 	6 	4 	1 	34	116:158	58
===Eastern Conference===
Chernyshev Division 	GP	W 	OTW	SOW	SOL	OTL	L 	Goals 	Pts
Avangard Omsk (2) 	60	30	3 	5 	1 	2 	19	156:127	109
Barys Astana (5) 	60	25	6 	0 	1 	2 	26	151:167	90
Salavat Yulaev Ufa (6) 	60	21	2 	4 	10 	3 	20	169:174	88
Admiral Vladivostok (7) 	60	24	2 	1 	7 	1 	25	147:153	86
HC Kunlun Red Star (8) 	60	24	2 	2 	3 	0 	29	139:144	83
HC Sibir Novosibirsk (9) 	60	20	2 	6 	2 	5 	25	133:138	83
Amur Khabarovsk (12) 	60	20	1 	4 	4 	2 	29	110:129	76
Metallurg Novokuznetsk (15)	60	8 	1 	5 	2 	2 	42	97:194 	40
Kharlamov Division 	GP	W 	OTW	SOW	SOL	OTL	L 	Goals 	Pts
Metallurg Magnitogorsk (1) 	60	36	1 	4 	4 	2 	13	197:135	124
Ak Bars Kazan (3) 	60	29	3 	6 	2 	2 	18	155:127	109
Traktor Chelyabinsk (4) 	60	27	2 	1 	7 	3 	19	130:120	97
HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk (10)	60	20	1 	7 	2 	2 	28	143:155	80
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg (11)	60	19	1 	5 	5 	5 	25	139:165	79
HC Ugra (13) 	60	18	2 	2 	3 	1 	34	112:148	66
HC Lada Togliatti (14) 	60	16	1 	4 	4 	3 	32	146:180	65
==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 	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
==References==
==External links==
* Season schedule 2016–17
Category:2016 in ice hockey
Category:2017 in ice hockey