2013–14 KHL season

The 2013–14 KHL season was the sixth season of the Kontinental Hockey League.
The league's 28 teams played a 54-game balanced schedule. The regular season began on 4 September with the Lokomotiv Cup between last year's finalists Dynamo Moscow and Traktor Chelyabinsk. The all-star game took place on 11 January in Bratislava, Slovakia and was followed by a 27-day break for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi from 30 January to 25 February. The last day of the regular season was 4 March.http://en.khl.ru/documents/KHL_calendar_2013-2014_regular_en.pdf
Sixteen teams, eight from each conference, advanced to the Gagarin Cup playoffs, which began on 7 March. The winner of each conference, Metallurg Magnitogorsk from the East and Lev Prague from the West, met in the Gagarin Cup Final. The seventh and last game was played on 30 April, with Metallurg winning 7-4. All four playoff rounds were best-of-seven series.http://en.khl.ru/documents/KHL_calendar_2013-2014_playoff_en.pdf
==Changes==
===Team changes===
In late April 2013 it was announced that a newly created team from Vladivostok would be admitted to league and become the league's second far-eastern team. The team is called Admiral Vladivostok and its name and emblem were chosen by the public. Its initial roster was filled in an expansion draft on 17 June.
A few days after Vladivostok was admitted to the league it was also confirmed that KHL Medveščak from Zagreb, Croatia would join the league. Medveščak previously played in Austrian-based EBEL league. This made Croatia the eighth country with a KHL team.
In June 2013 Vityaz Chekhov officially announced its relocation to nearby Podolsk, Moscow Oblast where it can play in a bigger arena.
==Regular season==
The regular season began on 4 September 2013 with the Lokomotiv Cup between the finalists of the previous season, Dynamo Moscow and Traktor Chelyabinsk and ended on 4 March 2014 after every team has played 54 matches.
===League standings===
Points are awarded as follows:
*3 Points for a win in regulation ("W")
*2 Points for a win in overtime ("OTW") or a penalty shootout ("SOW")
*1 Point for a loss in overtime ("OTL") or a penalty shootout ("SOL")
*0 Points for a loss in regulation ("L")
The conference standings determine the seedings for the play-offs. The first two places in each conference are reserved for the division winners.
 	Western Conference 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
1 	C – Dynamo Moscow 	TAR	54	34	2	2	5	0	11	171	113	115
2 	Y – SKA Saint Petersburg	BOB	54	30	1	4	4	1	14	175	115	105
3 	HC Lev Praha 	BOB	54	23	3	9	2	4	13	149	107	99
4 	HC Donbass 	TAR	54	27	3	4	2	0	18	135	99 	97
5 	Dinamo Riga 	BOB	54	22	5	6	4	1	16	141	122	93
6 	Medveščak Zagreb 	BOB	54	24	1	3	8	4	14	138	126	92
7 	CSKA Moscow 	BOB	54	25	2	5	1	1	20	130	118	91
8 	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 	TAR	54	23	2	3	4	1	21	109	103	84
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
9 	Atlant Moscow Oblast 	TAR	54	19	1	7	3	2	22	123	120	78
10	Severstal Cherepovets 	TAR	54	20	0	5	5	2	22	128	135	77
11	Slovan Bratislava 	BOB	54	15	3	6	3	1	26	120	160	67
13	Spartak Moscow 	TAR	54	12	4	4	4	2	28	105	147	58
12	Vityaz Podolsk 	TAR	54	12	1	5	9	1	26	110	147	58
14	Dinamo Minsk 	BOB	54	13	1	3	4	2	31	102	161	53
Y – Clinched Division; C – Clinched Continental Cup;
BOB – Bobrov Division, TAR – Tarasov Division
 	Eastern Conference 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
1 	Z – Metallurg Magnitogorsk	KHA	54	30	3	2	6 	2	11	166	113	108
2 	Y – Barys Astana 	CHE	54	26	2	4	2 	2	18	182	157	94
3 	Ak Bars Kazan 	KHA	54	26	4	4	5 	1	14	139	108	100
4 	Salavat Yulaev Ufa 	CHE	54	25	3	3	4 	3	16	155	140	94
4 	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod 	KHA	54	25	2	5	3 	2	17	153	121	94
6 	Sibir Novosibirsk 	CHE	54	22	2	5	6 	1	18	125	117	87
7 	Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg	KHA	54	22	0	7	5 	1	19	134	125	86
8 	Admiral Vladivostok 	CHE	54	21	1	4	4 	1	23	135	129	78
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
9 	Traktor Chelyabinsk 	KHA	54	18	1	6	5 	2	22	126	148	75
10	Avangard Omsk 	CHE	54	17	1	5	4 	2	25	136	162	69
11	Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk 	KHA	54	16	1	3	2 	6	26	128	166	64
12	Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 	KHA	54	15	2	2	3 	1	31	127	152	57
13	Metallurg Novokuznetsk 	CHE	54	12	1	1	4 	6	30	115	170	50
14	Amur Khabarovsk 	CHE	54	8 	1	4	10	1	30	106	182	45
Y – Clinched Division; Z – Clinched ConferenceKHA – Kharlamov Division, CHE – Chernyshev Division
==Playoffs==
The playoffs started on 7 March 2014, with the top eight teams from each of the conferences, and ended on 30 April with the last game of the Gagarin Cup final.
During the first three rounds home ice was determined by seeding number within the Conference, not position on the bracket. In the Finals the team with better seeding number had home ice advantage. If the seeding numbers were equal, the regular season record was taken into account.KHL Sports Regulations 2011-2014, revised
==Nadezhda Cup==
The 12 teams that do not advance to Gagarin Cup Playoffs participate in Nadezhda Cup. The teams ranked 9th and 10th in their conferences are seeded and start their games from Quarterfinals, while the other teams start their games from the First Round. The First Round consists of two games. In case there is a 1-1 tie in the end of the First Round, 5-minute overtime and a penalty shootout, if necessary, follow after Game 2. The other rounds consist of up to four games. If there is a 2-2 tie in the end of such a round, the series is decided in a 20-minute overtime with a shootout if necessary.http://en.khl.ru/news/2014/2/26/26137.html
* Note: Spartak Moscow was excluded from Nadezhda Cup 2014 tournament due to financial issues.Spartak won't play in Nadezhda Cup
== Final standings ==
Rank	Team
1 	Metallurg Magnitogorsk
2 	Lev Praha
3 	Salavat Yulaev Ufa
4 	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
5 	SKA Saint Petersburg
6 	HC Donbass
7 	Barys Astana
8 	Sibir Novosibirsk
9 	Dynamo Moscow
10 	Ak Bars Kazan
11 	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
12 	Dinamo Riga
13 	Medveščak Zagreb
14 	CSKA Moscow
15 	Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
16 	Admiral Vladivostok
17 	Atlant Moscow Oblast
18 	Severstal Cherepovets
19 	Traktor Chelyabinsk
20 	Avangard Omsk
21 	Slovan Bratislava
22 	Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk
23 	Spartak Moscow
24 	Vityaz Chekhov
25 	Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk
26 	Dinamo Minsk
27 	Metallurg Novokuznetsk
28 	Amur Khabarovsk
==References==
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