2015–16 KHL season

The 2015–16 KHL season was the eighth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The season started on 24 August 2015 with the Opening Cup between defending champions SKA Saint Petersburg and last year's Continental Cup winners CSKA Moscow, replacing Ak Bars Kazan, the previous season's Gagarin Cup finalists.
==Team changes==
Spartak Moscow returned to the league prior to this season. (in Russian), www.Iltalehti.fi, (in Finnish) It was also announced by KHL President Dmitry Chernyshenko that Atlant Moscow Oblast would not participate in the league this season due to financial problems., www.championat.com, (in Russian)
==Divisions and regular season format==
In this season, each team played every other team once at home and once on the road, giving a total of 54 games (27 at home, 27 on the road), plus 6 additional games (3 at home, 3 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 	Metallurg Novokuznetsk
Slovan Bratislava 	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod	Traktor Chelyabinsk 	Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Spartak Moscow 	Vityaz Podolsk 	Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk 	Sibir Novosibirsk
== League standings ==
Numbers in brackets denote the placement of team within conference.
=== Western Conference ===
Chernyshev Division 	GP	W 	OTW	SOW	SOL	OTL	L 	Goals 	Pts
Avangard Omsk (1) 	60	27	1 	5 	7 	6 	14	156:120	106
HK Sibir Novosibirsk (3) 	60	24	4 	8 	6 	3 	15	155:133	105
Salavat Yulaev Ufa (4) 	60	29	3 	2 	1 	3 	22	179:156	101
Admiral Vladivostok (6) 	60	25	2 	6 	3 	1 	23	157:163	95
Barys Astana (9) 	60	21	4 	4 	4 	2 	25	167:184	85
Amur Khabarovsk (12) 	60	17	3 	3 	6 	0 	31	112:143	69
Metallurg Novokuznetsk (14)	60	13	1 	0 	10 	4 	32	128:191	55
Kharlamov Division 	GP	W 	OTW	SOW	SOL	OTL	L 	Goals 	Pts
Metallurg Magnitogorsk (2) 	60	25	3 	10 	2 	0 	20	180:138	103
Ak Bars Kazan (5) 	60	25	1 	5 	8 	1 	20	143:127	96
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg (7)	60	21	4 	5 	7 	4 	19	145:158	92
HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk (8)	60	20	4 	3 	8 	4 	21	130:135	86
Traktor Chelyabinsk (10) 	60	17	3 	9 	4 	4 	23	132:151	83
HC Ugra (11) 	60	19	3 	3 	2 	1 	32	120:178	72
HC Lada Togliatti (13) 	60	17	1 	4 	5 	3 	30	120:153	69
==== Western Conference ====
Tarasov Division 	GP	W 	OTW	SOW	SOL	OTL	L 	Goals 	Pts
HC CSKA Moscow (1) 	60	38	2 	3 	2 	1 	14	163:87 	127
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl (3) 	60	37	2 	4 	2 	0 	15	155:94 	111
HC Sochi (4) 	60	30	0 	4 	5 	5 	16	175:149	108
HC Dynamo Moscow (5) 	60	27	3 	5 	6 	2 	17	167:126	105
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod (7)	60	23	4 	6 	7 	4 	16	163:137	100
HC Vityaz (13) 	60	17	4 	4 	3 	0 	32	129:166	70
Severstal Cherepovets (14) 	60	12	4 	4 	1 	5 	34	124:167	58
Bobrov Division 	GP	W 	OTW	SOW	SOL	OTL	L 	Goals 	Pts
Jokerit Helsinki (2) 	60	31	1 	4 	4 	1 	19	167:140	108
SKA Saint Petersburg (6) 	60	27	5 	1 	2 	5 	20	176:149	100
HC Slovan Bratislava (8) 	60	21	3 	8 	1 	3 	24	154:148	89
HC Dinamo Minsk (9) 	60	20	2 	5 	4 	5 	24	147:168	83
KHL Medveščak Zagreb (10)	60	19	4 	2 	4 	5 	26	144:172	78
HC Spartak Moscow (11) 	60	20	3 	2 	5 	2 	28	139:172	77
Dinamo Riga (12) 	60	17	3 	5 	4 	4 	27	129:152	75
==Gagarin Cup Playoffs==
The playoffs started on February 21, 2016, with the top eight teams from each of the conferences and ended with the last game of the Gagarin Cup final on April 19, 2016.
== Final standings ==
Rank	Team
1 	Metallurg Magnitogorsk
2 	CSKA Moscow
3 	Salavat Yulaev Ufa
4 	SKA Saint Petersburg
5 	Avangard Omsk
6 	Dynamo Moscow
7 	Sibir Novosibirsk
8 	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
9 	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
10 	Jokerit
11 	HC Sochi
12 	Ak Bars Kazan
13 	Admiral Vladivostok
14 	Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
15 	Slovan Bratislava
16 	Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk
17 	Barys Astana
18 	Dinamo Minsk
19 	Traktor Chelyabinsk
20 	Medveščak Zagreb
21 	Spartak Moscow
22 	Dinamo Riga
23 	Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk
24 	Vityaz Podolsk
25 	Amur Khabarovsk
26 	Lada Togliatti
27 	Severstal Cherepovets
28 	Metallurg Novokuznetsk
==References==
==External links==
*Season schedule 2015-16
*Season regulations 2015-16
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Category:2016 in ice hockey