2014–15 KHL season

The 2014–15 KHL season is the seventh season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The season started on 3 September with the Opening Cup between defending champions Metallurg Magnitogorsk and Dynamo Moscow, replacing Lev Praha, last year's runner up not participating this season.
==Team changes==
Prior to the season, the KHL added three more teams: Jokerit from Helsinki, Lada Togliatti (an earlier member of the KHL that spent the last four seasons in the VHL) and HC Sochi, an expansion team from Sochi.
HC Donbass did not play in the league this season, because of the political instability in Ukraine which culminated in a devastating fire at their home arena. Donbass intends to rejoin KHL for the 2015–16 season. HC Lev Praha didn't participate in KHL this season either, because of financial problems. In addition, Spartak Moscow did not participate in the league this season, after missing the deadline for shoring up its finances.
==Divisions and regular season format==
New for this season, is that the teams primarily play games against teams in their own division, and secondarily against teams in their own conference, and finally against teams in the other conference. According to the new format (subject to final approval by the League management) each team will play a total of 60 games during the regular season as follows:
* 24 games against the other teams in their division (two at home and two on the road against each opponent), 
* 14 games (one at home and one on the road against each opponent), against the teams in the other division in their conference, 
* 14 more against teams from the other conference (comprising seven home games versus teams from one division and seven road games against teams from the other),
* 8 games where four will be against teams in their own conference (two at home, two on the road) and four against opposition from the other conference (again, two at home and two on the road). When determining the opponents and venues for these additional 8 games, the League consider practical things, including the geographical locations and the availability of the arenas.
How the teams are divided into divisions and conferences are shown in the table below.
Western Conference	Eastern Conference
Bobrov Division 	Tarasov Division 	Kharlamov Division 	Chernyshev Division
Jokerit 	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod	Ak Bars Kazan 	Admiral Vladivostok
Dinamo Minsk 	CSKA Moscow 	Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg	Amur Khabarovsk
Dinamo Riga 	Dynamo Moscow 	Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk 	Avangard Omsk
Atlant Moscow Oblast	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 	Metallurg Magnitogorsk 	Barys Astana
Medveščak Zagreb 	Severstal Cherepovets 	Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 	Metallurg Novokuznetsk
SKA Saint Petersburg	HC Sochi 	Lada Togliatti 	Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Slovan Bratislava 	Vityaz Podolsk 	Traktor Chelyabinsk 	Sibir Novosibirsk
==Regular season==
The regular season began on 3 September 2014 with the Opening Cup between Metallurg Magnitogorsk and Dynamo Moscow. Metallurg won the game 6–1.
Numbers in brackets are conference placements.
==== Eastern Conference ====
Chernyshev Division 	GP	W 	OTW	SOW	SOL	OTL	L 	Goals 	Pts
HK Sibir Novosibirsk (2) 	60	34	2 	1 	1 	2 	20	176:125	111
HK Avangard Omsk (4) 	60	30	2 	3 	2 	6 	17	172:139	108
Barys Astana (5) 	60	24	2 	4 	6 	3 	21	170:165	93
Salavat Yulaev Ufa (6) 	60	25	2 	1 	4 	1 	27	158:173	86
Admiral Vladivostok (9) 	60	20	4 	4 	3 	1 	28	162:172	80
Metallurg Novokuznetsk (13)	60	10	3 	7 	1 	2 	37	115:190	53
Amur Khabarovsk (14) 	60	11	0 	3 	4 	2 	40	117:207	45
Kharlamov Division 	GP	W 	OTW	SOW	SOL	OTL	L 	Goals 	Pts
Ak Bars Kazan (1) 	60	34	2 	4 	6 	0 	14	169:115	120
Metallurg Magnitogorsk (3) 	60	32	4 	4 	2 	3 	15	174:129	117
Traktor Chelyabinsk (7) 	60	21	2 	6 	3 	4 	24	144:154	86
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg (8) 	60	21	2 	3 	6 	2 	26	134:147	81
HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk (10)	60	17	2 	6 	4 	2 	29	165:199	73
HC Lada Togliatti (11) 	60	16	3 	5 	2 	2 	32	130:158	68
HC Ugra (12) 	60	14	5 	2 	5 	3 	31	134:176	64
==== Western Conference ====
Tarasov Division 	GP	W 	OTW	SOW	SOL	OTL	L 	Goals 	Pts
HC CSKA Moscow (1) 	60	39	4 	6 	1 	1 	9 	207:98 	139
HC Dynamo Moscow(3) 	60	35	5 	1 	6 	0 	13	172:120	123
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl (6) 	60	23	4 	4 	7 	2 	19	155:143	97
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod (7)	60	22	1 	7 	5 	4 	22	153:144	90
HC Sochi (8) 	60	23	3 	2 	6 	3 	23	164:170	88
Severstal Cherepovets (10) 	60	19	1 	7 	6 	6 	21	157:168	85
HC Vityaz (11) 	60	20	2 	4 	1 	5 	28	152:186	78
Bobrov Division 	GP	W 	OTW	SOW	SOL	OTL	L 	Goals 	Pts
SKA Saint Petersburg (2) 	60	36	2 	3 	3 	2 	14	210:136	123
Jokerit Helsinki (4) 	60	35	3 	2 	2 	2 	16	171:136	119
HC Dinamo Minsk (5) 	60	27	3 	4 	4 	1 	21	171:159	100
Atlant Moscow Oblast (9) 	60	23	1 	3 	5 	3 	25	158:161	85
Dinamo Riga (12) 	60	22	0 	3 	3 	2 	30	126:160	77
KHL Medveščak Zagreb (13)	60	17	3 	3 	3 	2 	32	147:191	68
HC Slovan Bratislava (14)	60	15	0 	5 	6 	2 	32	136:188	63
==Russian Ice Hockey Championship==
At the end of the regular season of the KHL Championship the following teams became medalists of the Russian Ice Hockey Championship:KHL Sports Regulations. Seasons 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017
Rank 	Team
rowspan="1" align="center"	CSKA Moscow
rowspan="1" align="center"	SKA Saint Petersburg
rowspan="1" align="center"	Dynamo Moscow
==Playoffs==
== Final standings ==
Bold indicates teams qualified for playoffs.
Rank	Team
1 	SKA Saint Petersburg
2 	Ak Bars Kazan
3 	CSKA Moscow
4 	Sibir Novosibirsk
5 	Dynamo Moscow
6 	Jokerit
7 	Metallurg Magnitogorsk
8 	Avangard Omsk
9 	Dinamo Minsk
10 	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
11 	Barys Astana
12 	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
13 	HC Sochi
14 	Salavat Yulaev Ufa
15 	Traktor Chelyabinsk
16 	Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
17 	Atlant Moscow Oblast
18 	Severstal Cherepovets
19 	Admiral Vladivostok
20 	Vityaz Podolsk
21 	Dinamo Riga
22 	Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk
23 	Medveščak Zagreb
24 	Lada Togliatti
25 	Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk
26 	Slovan Bratislava
27 	Metallurg Novokuznetsk
28 	Amur Khabarovsk
==References==
Category:2014 in ice hockey
Category:2015 in ice hockey