2013–14 KHL season
The 2013–14 KHL season is the sixth season of the Kontinental Hockey League.
The league's 28 teams are playing 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 is 4 March.[1]
Sixteen teams, eight from each conference, will advance to the
Gagarin Cup playoffs, which begin on 7 March. The winner of each
conference will meet in the Gagarin Cup Final, with the last possible
date being 30 April. All four playoff rounds will be best-of-seven
series.[2]
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.[3] The team is called Admiral Vladivostok and its name and emblem were chosen by the public.[4] Its initial roster was filled in an expansion draft on 17 June.[5]
A few days after Vladivostok was admitted to the league it was also confirmed that KHL Medveščak from Zagreb, Croatia would join the league.[6] 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.[7]
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
Source: KHL.ru[8]
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.
Y – Clinched Division; C – Clinched Continental Cup;
BOB – Bobrov Division, TAR – Tarasov Division
Y – Clinched Division;
Z – Clinched Conference
KHA – Kharlamov Division,
CHE – Chernyshev Division
Player statistics
Scoring leaders
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/– = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalty minutes
- As of 3 Mar 2014
Leading goaltenders
GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; SOP = Shootouts played; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average
- As of 3 Mar 2014
Playoffs
The playoffs will start on 7 March 2014 with the top eight teams from
both conferences and end in April with the last game of the Gagarin Cup final.
During the first three rounds home ice is determined by seeding
number within the Conference, not position on the bracket. In the Finals
the team with better seeding number has home ice advantage. If the
seeding numbers are equal, the regular season record is taken into
account.[11]
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Conference Finals |
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Gagarin Cup Finals |
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Metallurg Magnitogorsk |
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Metallurg Magnitogorsk |
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Admiral Vladivostok |
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Sibir Novosibirsk |
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Barys Astana |
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Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg |
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Metallurg Magnitogorsk |
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Salavat Yulaev Ufa |
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Ak Bars Kazan |
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Sibir Novosibirsk |
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Salavat Yulaev Ufa |
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Barys Astana |
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Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod |
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Salavat Yulaev Ufa |
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Dynamo Moscow |
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SKA St. Petersburg |
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Lokomotiv Yaroslavl |
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Lokomotiv Yaroslavl |
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SKA St. Petersburg |
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CSKA Moscow |
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Lev Prague |
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Lokomotiv Yaroslavl |
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Lev Prague |
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Medveščak Zagreb |
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Donbass Donetsk |
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Lev Prague |
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Dinamo Riga |
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Donbass Donetsk |
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- During the first three rounds home ice is determined by seeding
number, not position on the bracket. In the Finals the team with the
better regular season record has home ice.
Nadezhda Cup
The 12 teams that do not advance to Gagarin Cup Playoffs participate in Nadezhda Cup.
The teams ranked 9-th and 10-th 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.[12]
* Note: Spartak Moscow was excluded from Nadezhda Cup 2014 tournament due to financial issues.[13]
Final standings
Awards
Players of the Month
Best KHL players of each month.
Canada
Russia
United States
Czech Republic
Sweden
Finland
Belarus
Switzerland
Slovakia
Germany
Norway
France
Latvia
Denmark
Austria
Slovenia
