League adopts 3-on-3 overtime
The League has announced that from Thursday, the 15th of December, regular season matches in the Kontinental Hockey League, Youth Hockey League and Women’s Hockey League which are tied at the end of...
View ArticleAvto motors to comfortable win. December 15 round-up
Amur Khabarovsk 2 Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg 5 Avtomobilist gave its playoff hopes a boost with a comfortable victory in the only KHL game of the day. While most hockey fans in Russia were looking...
View ArticleVladivostok’s goal-fest. December 17 round-up
Admiral Vladivostok 7 Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 5 Two teams in the thick of the Eastern Conference playoff race served up a thrilling battle in Russia’s Far East, with Admiral securing a vital victory in...
View ArticlePlayers of the Week 16: Karhunen, Grigoryev, Gareyev and Tkachyov
To mark the end of the sixteenth week’s play of the ninth season of the Championship, the Kontinental Hockey League has named the best players of the week in four categories. Owing to the Channel One...
View ArticleCatching Kovy. December 17 round-up
Avangard leaves it late, Kanareikin warns his players Avangard Omsk 2 Jokerit Helsinki 1 (OT) It took a long time to separate the day’s biggest hitters as this clash in Omsk was deadlocked until deep...
View ArticleDynamo downs Spartak in Moscow derby. December 20 round-up
Second-placed CSKA made it five wins in a row despite conceding four power play goals at Lada, while the Moscow derby was dominated by Dynamo. Elsewhere, HC Sochi and Vityaz saw their playoff hopes...
View ArticleDynamo downs Spartak in Moscow derby. December 20 round-up
Second-placed CSKA made it five wins in a row despite conceding four power play goals at Lada, while the Moscow derby was dominated by Dynamo. Elsewhere, HC Sochi and Vityaz saw their playoff hopes...
View ArticleA Siberian goal-rush and a shock in Zagreb. December 21 round-up
Avangard Omsk fired nine goals past Dinamo Riga while Medvescak enjoyed a surprise win over Metallurg Magnitogorsk. Elsewhere Dustin Boyd got his first goals of the season for Barys and Andrei Razin...
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70 years of Russian and Soviet hockey
Today is a very special date in world sporting history – it is exactly 70 years since Moscow, Leningrad, Kaunas and Archangelsk hosted the very first matches in the USSR hockey championship. In the...
View ArticleCelebrating anniversaries in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod
The KHL went retro to mark the 70th anniversary of the inaugural games in the Soviet championship back in December 1946. Torpedo and Spartak staged historic themed evenings, while the day’s play...
View ArticleA century for SKA. December 23 round-up
The league leader reaches 100 points with an overtime win at Lada, the defending champion edges a narrow verdict over Slovan and Dinamo Riga hits six in the clash of the strugglers in Novokuznetsk....
View ArticleMenshikov, Klinkhammer and Brust banned for 1 game
Amid the range of misdemeanors committed during a feisty opening ten minutes of the Sibir versus Dinamo Minsk match in Novosibirsk on Wednesday, home defenseman Vitaly Menshikov and visiting forward...
View ArticlePanin banned for 4 games
Following a request from the Refereeing Department, the KHL Disciplinary Committee has investigated an incident from the 23rd minute of Thursday’s match in Nizhnekamsk between Neftekhimik and CSKA, in...
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Torpedo looks to the future. December 24 round-up
Nizhny Novgorod staged a world first, following last week’s retro-game with a futuristic vision of how the club might celebrate its centenary in 2046. Elsehwere every game ended in an away win, Vityaz...
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International Sledge Hockey Stars to Compete on 2017 All-Star Game Program
The League has revealed that the Week of Hockey Stars festival, to be held in Ufa in January of 2017, will feature an international sledge hockey tournament, the Continental Cup, to be contested by...
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Merry Christmas!
Dear friends, We at the Kontinental Hockey League would like to express seasonal greetings and wish glad tidings to all our fans, players, coaches, staff, colleagues and partners, and to all those...
View ArticleBans for Ellison, Kanareikin, Gotovets, Bochenski and Kuryanov
The KHL Disciplinary Committee was called upon to review a number of episodes from Friday’s matches in the Championship, and as a result, no fewer than four players and one head coach have received...
View ArticleSKA shuts out Neftekhimik, Dawes sets record. December 25 round-up
Nigel Dawes became the first player to score eight KHL hat-tricks as Barys downed Metallurg Magnitogorsk, while SKA froze out Neftekhimik and Avangard shrugged off a suspension for head coach Fyodor...
View ArticlePlayers of the Week 17: Scrivens, Nikulin, Dawes and Tkachyov
To mark the end of the seventeenth week’s play of the ninth season of the Championship, the Kontinental Hockey League has named the best players of the week in four categories.
View ArticleCSKA slips up, Spartak loses after recovering from 0-4
In Moscow, second-placed CSKA suffered its first defeat in seven games, losing in a shoot-out against Lokomotiv. City rival Spartak endured a similar fate in Slovakia, despite clawing back a four-goal...
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