All-Star quartet meets the mayor
Today, Kontinental Hockey League President Alexander Medvedev and KHL Commerce and Communications Vice-President Ilya Kochevrin joined All-Star Game team captains Ilya Kovalchuk and Sergei Mozyakin at...
View ArticleWest proves best in All-Star showdown
The traditional jamboree that is the KHL’s All-Star game delighted fans in Bratislava with another high-scoring, entertaining clash between East and West.As the contest returned to the West after...
View ArticleLeonov leaves Vityaz
Yury Leonov has been relieved of his duties as head coach of Vityaz. Leonov had been in charge of the Moscow Region team since the spring of 2012 in a spell spanning 95 matches, with a record of 34...
View ArticleKHL and Interpol continue partnership
One of the many official events taking place as part of the All-Star Game weekend was the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Kontinental Hockey League and Interpol. The agreement is...
View ArticlePlayers of the Week 17: Brust, Nemec, Parshin & Kadeikin
To mark the end of the seventeenth week’s play of the sixth season of the KHL Championship, the League has rewarded the best players of the week in four categories: – Best goaltender for the second...
View ArticleSKA honors wartime heroes
To mark the 70th anniversary of the lifting of the siege of Leningrad, SKA Saint Petersburg will play all their KHL Championship games in January in retro-style, Leningrad uniforms. The commemorative...
View ArticleSKA bounces back in day’s top clash. January 13 round-up
It’s not often that SKA and Ak Bars go into a game with a whiff of crisis about them, but as the two prepared to meet in Monday’s highlight encounter both sides had cause for concern.SKA, the hosts,...
View ArticleMezei banned for 4 games
In the 51st minute of Monday’s game in Yaroslavl between Lokomotiv and Vityaz, Moscow Region defenseman Branislav Mezei was sent off for the remainder of the game after deliberately using his elbow to...
View ArticleBarys overhauls Magnitka. January 14 round-up
Metallurg Magnitogorsk’s stay at the top of the Eastern Conference proved to be brief – a shoot-out defeat at home to Salavat Yulaev, combined with Barys beating Spartak saw the Kazakh team seize top...
View ArticleYaroslav Alshevsky banned for 2 games
Two incidents in Tuesday’s Neftekhimik vs. Traktor game in Nizhnekamsk attracted the scrutiny of the KHL Disciplinary Committee. In the 6th minute, Nizhnekamsk forward Yaroslav Alshevsky was sent off...
View ArticleThe difference a few days can make. January 15 round-up
SKA seemed to be in trouble after a series of poor results either side of the New Year, but Wednesday’s 6-3 home win over Dynamo Moscow has transformed the mood around the Petersburg club.Following...
View ArticleThe race of the runners-up. January 16 round-up
Avangard and Traktor reached the 2012 and 2013 Gagarin Cup finals respectively, but this season both teams face a struggle to make the play-offs at all. Traktor is currently in eighth in the east, just...
View ArticleBans for Zakharchuk, Alexeyev and Karsums
Events during Wednesday’s games in the Championship led to a busy day for the KHL Disciplinary Committee, with incidents from three clashes coming under official scrutiny.In the 55th minute of the game...
View ArticleGorovikov’s winning return. January 17 round-up
Dynamo welcomed Konstantin Gorovikov back to the team and was able once again to name its ever-reliable Komarov-Gorovikov-Pestushko troika. And, not for the first time this season, that line came up...
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