Players of the Week 19: Laco, Robinson, Bochenski & Shmelyov
To mark the end of the nineteenth 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 was Jan Laco...
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Traktor racing. January 27 round-up
Traktor picked up another valuable win in the race to secure a play-off place, edging Amur 4-3 in Khabarovsk. But the Chelyabinsk team’s closest rival for a top-eight finish, Admiral, also maintained...
View ArticleBlagoi banned for 1 game
In the 42nd minute of Monday’s game in Donetsk between Donbass and Lokomotiv, home team forward Roman Blagoi was ordered off for the remainder of the game after an illegal challenge by the boards on...
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Dynamo pays the penalty. January 28 round-up
Penalties and power plays made all the difference as Slovan picked up a 3-2 win at Dynamo Moscow.The home team took the lead on a first-period power play, with Dmitry Pestunov scoring at the second...
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The play-off battle. January 29 round-up
Wednesday’s games – the last before the KHL adjourns for the Olympics – saw the remaining contenders for a play-off spot slug it out. In the East, the two key rivals went head-to-head in Vladivostok,...
View ArticlePlayers of the Week 20: Stepanek, Kutuzov, Yunkov & Smurov
To mark the end of the twentieth 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 was Jakub Stepanek...
View ArticleVorobyov leaves Lokomotiv
Pyotr Vorobyov has requested to be relieved of his duties as head coach of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, citing poor health as the reason. An announcement from the club regarding Vorobyov’s replacement is...
View ArticleKing returns to Russia
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl has announced the appointment of Canadian specialist Dave King as the new head coach. The 66-year-old brings with him a wealth of experience from a long and varied career on the...
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KHL-TV introduces new, enhanced coverage of Gazprom Neft Cup
KHL-TV is to significantly upgrade its coverage of the VIII annual Gazprom Neft Cup, the Kontinental Hockey League’s international children’s hockey tournament, to reflect the considerable growth of...
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The finest possible conditions for the media
When the Organizing Committee of the VIII Gazprom Neft Cup, the KHL’s international children’s hockey tournament, gathered in Omsk for a meeting on January 27th of this year, one of the key questions...
View ArticleJanuary’s finest: Kovar, Antipin, Mozyakin & Shmelyov
To mark the end of the fifth month’s play of the sixth season of the KHL Championship, The League has named the best players of the month in four categories. – Best goaltender for the second successive...
View ArticleList of All KHL Players in Sochi
The Kontinental Hockey League has released a list of all the current KHL players representing their various countries at the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games, and the bare statistics provide eloquent testimony...
View ArticleRussia, united, will never be defeated. KHL President addresses Russia’s...
The day we have all been waiting for seven years has finally arrived, and I am happy to take this opportunity to address those who over the next two weeks will be competing in Sochi and defending the...
View ArticleHeikkila joins Neftekhimik
Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk has announced the appointment of Kari Heikkila as a consultant coach. It marks a return to the KHL for the 54-year-old Finnish specialist, who was coach at Lokomotiv from 2007...
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Training day in Sochi
Sochi’s ice palace hosted a day of open training sessions from the men’s hockey rosters on Monday, and eleven of the twelve competing nations, all except Austria, were put through their paces by their...
View ArticleChizhovka Arena gets ready for Gazprom Neft Cup
Games in the West Group of this year’s Gazprom Neft Cup, the KHL’s annual international children’s hockey tournament, will be played on two rinks at Minsk’s new, state-of-the-art ice palace, the...
View ArticleONE World Sports secures exclusive North American rights to carry KHL games
ONE World Sports, which offers coverage of world-class sports events from around the globe, has secured exclusive, multiplatform rights to carry games from the Kontinental Hockey League.The...
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