The 2015–16 KHL season was the eighth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The season started on 24 August 2015 with the Opening Cup between defending champions SKA Saint Petersburg and last year's Continental Cup winners CSKA Moscow, replacing Ak Bars Kazan, the previous season's Gagarin Cup finalists.
Team changes Spartak Moscow returned to the league prior to this season. (in Russian), www.Iltalehti.fi, (in Finnish) It was also announced by KHL President Dmitry Chernyshenko that Atlant Moscow Oblast would not participate in the league this season due to financial problems., www.championat.com, (in Russian)
Divisions and regular season format In this season, each team played every other team once at home and once on the road, giving a total of 54 games (27 at home, 27 on the road), plus 6 additional games (3 at home, 3 on the road) played by each team against rival clubs from its own conference. Thus, each team played a total of 60 games in the regular season.
How the teams are divided into divisions and conferences is shown in the table below.
Western Conference Eastern Conference
Bobrov Division Tarasov Division Kharlamov Division Chernyshev Division Dinamo Minsk CSKA Moscow Ak Bars Kazan Admiral Vladivostok Dinamo Riga Dynamo Moscow Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg Amur Khabarovsk Jokerit HC Sochi Lada Togliatti Avangard Omsk Medveščak Zagreb Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Metallurg Magnitogorsk Barys Astana SKA Saint Petersburg Severstal Cherepovets Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk Metallurg Novokuznetsk Slovan Bratislava Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod Traktor Chelyabinsk Salavat Yulaev Ufa Spartak Moscow Vityaz Podolsk Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk Sibir Novosibirsk
League standings
Western Conference
Eastern Conference
Gagarin Cup Playoffs
The playoffs started on 21 February 2016 with the top eight teams from each of the conferences, and ended with the last game of the Gagarin Cup final on 19 April 2016.
Bracket
Final standings
RankTeam 1 Metallurg Magnitogorsk 2 CSKA Moscow 3 Salavat Yulaev Ufa 4 SKA Saint Petersburg 5 Avangard Omsk 6 Dynamo Moscow 7 Sibir Novosibirsk 8 Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod 9 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 10 Jokerit 11 HC Sochi 12 Ak Bars Kazan 13 Admiral Vladivostok 14 Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg 15 Slovan Bratislava 16 Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 17 Barys Astana 18 Dinamo Minsk 19 Traktor Chelyabinsk 20 Medveščak Zagreb 21 Spartak Moscow 22 Dinamo Riga 23 Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk 24 Vityaz Podolsk 25 Amur Khabarovsk 26 Lada Togliatti 27 Severstal Cherepovets 28 Metallurg Novokuznetsk
Player statistics
Scoring leaders
As of 18 February 2016 Player Team GP G A Pts +/– PIM Sergei Mozyakin Metallurg Magnitogorsk 57 32 35 67 +11 0 Alexander Radulov CSKA Moscow 53 23 42 65 +28 73 Brandon Bochenski Barys Astana 60 20 41 61 +16 48 Vadim Shipachyov SKA Saint Petersburg 54 17 43 60 −8 63 Linus Omark Salavat Yulaev Ufa 60 18 39 57 +12 40 Matt Ellison Dinamo Minsk 54 26 29 55 −10 54 Danis Zaripov Metallurg Magnitogorsk 60 22 32 54 +9 26 Nigel Dawes Barys Astana 55 31 22 53 +15 16 Justin Azevedo Ak Bars Kazan 59 17 36 53 +6 26 Jan Kovář Metallurg Magnitogorsk 58 20 32 52 +7 61
Source: KHL
Leading goaltenders
As of 18 February 2016
Player Team GP Min W L SOP GA SO SV% GAA Ilya Sorokin CSKA Moscow 28 1638:53 17 7 4 29 10 .953 1.06 Alexei Murygin Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 34 1962:29 22 8 3 37 13 .954 1.13 Stanislav Galimov CSKA/Ak Bars 28 1669:11 18 6 4 42 7 .938 1.51 Viktor Fasth CSKA Moscow 20 1122:04 13 4 1 31 3 .921 1.66 Alexander Yeryomenko Dynamo Moscow 23 1392:08 11 4 7 41 2 .936 1.77
Source: KHL
Awards
Players of the Month Best KHL players of each month.
MonthGoaltenderDefenseForwardRookieSeptember Alexei Murygin (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl) Mat Robinson (Dynamo Moscow) Sergei Mozyakin (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) Roman Manukhov (Metallurg Novokuznetsk)October Alexander Salák (Sibir Novosibirsk) Mikhail Pashnin (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl) Nigel Dawes (Barys Astana) Artyom Zub (Amur Khabarovsk)November Danny Taylor (Medveščak Zagreb) Staffan Kronwall (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl) Anatoly Golyshev (Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg) Alexander Polunin (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl)December Dominik Furch (Avangard Omsk) Kevin Dallman (Barys Astana) Danis Zaripov (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) Vladislav Gavrikov (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl)January Ilya Sorokin (CSKA Moscow) Mat Robinson (Dynamo Moscow) Vadim Shipachyov (SKA St. Petersburg) Igor Ustinsky (Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg)February Alexander Yeryomenko (Dynamo Moscow) Anton Belov (SKA St. Petersburg) Peter Regin (Jokerit) Artur Lauta (Avangard Omsk)March Ilya Sorokin (CSKA Moscow) Denis Denisov (CSKA Moscow) Sergei Mozyakin (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) Yuri Sergiyenko (Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod)April
Milestones
References
External links Season schedule 2015–16 Season regulations 2015–16