The 2016–17 KHL season was the ninth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The season started on 22 August 2016 and ended on 16 April 2017. SKA Saint Petersburg defeated Metallurg Magnitogorsk four games to one to win their second Gagarin Cup Championship in three seasons.
The KHL had the third highest average attendance in Europe, averaging 6,121 spectators, and the highest total attendance in Europe with 5.32 million spectators in the regular season.
Team changes The Chinese club HC Kunlun Red Star from Beijing, China joined the league, to become its 29th team.
The Russian Club Metallurg Novokuznetsk was relegated due to debt.
Divisions and regular season format Like in the 2015–16 season, each team played every other team once at home and once on the road, giving a total of 56 games (28 at home, 28 on the road), plus 4 additional games (2 at home, 2 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 HC Kunlun Red Star Slovan Bratislava Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod Traktor Chelyabinsk Metallurg Novokuznetsk Spartak Moscow Vityaz Podolsk Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk Salavat Yulaev Ufa Sibir Novosibirsk
League standings
Western Conference
Eastern Conference
Gagarin Cup Playoffs
The playoffs started on 21 February 2017, with the top eight teams from each of the conferences and end with the last game of the Gagarin Cup final on 16 April 2017.
Bracket
Final standings
RankTeam 1 SKA Saint Petersburg 2 Metallurg Magnitogorsk 3 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 4 Ak Bars Kazan 5 CSKA Moscow 6 Dynamo Moscow 7 Avangard Omsk 8 Barys Astana 9 Dinamo Minsk 10 Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod 11 Traktor Chelyabinsk 12 Vityaz 13 Jokerit 14 Salavat Yulaev Ufa 15 Admiral Vladivostok 16 HC Kunlun Red Star 17 Sochi 18 Slovan Bratislava 19 Sibir Novosibirsk 20 Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 21 Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg 22 Amur Khabarovsk 23 Severstal Cherepovets 24 Medveščak Zagreb 25 Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk 26 Spartak Moscow 27 Lada Togliatti 28 Dinamo Riga 29 Metallurg Novokuznetsk
Player statistics
Scoring leaders
As of 18 February 2017 Player Team GP G A Pts +/– PIM Sergei Mozyakin Metallurg Magnitogorsk 60 48 37 85 +10 4 Ilya Kovalchuk SKA Saint Petersburg 60 32 46 78 +28 47 Vadim Shipachyov SKA Saint Petersburg 50 26 50 76 +33 22 Nikita Gusev SKA Saint Petersburg 57 24 47 71 +33 8 Evgenii Dadonov SKA Saint Petersburg 53 30 36 66 +33 39
Source: KHL
Leading goaltenders
As of 18 February 2017
Player Team GP Min W L SOP GA SO SV% GAA Alexander Yeryomenko Dynamo Moscow 37 2092:48 24 4 5 45 9 .950 1.29 Pavel Francouz Traktor Chelyabinsk 30 1718:50 14 9 3 41 5 .953 1.43 Ilya Sorokin CSKA Moscow 39 2276:14 25 7 6 61 5 .929 1.61 Igor Shestyorkin SKA Saint Petersburg 39 2190:49 27 4 6 60 8 .937 1.64 Viktor Fasth CSKA Moscow 21 1169:05 15 2 2 33 4 .929 1.69
Source: KHL
Awards
Players of the Month Best KHL players of each month.
MonthGoaltenderDefenseForwardRookieSeptember Ilya Proskuryakov (Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod) Mat Robinson (Dynamo Moscow) Sergei Mozyakin (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) Vladimir Tkachev (Admiral Vladivostok)October Igor Shestyorkin (SKA Saint Petersburg) Chris Lee (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) Ilya Kovalchuk (SKA Saint Petersburg) Artyom Zagidulin (Kunlun Red Star)November Vasily Demchenko (Traktor Chelyabinsk) Zakhar Arzamastsev (Salavat Yulaev Ufa) Sergei Mozyakin (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) Dmitry Shulenin (Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod)December Alexander Yeryomenko (Dynamo Moscow) Yegor Martynov (Avangard Omsk) Richard Gynge (Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk) Vladimir Tkachev (Admiral Vladivostok)January Alexander Yeryomenko (Dynamo Moscow) Juuso Hietanen (Dynamo Moscow) Sergei Mozyakin (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) Artyom Ilenko (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl)February Alexander Yeryomenko (Dynamo Moscow) Jakub Nakládal (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl) Sergei Mozyakin (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) Denis Alexeyev (Admiral Vladivostok)March Vasily Koshechkin (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) Vladislav Gavrikov (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl) Danis Zaripov (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) Grigori Dronov (Metallurg Magnitogorsk)April
References
External links Season schedule 2016–17