The 2022–23 KHL season was the 15th season of the Kontinental Hockey League. There were 22 teams that competed in the record-breaking 68 regular season games, beginning on 1 September 2022 and ending on 26 February 2023.
Season changes For the 2022–23 season, the competition was reduced to 22 teams after Latvian club, Dinamo Riga, and Finnish club, Jokerit, withdrew from the competition during the previous 2021–22 playoffs due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
HC Vityaz moved from the Vityaz Ice Palace in Podolsk, which was declared no longer acceptable for the KHL's requirements, to Balashikha Arena in Balashikha. Vityaz's youth academy stayed in Podolsk.
The regular season was expanded to feature 748 games scheduled for 164 gamedays, with each club to play a record-breaking 68 regular season engagements. The regular season was have just one international break, from 12–18 December 2022. That pause was preceded by the 2022 All-Star Week in Chelyabinsk on 10 and 11 of December.
Teams The 22 teams are split into four divisions: the Bobrov Division and the Tarasov Division as part of the Western Conference, with the Kharlamov Division and the Chernyshev Division as part of the Eastern Conference.
Kunlun Red Star were the only team to be realigned, moving from the Kharalamov Division in the Eastern Conference to the Tarasov Division in the Western Conference.
Western ConferenceEastern Conference Bobrov Division Tarasov Division Kharlamov Division Chernyshev Division SKA Saint Petersburg CSKA Moscow Ak Bars Kazan Admiral Vladivostok HC Sochi Dinamo Minsk Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg Amur Khabarovsk Spartak Moscow Dynamo Moscow Metallurg Magnitogorsk Avangard Omsk Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod Kunlun Red Star Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk Barys Astana Vityaz Moscow Region Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Traktor Chelyabinsk Salavat Yulaev Ufa Severstal Cherepovets Sibir Novosibirsk
League standings Each team played 68 games: played every other team home-and-away (42 games), plus an additional 20 intra-conference games (10 home and 10 away games). The remaining 6 games were slated against opposition selected with a view to increasing the number of high-profile match-ups (3 home, 3 on the road). Points were awarded for each game, where two points were awarded for all victories, regardless of whether it was in regulation time, in overtime or after game-winning shots. One point was awarded for losing in overtime or game-winning shots, and zero points for losing in regulation time.
Western Conference
Eastern Conference
Continental Cup
Gagarin Cup playoffs The Gagarin Cup playoffs started on 1 March 2023. CSKA won the Gagarin Cup on April 29 in game 7 of the Gagarin Cup Finals with a score of 2-3 Bracket
Pairings within the conferences are re-seeded after the conference quarterfinals During the Gagarin Cup Finals the team that finished with higher seed in their conference has home ice (if both teams finished with the same seed the team that earned most points during the regular season has home ice) source: KHL
Statistics Scoring leaders
The following players led the league in points, at the conclusion of the regular season. If two or more skaters are tied (i.e. same number of points, goals and played games), all of the tied skaters are shown.
Player Team SKA Saint Petersburg 67 40 22 62 +21 48 Avangard Omsk 64 23 36 59 +17 31 Ak Bars Kazan 62 25 32 57 +10 66 Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg 54 20 36 56 +14 42 Avangard Omsk 68 16 40 56 +6 20 Avangard Omsk 64 31 24 55 +1 65 Spartak Moscow 65 19 36 55 –9 73 Sibir Novosibirsk 67 18 37 55 –2 50 SKA Saint Petersburg 65 11 44 55 +19 50 SKA Saint Petersburg 65 28 26 54 +9 36
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