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While one traditional powerhouse celebrates its rise to first place, another is refreshing its imports after a run of unconvincing form. And it’s less than a week until the beginning of the All-Star Week.

KHL.ru continues its series looking at the league’s legends. Today we’re talking about the career of one of our best goalies, World Champion and Gagarin Cup finalist Konstantin Barulin.

After 15 full seasons of the KHL, it’s a great time to look back at the careers of some of the guys who have become league legends. In the new material, the story is about the main record holder of the KHL, Sergei Mozyakin, whose achievements will be remembered for many years to come.

Which pair of KHL prospects are battling out a personal rivalry that could grow into one of the big sporting tussles of their era? Take a look at Lokomotiv to find out more ...

The 2022-2023 KHL season got underway last week, and there’s already plenty of action to talk about. Here’s a reminder of some of the highlights.

Continuing KHL.ru’s series about the top coaches from the first 12 seasons of the competition, we’re looking beyond Russia’s borders to check out the two most successful foreign coaches in the league’s history.

Usually, import players come from hockey giants like Canada, the US, or the Nordic Countries. The Czech Republic and Slovakia also provided and keep on providing the league with plenty of talent. However, four countries also contributed with some of the finest performers in the years of the league’s existence and even Gagarin Cup champions. Today, the talk is about Austria, Norway, Slovenia, and Switzerland.

From a Stanley Cup winner to a forward who has played all 12 KHL seasons at one club, Latvia’s leading players in the league cover all bases. Here’s a rundown of the all-time stars, including one forward inspired by Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

Earlier in this series, we looked at the imports who enjoyed the most productive KHL seasons compared with their compatriots. Today the talk is about Germany, Denmark, and France. Many players proved that you don’t have to come from Russia, North America, or a Nordic country to be a high-level player. Moreover, many of these talents keep on delivering today.

Among the KHL’s leading Czech players of the last 12 years, we find two brothers at opposite ends of the ice, multiple Gagarin Cup winners and a clutch of players from the only non-Russian team to a reach a Grand Final.

Earlier in this series, we looked at the imports who enjoyed the most productive KHL seasons compared with their compatriots. Today the talk is about the USA. America gave the KHL a lot of top talent, including players who then decided to represent their new countries on the international stage. One of them recently became a mayor in the US.

Earlier in this series, we looked at the imports who enjoyed the most productive KHL seasons compared with their compatriots. Today the talk is about Finland, a country that gave the league high-level goalies, smooth defensemen, and an elevate number of Gagarin Cup winners.

Some of the biggest names in Slovak hockey — Pavol Demitra, Miroslav Satan — have played in the KHL. However, they don’t feature on the list of Slovakia’s All-Time leaders in the KHL. For Satan, his spells with Dynamo Moscow and Slovan Bratislava were late in his illustrious career; for Demitra, tragically, his time at Lokomotiv was cut short after one brilliant season. But Slovakia has contributed many more fine players to the KHL — from Spartak’s contingent in the early years to the Red-and-Whites’ current goalie via several stars who represented Slovan.

June brings a new series, delving into the archives to bring the leading KHL players from the different countries that have contributed to the league since 2008. Today, the talk is about four countries. Austria, Norway, Slovenia, and Switzerland didn’t give the KHL a lot of quantity. Still, the quality often was outstanding as some of the best-ever performers in the league come from these countries.

June brings a new series, delving into the archives to bring the leading KHL players from the different countries that have contributed to the league since 2008. Today, the talk is about Sweden. The Tre Kronor had an incredible influence on the league, and some of the most productive players in the history of the league represented this country on the international stage. However, you will need to scroll down quite a bit to finally find Linus Omark.

June brings a new series, delving into the archives to bring the leading KHL players from the different countries that have contributed to the league since 2008. After Canada, we have a look at Finland, a land brimful of love for hockey, and a steady producer of high-level players. Here are the best Finnish performers in a single season.

KHL.ru keeps on presenting the top players in each position in its 12 seasons of history. Today, it's time to start climbing the podium with the third best-ever goalie, Konstantin Barulin.

Continuing our rundown of the KHL’s top players in each position. 12 seasons, 12 players. Today we’re going on with goalies with Mikko Koskinen and Stanislav Galimov.

Scoring a hat-trick is quite a feat on its own. However, as the stakes rise, so do the goals’ value. Until last Saturday, the KHL never saw a hat-trick in the Gagarin Cup finals. Now, Grigorenko conquered that peak. KHL.ru remembers the most-memorable hat-tricks in the playoffs.

KHL.ru continues its series about the most impactful players in KHL history. This time, the series visits Dimitrij Kotschnew, the German goalkeeper of Kazakh origin, who spent four highly successful seasons in the KHL.

Springtime, if not quite here, is certainly already on the arrivals board, and for hockey fans it means the season of the playoffs. The knockout stage, of course, is designed to determine which team is the best of the best, but in this part of our series of trips down KHL Memory Lane, we focus on the outsiders who became dark horses – not those who meekly followed the script and went straight on vacation, nor even those who went down fighting in a blaze of glory, but those unfancied heroes who, over the past decade, have defied the experts and produced sensational wins over their illustrious opponents.