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5 July 2018, 13:00 Officially

2018/2019 season calendar: start in September and comfortable playoffs
On July 5, the Kontinental Hockey League presented the calendar of the 11th season. The main principles behind the choices were the interests of teams, fans, TV partners, and national teams.
2 July 2018, 15:00 Officially

How the KHL teams ranking changed in 2017/2018
At the League teams’ directors meeting on May 23, 2018, the new ranking parameters were presented, and the teams were again ranked by the various indicators. KHL.ru explains what factors influenced on the teams’ positions improvement or worsening at the end of the jubilee season.
27 June 2018, 10:00 Officially

Durex and KHL will organize a campaign against HIV
Durex (Reckitt Benckiser Healthcare Ltd) and the Kontinental Hockey League have signed a cooperation agreement. During the 2018/2019 season they will organize a massive social project with the aim of raising public awareness in sexual health and countering the HIV and AIDs spread in Russia.
26 June 2018, 19:08 Preseason

Review of 2017/2018. Spartak: Playoffs after five years
KHL.ru goes on with teams’ review. Today it’s Spartak’s turn. The Red-Whites led by Vadim Yepanchintsev managed to fulfill the season’s main goal and after a five-year pause they managed to get to the playoffs. However, Spartak’s postseason was very short.
24 June 2018, 17:00 News

King Kovalchuk!
Two-time Gagarin Cup winner, Olympic Champion and multiple World Champion Ilya Kovalchuk is heading for Los Angeles. After weighing offers from four NHL teams, Kovi decided to join the Kings after his departure from SKA at the end of the season.
24 June 2018, 15:25 News

20 Russians drafted in best result since 2004
Day two of the NHL draft saw 16 more Russian players selected, taking the 2018 total to 20. That’s the best result since 2004.
23 June 2018, 19:00 News

Andrei Svechnikov – what you need to know
Andrei Svechnikov, the #2 pick in this year’s NHL draft, is the highest-ranked Russian since Nail Yakupov was the first name chosen in 2012. And he’s in good company: there hasn’t been a Russian drafted as second pick since 2004 when Evgeny Malkin was selected right after Alexander Ovechkin.
23 June 2018, 15:00 News

Kravtsov and Denisenko – from the KHL to the first round
Two of the KHL’s emerging stars were selected in the first round of the NHL draft in Dallas. Traktor’s Vitaly Kravtsov was chosen by the New York Rangers as the ninth pick overall – slightly higher than many pundits expected. Grigory Denisenko was #15 in draft and is joining the Florida Panthers organization. A fourth Russian, Alexander Alexeyev, was chosen by Stanley Cup winner Washington Capitals with the final pick of the first round.
23 June 2018, 14:06 News

A big year for Russian prospects
The 2018 NHL draft is underway – and it’s already looking like a vintage year for young Russian talent.
25 May 2018, 09:00 Officially

In the Words of the Winners – Quotes from KHL Closing Ceremony
On Wednesday, the 23rd of May, the concert hall of Moscow’s Barvikha Luxury Village hotel played host to the Closing Ceremony for the tenth-anniversary KHL season, and much has already been written and said by those who attended the event, or reported on it, or broadcast from it, but what was the glittering gala evening like for those viewing it from the stage – the winners themselves?
24 May 2018, 21:00 Officially

Glamour, glitz and goal-getters – the KHL Closing Ceremony
24 May 2018, 18:20 Officially

All that glitters... All the winners. KHL-10 Closing Ceremony
Red carpets and stars of hockey, politics, and show business, with trophies and medals glittering under the glare of the spotlight, limelight, and flash photography, elegant ladies in eye-popping outfits, and last, but by no means least, more than two dozen awards for the greatest players and all the other heroes whose exploits made the jubilee season of the KHL Championship such a roaring success.
23 May 2018, 22:00 Officially

Heroics Rewarded. Closing Ceremony of 10th KHL Championship
On Wednesday, the 23rd of May, in the concert hall of Moscow’s Barvikha Luxury Village hotel, the KHL staged the 2017-18 season Closing Ceremony. Here we present for you the list of award winners from the 10th KHL Championship.
22 May 2018, 19:52 News

24 hours to go! Don't miss the KHL Closing Ceremony!
The tenth anniversary season of the Kontinental Hockey League is now another glorious chapter in the history books of our beloved game, but there is still some important unfinished business, namely the Closing Ceremony - the glittering gala evening at which we reward those whose exploits made the jubilee season of the KHL Championship such a spectacular success.
22 May 2018, 19:21 News

Golden Sticks and Knights in Shining Armor – a decade of Closing Ceremonies
On Wednesday, the 23rd of May, at 19:40 Moscow Time, the League hosts a glittering gala evening, the grand finale to its jubilee season – the Closing Ceremony of the tenth season of the KHL Championship.
1 May 2018, 14:29 News

A winter classic and a playoff marathon – six of the best games of 2017-18
The League's first open-air encounter, its longest ever match, a minute of madness in Ufa, and another all-Army classic. KHL.ru looks back at half-a-dozen of the best games from the tenth season of the Championship.
13 April 2018, 08:00 News

Farewell, Ilya! Six seasons of Kovalchuk in the KHL
When the reigning champion, SKA, made its exit from the playoffs, it heralded the departure of one of the brightest stars to have graced the League, and this he did for six of its ten seasons. Less than a week before his 35th birthday, two-time Gagarin Cup winner Ilya Kovalchuk announced that he was heading back to North America to re-ignite his NHL career. In addition to wishing him all the best, KHL. ru decided to take a look back at the formidable forward's achievements during his time back in his home country.
11 April 2018, 09:52 News

The Champions’ Curse
CSKA’s victory over SKA in this year’s Western Conference final means that, for the 10th season running, the regular season champion will not lift the Gagarin Cup. So what happened to the top seeds in each of the 10 playoff campaigns the KHL has seen so far?
4 April 2018, 12:13 News

KHL and Canon launch creative photo contest
The Kontinental Hockey League has joined forces with Canon and devised a new and exciting competition to reward the finest photographs taken at matches in the KHL Championship over the 10-year history of the League.
21 March 2018, 13:29 News

It's a knockout! Eight of the greatest playoff series
As the remaining clubs approach the halfway stage on the journey to the Gagarin Cup final, we take this opportunity to recall some of the most exciting and unpredictable series we have witnessed over the ten seasons of the KHL.
14 March 2018, 16:54 News

KHL and Rainbo: a new gift for fans of video games
Tech company Rainbo, in conjunction with the KHL, has launched a new line of consoles and gamepads for the world's vast army of hockey fans. This collection will be both a precious gift for hockey fans and a vivid banner for the Kontinental Hockey League at the global of e-sports.
7 March 2018, 12:25 News

Sibir's exploits and SKA's exits – 10 shock results from the playoffs
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.
28 February 2018, 19:06 News

Touchdown! Gagarin Cup and 10th-anniversary puck return to Earth

In the early hours of the morning of Wednesday, the 28th of February, 2018, or to be precise, 05.31 Moscow time, the descent module from the Soyuz MS-06 manned spacecraft made a successful landing in the Kazakh steppe. Accompanying the spacemen on their journey back from orbit were two priceless artefacts – a miniature replica of the Gagarin Cup trophy and a KHL puck dedicated to this 10th-anniversary season of the League.

28 February 2018, 15:34 News

KHL LIVE on FreeSports

The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) play-offs will be shown on free-to-air television live on FreeSports throughout March & April.

26 February 2018, 15:39 News

KHL at the Licensing World Russia exhibition

The Kontinental Hockey League is to participate once again in the annual Licensing World Russia exhibition, which features the bearers of the rights to the most popular and successful Russian and foreign brands. The exhibition runs from the 27th of February to the 1st March, 2018, and his held at Crocus Expo, Moscow's famous inernational exhibition center.

22 February 2018, 12:01 Interview

Interview from orbit, awaiting a CSKA – Ak Bars final
Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Alexander Misurkin, currently orbiting the Earth aboard the International Space Station, answered questions from KHL.ru about who they will be supporting in the upcoming playoffs, and gave us a view of two of their traveling companions - the miniature Gagarin Cup trophy and the Kontinental Hockey League puck – sent into space to commemorate the tenth season of the Championship.
4 February 2018, 15:01 Interview

Alexander Khokhlachyov: Victory in Petersburg? I've nothing to prove to SKA
Spartak forward Alexander Khokhlachyov spoke to KHL.ru about his breakthrough season at Spartak, the Red-and-Whites' playoff chances, his first hat-trick in the League, and the Russian Olympic team.
1 February 2018, 20:00 Best Players

January's finest: Francouz, Larsen, Khokhlachyov and Bikmullin
To mark the end of the fourth full month's play of the tenth season of the Championship, the Kontinental Hockey League has named the best players of January in four categories.
29 January 2018, 16:13 Best Players

Players of the Week: Metsola, Kondratyev, Khokhlachyov and Gegeris
To mark the end of the twenty-third week of the tenth season of the Championship, the Kontinental Hockey League has named the best players of the week in four categories.
25 January 2018, 13:17 News

Dark horses. Teams that gatecrashed the playoff party
23 January 2018, 12:05 Winter Olympic Games 2018

16 KHL men in Finland's Olympic roster
28 December 2017, 15:00 SDC

Khokhlachyov disqualified from Amur game
In Tuesday's match against Admiral in Vladivostok, Spartak forward Alexander Khokhlachyov picked up a minor plus game misconduct penalty (2+10+20 minutes) for slashing. As this was the player's second 20-minute penalty of the current season, following the game misconduct for spearing he received after September's match against today's opponents, Amur, he incurs a fine and an automatic one-game suspension, thus ruling him out of the Red-and-Whites match in Khabarovsk.
22 December 2017, 23:25 The Week of Hockey Stars

Kovalchuk, Kagarlitsky, Markov и Dawes – All-Star team captains
21 December 2017, 12:16 The Week of Hockey Stars

From Lisin to the Ryazantsev – The Master Show's fastest and strongest.
18 December 2017, 14:00 News

Lift-off! Gagarin Cup and its Space Odyssey. Episode 3
18 December 2017, 13:00 News

Gagarin Cup and its Space Odyssey. Episode 2
18 December 2017, 11:55 News

Gagarin Cup and its Space Odyssey. Episode 1
13 December 2017, 17:53 Officially

Financial stability and commercial viability. KHL Board of Directors meet.
7 December 2017, 13:04 News

The Firing Line. 10 of the League's most curious coaching casualties
6 December 2017, 11:49 News

“He played in the KHL?” 10 stars who made a fleeting appearance.
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