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2 July 2018, 15:00 KHL Strategy

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.
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.

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.
25 January 2018, 13:17 News

Dark horses. Teams that gatecrashed the playoff party
3 December 2017, 19:38 News

Hockey under Helsinki skies. Scenes from Saturday's historic event
22 August 2017, 22:24 Daily Round-up

New coaches, winning starts. August 22 round-up
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