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Gagarin Cup winners, Olympic stars and a promising young defenseman. Each of these six have made an impact on the KHL, but won’t be back next season.

A pioneering Dane, a familiar Frenchman and a Czech goalie on the up – the summer trades have brought another intriguing assortment of international stars to the KHL. Here’s a look at some of the players to watch for.

With the new season just days away, it’s time to start looking over some of the big trades of the summer. This pre-season, like last year, we’ve seen several players returning home from North America to continue their careers in the KHL. From a goalie who threatened a seismic shock at the Olympics to a Russian Superleague champion, via a #1 NHL draft pick, it’s quite a selection.

Pre-season success for home teams continued on Monday with SKA claiming the Puchkov Memorial Trophy in St. Petersburg.

Vityaz went to Switzerland and won the Luhner Cup, a three-team tournament also involving locals Ambri-Piotta and Germany’s Adler Mannheim.

Salavat Yulaev won the Chelyabinsk Governor’s Cup while Avangard enjoyed a second successive shut-out against Metallurg. It was shoot-outs, not shut-outs, as two KHL teams went head-to-head in the Czech Republic.

The Czech town of Pardubice paid tribute to Zbynek Kusy, legendary GM of the local Dynamo club and multiple trophy winner. He passed away in 2015 and a pre-season tournament was established in his memory. This year’s edition sees Admiral and Slovan join Dynamo Pardubice and Eisbaren Berlin in a four-team tournament which began on Thursday.

Day Two of the Chelyabinsk Governor’s Cup saw Richard Gynge starring in the host’s 6-4 win over Metallurg. Earlier, Salavat Yulaev edged Avangard in overtime to leave the Siberians awaiting their first win of the competition.

The first game of the day in Astana was destined to determine the victory in this tournament. Neftekhimik held the initiative with six points from two games, but Amur was still in contention after a victory and an overtime loss.

A shut-out win over Dinamo Minsk makes it five victories from five games for the men from the Urals as they collect the Nizhny Novgorod Governor's Cup.

There’s no such thing as a dead rubber in Nizhny Novgorod, where both of today’s games went to shoot-outs even though the title was already won by Avtomobilist. In Astana, Neftekhimik and Barys shared nine goals, while Amur won 4-0 against Kazakhstan.

Avtomobilist secured top spot at the Nizhny Novgorod Governor’s Cup with its fourth victory in the tournament, while Barys made a winning start at the President of Kazakhstan’s Cup thanks to an overtime goal from a new signing.

A famous name is back in business as Tretiak backstops Dinamo Riga to victory with two penalty shot saves. Elsewhere, Red Star fires blanks again in Sochi and Avtomobilist impresses without its star names.

Day two of the Sochi Hockey Open saw two of the KHL’s traditional powerhouses pick up victories. Ak Bars shrugged off its opening night loss to defeat a Russian representative team, while SKA eased past HC Sochi in the evening game.

KHL.ru presents the full schedule of 2018 preseason tournaments.

KHL.ru publishes the full list of preseason exhibition games and tournaments. The results will be added later.

Hiring Sandis Ozolins means creating big hopes, but the coach didn’t have a great success in his first attempt as a KHL team’s head coach.

The team which allowed more goals during the regular season changed coach in October already, but it did not help. KHL.ru reviews Slovan’s 2017/2018 season.

After two seasons where Admiral got to the playoffs, the Seamen had the worst season in their history. KHL.ru keeps on reviewing the 2017/2018 season.

Sibir decided to change coach during the season, had a great showing later on, but couldn’t get to the playoffs as they missed a single point. KHL.ru reviews the 2017/2018 season for Sibir Novosibirsk.

Valery Belov’s team didn’t manage to repeat last year’s achievements and didn’t access to the postseason.

KHL.ru keeps on reviewing the seasons for the league’s teams. Today it’s the turn of Dinamo Minsk. One of the most popular teams in Belarus had a rocky start of the season, then improved things a bit, but without managing to get to the playoffs.

KHL.ru gives the fans a chance to acquaint with the preseason plans for the different teams in the league. The last article is for the Chernyshev Division.

KHL teams finally determined their preseason plans. The League’s official site starts presenting the training camp and preseason games of the teams in sight of the 11th KHL season.

After the shocks of the offseason, the Blue and White fought till the end to get to the top eight, but in the end, they didn’t fulfill their goal. KHL.ru reviews the 2017/2018 season of HC Dynamo.