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Rule changes for the 2024-2025 season
For the 2024-2025 Fonbet Kontinental Hockey League season, based on the analysis and a survey conducted among all clubs and in accordance with the League’s development strategy aimed at enhancing the entertainment value and offensive play, rule changes will be implemented.
Freezing the puck and cancelling major penalties Rule changes for 2022-2023
KHL.ru publishes the changes in the rules that will apply to League games, starting with the season 2022-2023. The changes are associated with deliberate freezing of the puck along the boards, the ability of referees to cancel a major penalty, the choice of faceoff dots by the attacking team, and other aspects of the game.
Alexei Anisimov: ‘Coaches can make as many challenges as they want’
On July 21, the KHL’s officials began their preparations for the new season with a study and training camp. The league’s chief referee, Alexei Anisimov, told KHL.ru about that camp and the changes to the rules coming into force this season.
Danny Kurmann: “I’m impressed with quality of KHL officials”
Danny Kurmann, a director of the IIHF Officiating Committee, paid a quick visit to Russia last week. He took the chance to see a couple of playoff games in Moscow and St. Petersburg and met with the KHL’s chief referee, Alexei Anisimov, and Mikhail Karpushin, head of the Russian Hockey Federation’s officiating department.
New rules for the new season
The coming season will bring into force several rule changes in the KHL. These have been implemented following the publication of the latest version of the IIHF rulebook. The key amendments are discussed below, with comments from Alexei Gorsky, director of the KHL’s refereeing department.
Refereeing Department on Cup-winning goal
Following Ak Bars forward Rob Klinkhammer’s goal in the 42nd minute of Sunday's match in Kazan – the goal which sealed victory for his team in the Gagarin Cup final series against CSKA - the visitors' bench appealed for a video review to ascertain whether the CSKA goalie had been blocked before the goal had been scored. As the video footage shows, there was no illegal impedence of the goaltender by the Kazan player, and as a result, the referee correctly allowed the goal to stand.
Refereeing Department on Kazan's goal and no-goal
In the 37th minute of Monday's match in Kazan, Game 2 of the Gagarin Cup final series between Ak Bars and CSKA, a goal from Kazan's Rob Klinkhammer restored the home team's lead, but the referee referred the episode to the video goal judge to ascertain whether Ak Bars had too many players on the ice. The video showed that no such violation of the rule had occurred, and so the referee awarded a goal.
Refereeing Department clarifies SKA's no-goal
In the 36th minure of Friday's match in Saint Petersburg, Game 5 of the Western Conference final series between the hosts, SKA, and CSKA Moscow, the video goal judge was called upon to determine whether the puck had crossed the Muscovites' goal-line following a shot from SKA's Jarno Koskiranta. As the video footage shows, CSKA goaltender Lars Johansson had made a successful save, and therefore no goal was given.
