2009–10 KHL season

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League changes

On 16 June 2009, the KHL Board of Directors approved several changes to the league for the 2009–10 season.[2]

Team changes

The league admitted a new team, Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg. Khimik Voskresensk did not play in the 2009–10 season due to financial problems, but they retained KHL membership and may return at a later date, meanwhile playing in the Russian Major League. Overall, the number of teams playing in 2009–10 remained at 24.

Division realignment

Teams were geographically aligned to aid travel conditions. The league were divided into a Western and an Eastern conference, each containing two divisions of six teams. Each team played the other teams in the same division 4 times (for a total of 20 games) and each team in the other divisions 2 times (for a total of 36 games). The regular season thus consisted of 56 games for every team.

Play-off structure

The top eight teams from each conference qualified for the play-offs. Division winners were awarded the top two seeds. In each conference quarterfinals, semifinals and finals will be played and the conference winners play for the Gagarin Cup. Conference quarterfinals were best-of-five series, the remaining rounds best-of-seven series. Overtime periods last 20 minutes or until the sudden death goal.

Salary cap

The aggregate income of all players of a team was limited to 620 million rubles (~US$20 million). Minimum aggregate salary for the players was 200 million rubles (~US$6.5 million). Each teams was allowed one "franchise player" exception, who did not count towards the cap.

Rosters

25 players are allowed to be in the major team roster and 25 in the junior team roster of every club. The number of foreign players is restricted to 5, at most one of them as goaltender.

Junior league

The league implemented a more advanced and organized junior hockey sub-league to focus on development. It features players from 17 to 21 years of age.

Entry draft

On 1 June 2009, the inaugural entry draft for the KHL was held. Each team's hockey school was able to protect 25 players from the 17-21 agegroup prior to the draft.

Goal crease

Goal crease was shrunk to the NHL dimensions.[3]

Regular season

The regular season started on 10 September 2009 with the "Opening Cup" and ended on 7 March 2010. A few small breaks for the national team and the All-Star game as well as a large break for the Olympic winter games from 8 February to 3 March were scheduled.[1] Each team played a total of 56 games (4 times against the division opponents and 2 times against all other teams). The winner of the regular season was awarded the Continental Cup.[2]

Notable events

Opening Cup

The first game of each KHL season is the "Opening Cup" played between the two finalists of the last season. In 2009, the game was played at the TatNeft Arena in Kazan and won by last year's champion Ak Bars Kazan, beating runner-up Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 3–2 in overtime. The two teams were wearing special uniforms with an Opening Cup logo.[4]

Fetisov comeback

On 11 December 2009, Russian hockey legend Viacheslav Fetisov gave a one-game comeback in professional hockey at the age of 51. In this game for CSKA Moscow he played for 8 minutes without a shot on the goal, but it created a very large media interest, not only for himself but also for CSKA Moscow and the KHL.[5]

Mass brawl in Chekhov

On 9 January 2010, in the game between Vityaz Chekhov and Avangard Omsk, a bench-clearing brawl broke out in the 4th minute of the first period, and a bench- and penalty-box-clearing brawl broke out 39 seconds later, forcing the officials to abandon the game, since only four players were left to play. Thirty-three players and both teams' coaches were ejected, and a world record total of 707 penalty minutes were incurred.[6] The KHL imposed fines totaling 5.7 million rubles ($191,000), suspended seven players, and counted the game as a 5–0 defeat for both teams, with no points being awarded.[7]

All-Star Game

The 2nd KHL All-star game was played on 30 January 2010 in the new Minsk-Arena in Minsk, Belarus. As in the previous year, Team Jágr won against Team Yashin, this time with a score of 11–8.[8]

Continental Cup

The first Continental Cup in the KHL history was won by Salavat Yulaev Ufa on 5 March 2010, after the club became unreachable by other clubs in the KHL standings one game before the end of the regular season, and extended their regular-season winning streak to three.[9]

League standings

Source: khl.ru[10]

Points are awarded as follows:

  • 3 Points for a win in regulation ("W")
  • 2 Points for a win in overtime ("OTW") or penalty shootout ("SOW")
  • 1 Point for a loss in a penalty shootout ("SOL") or overtime ("OTL")
  • 0 Points for a loss in regulation ("L")
     Division winner
     Qualified for playoffs

Conference standings

The conference standings will determine the seedings for the play-offs. The first two places in each conference are reserved for the division leaders.

Rank Western Conference GP W OTW SOW SOL OTL L GF GA Pts
1 Template:Flagicon SKA Saint Petersburg 56 36 1 3 3 3 10 192 118 122
2 Template:Flagicon HC MVD 56 30 1 0 6 4 15 160 135 102
3 Template:Flagicon Dynamo Moscow 56 28 2 3 4 3 16 166 151 101
4 Template:Flagicon Atlant Moscow Oblast 56 24 4 9 1 2 16 173 137 101
5 Template:Flagicon Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 56 26 3 2 4 4 17 163 132 96
6 Template:Flagicon Spartak Moscow 56 24 4 4 4 0 20 178 168 92
7 Template:Flagicon CSKA Moscow 56 22 3 5 4 1 21 148 135 87
8 Template:Flagicon Dinamo Riga 56 23 1 3 4 3 22 174 175 84
9 Template:Flagicon Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod 56 22 1 1 1 4 27 154 163 75
10 Template:Flagicon Severstal Cherepovets 56 16 2 7 6 2 23 151 162 74
11 Template:Flagicon Dinamo Minsk 56 17 1 5 2 0 31 139 164 65
12 Template:Flagicon Vityaz Chekhov 56 13 3 2 2 3 331 1421 2161 541
Rank Eastern Conference GP W OTW SOW SOL OTL L GF GA Pts
1 Template:Flagicon Salavat Yulaev Ufa 56 37 4 3 3 1 8 215 116 129
2 Template:Flagicon Metallurg Magnitogorsk 56 34 2 4 1 0 15 167 111 115
3 Template:Flagicon Ak Bars Kazan 56 25 4 4 3 2 18 159 128 96
4 Template:Flagicon Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 56 27 3 1 4 0 21 176 166 93
5 Template:Flagicon Avangard Omsk 56 24 2 2 6 4 181 1521 1281 901
6 Template:Flagicon Barys Astana 56 20 5 1 6 1 23 169 173 79
7 Template:Flagicon Traktor Chelyabinsk 56 18 0 3 2 2 31 137 192 64
8 Template:Flagicon Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg 56 14 2 6 2 4 28 127 159 64
9 Template:Flagicon Sibir Novosibirsk 56 15 2 5 3 1 30 147 190 63
10 Template:Flagicon Amur Khabarovsk 56 12 3 6 4 2 29 129 187 60
11 Template:Flagicon Lada Togliatti 56 14 0 2 6 3 31 115 173 55
12 Template:Flagicon Metallurg Novokuznetsk 56 13 1 2 2 5 33 105 159 52

1 The KHL decided that as a result of the game between Vityaz Chekhov and Avangard Omsk on 9 January 2010 being abandoned due to a mass brawl which left neither team having the required number of players to continue, the game counted as a 5–0 defeat for both teams with no points being awarded.[6][7]

Divisional standings

Western Conference

DR CR Bobrov Division GP W OTW SOW SOL OTL L GF GA Pts
1 1 Template:Flagicon SKA Saint Petersburg 56 36 1 3 3 3 10 192 118 122
2 3 Template:Flagicon Dynamo Moscow 56 28 2 3 4 3 16 166 151 101
3 6 Template:Flagicon HC Spartak Moscow 56 24 4 4 4 0 20 178 168 92
4 7 Template:Flagicon CSKA Moscow 56 22 3 5 4 1 21 148 135 87
5 8 Template:Flagicon Dinamo Riga 56 23 1 3 4 3 22 174 175 84
6 11 Template:Flagicon Dinamo Minsk 56 17 1 5 2 0 31 139 164 65
DR CR Tarasov Division GP W OTW SOW SOL OTL L GF GA Pts
1 2 Template:Flagicon HC MVD 56 30 1 0 6 4 15 160 135 102
2 4 Template:Flagicon Atlant Moscow Oblast 56 24 4 9 1 2 16 173 137 101
3 5 Template:Flagicon Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 56 26 3 2 4 4 17 163 132 96
4 3 Template:Flagicon Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod 56 22 1 1 1 4 27 154 163 75
5 3 Template:Flagicon Severstal Cherepovets 56 16 2 7 6 2 23 151 162 74
6 12 Template:Flagicon Vityaz Chekhov 56 13 3 2 2 3 33 142 216 54

Eastern Conference

DR CR Kharlamov Division GP W OTW SOW SOL OTL L GF GA Pts
1 2 Template:Flagicon Metallurg Magnitogorsk 56 34 2 4 1 0 15 167 111 115
2 3 Template:Flagicon Ak Bars Kazan 56 25 4 4 3 2 18 159 128 96
3 4 Template:Flagicon Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 56 27 3 1 4 0 21 176 166 93
4 7 Template:Flagicon Traktor Chelyabinsk 56 18 0 3 2 2 31 137 192 64
5 8 Template:Flagicon Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg 56 14 2 6 2 4 28 127 159 64
6 11 Template:Flagicon Lada Togliatti 56 14 0 2 6 3 31 115 173 55
DR CR Chernyshev Division GP W OTW SOW SOL OTL L GF GA Pts
1 1 Template:Flagicon Salavat Yulaev Ufa 56 37 4 3 3 1 8 215 116 129
2 5 Template:Flagicon Avangard Omsk 56 24 2 2 6 4 18 152 128 90
3 6 Template:Flagicon Barys Astana 56 20 5 1 6 1 23 169 173 79
4 9 Template:Flagicon Sibir Novosibirsk 56 15 2 5 3 1 30 147 190 63
5 10 Template:Flagicon Amur Khabarovsk 56 12 3 6 4 2 29 129 187 60
6 12 Template:Flagicon Metallurg Novokuznetsk 56 13 1 2 2 5 33 105 159 52

League leaders

Source: khl.ru[11][12]

Goals Template:Flagicon Marcel Hossa (Riga) 35
Assists Template:Flagicon Alexei Yashin (SKA) 46
Points Template:Flagicon Sergei Mozyakin (Atlant)
 66
Shots on goal Template:Flagicon Marcel Hossa (Riga) 216
Plus–minus Template:Flagicon Patrick Thoresen (Ufa) +45
Penalty minutes Template:Flagicon Darcy Verot (Chekhov) 374
Wins (Goaltenders) Template:Flagicon Robert Esche (SKA) 29
Goals against average Template:Flagicon Petri Vehanen (Kazan) 1.73
Save percentage Template:Flagicon Petri Vehanen (Kazan) 93.5
Shutouts Template:Flagicon Vasily Koshechkin (Magnitogorsk) 8

Goaltenders: minimum 20 games played

Scoring leaders

Source: khl.ru[13]

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/– = P Plus–minus; PIM = Penalty minutes

Player Team GP G A Pts +/– PIM
Template:Flagicon Script error: No such module "Sort". Atlant Moscow Oblast 56 27 39 66 +24 44
Template:Flagicon Script error: No such module "Sort". SKA Saint Petersburg 56 27 38 65 +28 87
Template:Flagicon Script error: No such module "Sort". SKA Saint Petersburg 56 18 46 64 +21 38
Template:Flagicon Script error: No such module "Sort". Salavat Yulaev Ufa 54 24 39 63 +44 62
Template:Flagicon Script error: No such module "Sort". Dynamo Moscow 56 26 34 60 +10 36
Template:Flagicon Script error: No such module "Sort". Salavat Yulaev Ufa 56 24 33 57 +45 71
Template:Flagicon Script error: No such module "Sort". Dinamo Riga 56 35 19 54 –3 44
Template:Flagicon Script error: No such module "Sort". Dynamo Moscow 54 19 35 54 +7 115
Template:Flagicon Script error: No such module "Sort". Spartak Moscow 56 18 36 54 –4 18
Template:Flagicon Script error: No such module "Sort". Salavat Yulaev Ufa 47 17 36 53 +24 83

Leading goaltenders

Source: khl.ru[14]

GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; SOL = Shootout losses; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average

Player Team GP Min W L SOL GA SO SV% GAA
Template:Flagicon Petri Vehanen Ak Bars Kazan 25 1528:58 15 5 5 44 3 .935 1.73
Template:Flagicon Alexander Yeremenko Salavat Yulaev Ufa 32 1769:55 24 5 0 52 2 .931 1.76
Template:Flagicon Ilya Proskuryakov Metallurg Magnitogorsk 32 1809:31 19 8 4 58 4 .927 1.92
Template:Flagicon Vasily Koshechkin Metallurg Magnitogorsk 49 2840:43 25 16 8 93 8 .933 1.96
Template:Flagicon Michael Garnett HC MVD 44 2561:54 24 15 4 88 5 .917 2.06

Playoffs

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The Gagarin Cup

The eight best teams of each conference qualified for the playoffs. The first three rounds are played within the conferences, then the two winners will play in the Gagarin Cup final. The playoffs started on 10 March 2010 and ended on 27 April with the seventh game of the Gagarin Cup final.[1] Remarkably, each of all the fifteen play-off series was won by the team which won the first game in the series.

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Playoff leaders

Source: khl.ru[15][16]

Goals Template:Flagicon Alexei Ugarov (Balashikha) 9
Assists Template:Flagicon Alexander Radulov (Ufa)
Template:Flagicon Alexei Tsvetkov (Balashikha)
 11
Points Template:Flagicon Alexander Radulov (Ufa)
 19
Shots on goal Template:Flagicon Martin Štrbák (Balashikha) 63
Plus–minus Template:Flagicon Josef Vašíček (Yarsolavl)
 +15
Penalty minutes Template:Flagicon Dmitri Kalinin (Ufa) 58
Wins (Goaltenders) Template:Flagicon Petri Vehanen (Kazan)
 15
Goals against average Template:Flagicon Ivan Kasutin (Nizhnekamsk)
 1.36
Save percentage Template:Flagicon Ivan Kasutin (Nizhnekamsk)
 95.5
Shutouts Template:Flagicon Ivan Kasutin (Nizhnekamsk)
Template:Flagicon Petri Vehanen (Kazan)
Template:Flagicon Dimitri Kotschnew (Moscow)
 2

Goaltenders: minimum 5 games played

Scoring leaders

Source: khl.ru[17]

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/– = P Plus–minus; PIM = Penalty minutes

Player Team GP G A Pts +/– PIM
Template:Flagicon Alexander Radulov Salavat Yulaev Ufa 16 8 11 19 +7 10
Template:Flagicon Niko Kapanen Ak Bars Kazan 22 8 9 17 +3 6
Template:Flagicon Alexei Tsvetkov HC MVD 22 5 11 16 +6 14
Template:Flagicon Alexander Galimov Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 16 8 6 14 +4 33
Template:Flagicon Patrick Thoresen Salavat Yulaev Ufa 15 5 9 14 +3 37

Leading goaltenders

Source: khl.ru[18]

GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average

Player Team GP Min W L GA SO SV% GAA
Template:Flagicon Ivan Kasutin Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 9 528:58 5 4 12 2 .954 1.36
Template:Flagicon Petri Vehanen Ak Bars Kazan 22 1388:40 15 7 37 2 .937 1.60
Template:Flagicon Alexander Eremenko Salavat Yulaev Ufa 12 725:34 8 4 52 1 .934 1.65
Template:Flagicon Georgi Gelashvili Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 17 1050:13 10 6 33 1 .933 1.89
Template:Flagicon Edgars Masaļskis Dinamo Riga 6 373:30 3 2 12 1 .934 1.93

Final standings

Rank Team
1 Template:Flagicon Ak Bars Kazan
2 Template:Flagicon HC MVD
3 Template:Flagicon Salavat Yulaev Ufa
4 Template:Flagicon Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
5 Template:Flagicon Metallurg Magnitogorsk
6 Template:Flagicon Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk
7 Template:Flagicon Spartak Moscow
8 Template:Flagicon Dinamo Riga
9 Template:Flagicon SKA Saint Petersburg
10 Template:Flagicon Dynamo Moscow
11 Template:Flagicon Atlant Mytishchi
12 Template:Flagicon Avangard Omsk
13 Template:Flagicon CSKA Moscow
14 Template:Flagicon Barys Astana
15 Template:Flagicon Traktor Chelyabinsk
16 Template:Flagicon Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
17 Template:Flagicon Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
18 Template:Flagicon Severstal Cherepovets
19 Template:Flagicon Dinamo Minsk
20 Template:Flagicon Sibir Novosibirsk
21 Template:Flagicon Amur Khabarovsk
22 Template:Flagicon Lada Togliatti
23 Template:Flagicon Vityaz Chekhov
24 Template:Flagicon Metallurg Novokuznetsk

Awards

Players of the Month

Best KHL players of each month.

Month Goaltender Defense Forward Rookie
September[19] Template:Flagicon Ilya Proskuryakov (Magnitogorsk) Template:Flagicon Konstantin Korneyev (CSKA) Template:Flagicon Kirill Knyazev (Spartak) Template:Flagicon Sergei Belokon (Vityaz)
October[20] Template:Flagicon Karri Rämö (Omsk) Template:Flagicon Dmitri Kalinin (Ufa) Template:Flagicon Mattias Weinhandl (Dynamo M) Template:Flagicon Linus Omark (Dynamo M)
November[21] Template:Flagicon Georgi Gelashvili (Yaroslavl) Template:Flagicon Sergei Zubov (SKA) Template:Flagicon Maxim Sushinsky (SKA) Template:Flagicon Nikita Filatov (CSKA)
December[22] Template:Flagicon Vitaliy Yeremeyev (Dynamo M) Template:Flagicon Dmitri Bykov (Atlant) Template:Flagicon Sergei Mozyakin (Atlant) Template:Flagicon Nikolai Belov (Neftekhimik)
January[23] Template:Flagicon Robert Esche (SKA) Template:Flagicon Sergei Zubov (SKA) Template:Flagicon Geoff Platt (Minsk) Template:Flagicon Alexander Komaristy (Chekhov)
February Olympic break
March[24] Template:Flagicon Ivan Kasutin (Neftekhimik) Template:Flagicon Alexander Guskov (Yaroslavl) Template:Flagicon Alexander Radulov (Ufa) Template:Flagicon Konstantin Plaksin (Traktor)
April[25] Template:Flagicon Petri Vehanen (Kazan) Template:Flagicon Ilya Nikulin (Kazan) Template:Flagicon Alexei Tsvetkov (HC MVD) not awarded

KHL Awards

On 25 May 2010, the KHL held their annual award ceremony. A total of 20 different awards were handed out to teams, players, officials and media.[26] The most important trophies are listed in the table below.

Golden Stick Award (regular season MVP) Template:Flagicon Alexander Radulov (Ufa)
Play-off Master Award (play-off MVP) Template:Flagicon Ilya Nikulin (Kazan)
Alexei Cherepanov Award (best rookie) Template:Flagicon Anatoli Nikontsev (Yekaterinburg)

The league also awarded six "Golden Helmets" for the members of the all-star team:

Forwards Template:Flagicon Alexander Radulov
Salavat Yulaev Ufa 		Template:Flagicon Marcel Hossa
Dinamo Riga 		Template:Flagicon Sergei Mozyakin
Atlant Moscow Oblast
Defense Template:Flagicon Sergei Zubov
SKA St. Petersburg 		Template:Flagicon Dmitri Kalinin
Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Goalie Template:Flagicon Michael Garnett
HC MVD

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