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Kontinental Hockey League

Formerly	Russian Superleague (RSL)
Sport	Ice hockey
Founded	2008; 16 years ago (2008)
President	Alexei Morozov
Motto	Хоккей – наша игра! (Hockey is our game!) Хакей – наша гульня! Хоккей – біздің ойын! 冰球，就是我们的生活！
No. of teams	23
Country	Russia (20 teams) Belarus (1 team) Kazakhstan (1 team) China (1 team)
Most recent champion(s)	Metallurg Magnitogorsk (3rd title)
Most titles	HC CSKA Moscow Ak Bars Kazan Metallurg Magnitogorsk (3 titles each)
TV partner(s)	KHL TV, KHL TV Prime (Russia (as part of the NTV Plus package), Russia and international through KHL's website) Match TV (Russia) Belarus 5 (Belarus) Qazsport (Kazakhstan) CCTV-5+ (China)
Related competitions	Supreme Hockey League (VHL) Junior Hockey League (MHL)

The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL; Russian: Континентальная хоккейная лига (КХЛ), romanized: Kontinental'naya khokkeynaya liga) is an international professional ice hockey league founded in 2008. It comprises member clubs based in Russia (20), Belarus (1), Kazakhstan (1) and China (1) for a total of 23 clubs.

It was considered in 2015 to be the strongest professional ice hockey league in Europe and Asia, and tied for the second-strongest in the world with the American Hockey League behind North America's National Hockey League. The KHL had in 2017 the highest total attendance in Europe with 15.32 million spectators in the regular season and third-highest average attendance in Europe with 26,121 spectators per game in the regular season. The Gagarin Cup is awarded annually to the league's playoff champion at the end of each season. The title of Champion of Russia is given to the highest-ranked Russian team.

History

History

Ak Bars Kazan after winning the Gagarin Cup in 2009

The league formed from the Russian Superleague (RSL) and the champion of the 2007–08 season of the second division, with 24 teams: 21 from Russia and one each from Belarus, Latvia, and Kazakhstan. The teams were divided into four divisions, based on the performance in previous seasons.

The start of the fourth season was overshadowed by the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash on 7 September 2011 in which almost all members of the team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl lost their lives shortly after take-off for their flight to their season-opening game in Minsk. The Opening Cup game in Ufa, which was already underway when news of the disaster arrived, was suspended. In memory of the disaster, 7 September remained a day of mourning on which no KHL regular-season games took place, until after the 2017–18 KHL season. Journalist Vsevolod Kukushkin acted as the first press secretary for the league, after it evolved from the Superleague.

After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the National Hockey League suspended operation of its Memorandum of Understanding with the KHL. An NHL memo instructed NHL teams to "immediately cease all dealings [direct or indirect] with the KHL and KHL Clubs [and all representatives of both], as well as with player agents who are based in and continue to do business in Russia."

Team changes

Finnish team Jokerit joined the league in 2014 and left in 2022

2009–2014

In the 2009–10 season, Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg joined the KHL and Khimik Voskresensk was transferred to a lower league. In the 2010–11 season, Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk joined the league.

After several attempts by teams from Central Europe and Scandinavia to join the KHL, expansion beyond the borders of the former Soviet Union was finally realized in 2011. Lev Poprad, a newly founded team based in Poprad, Slovakia was admitted to the league. But after only one season, Lev was replaced by a team of the same name, Lev Praha, from Prague, Czech Republic, while Slovan Bratislava from Bratislava, Slovakia and Ukraine's Donbass from Donetsk joined the KHL as expansion teams for the 2012–13 season. Lev and Slovan qualified for the playoffs in their first KHL season.

In 2013, Medveščak from Zagreb, Croatia, previously playing in the Austrian Hockey League, and Russian expansion team Admiral Vladivostok joined the league, thus expanding the league even further. The league comprised 28 teams during the 2013–14 season, of which 21 were based in Russia and 7 located in the other countries.

In 2014, Finnish team Jokerit from Helsinki, Lada Togliatti (which previously played in the league), and newly created team HC Sochi joined the league. However, HC Donbass did not play in the league for the 2014–15 season, due to the Russian intervention in Ukraine, but had intended to rejoin later. Two other teams, Lev Praha and Spartak Moscow, also withdrew from the 2014–15 season due to financial problems.

2015–2019

Prior to the 2015–16 season, Atlant Moscow Oblast withdrew from the KHL due to financial issues, while Spartak Moscow returned after a one-year hiatus. The newly created Chinese club HC Kunlun Red Star from Beijing was admitted for the 2016–17 season.

Prior to the 2017–18 season, Medveščak Zagreb withdrew from the league to rejoin the Austrian league and Metallurg Novokuznetsk was sent down to the VHL.

After the end of the 2018–19 season, HC Slovan Bratislava withdrew from the KHL due to financial issues to rejoin the Slovak Tipsport Liga.

2020–present

On 24 February 2022, Finnish club Jokerit announced the team would withdraw from the league for the remainder of the season, including the playoffs, due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. On 27 February 2022, Latvian club Dinamo Riga announced that they too would withdraw for the same reasons. In the 2023/24 season HC Lada Togliatti rejoined the KHL.

Season structure

Original logo in Latin script and Cyrillic script until 2016

Since 2009, the league has been divided into East and West conferences. In the current season, both conferences include 12 teams divided into two divisions of 6 teams. Each team plays four games against each division opponent (20), three games against each non-division conference opponent (18), and two games against each non-conference opponent (24) for a total of 62 games.

The eight top-ranked teams in each conference receive playoff berths. Within each conference quarterfinals, semifinals and finals are played before the conference winners play against each other for the Gagarin Cup. The division winners are seeded first and second in their conference, based on their regular-season record. All playoff rounds are played as best-of-seven series. In each round, the top-seeded remaining team is paired with the lowest-seeded team, etc.

In the 2012–13 season, the Nadezhda Cup (Cup of Hope) was introduced, a consolation tournament for the teams who did not qualify for the playoffs. The winning team in the tournament wins the first overall pick in the KHL Junior Draft. The tournament is intended to extend the season and help maintain interest in hockey in the cities of these teams, and help players of national teams prepare for upcoming World Championships.

Teams

Overview of Kontinental Hockey League teams

Conference	Division	Team	City	Arena	Capacity	Founded	Joined	Head Coach	Captain
Western Conference	Bobrov	SKA Saint Petersburg	Saint Petersburg	SKA Arena	21,542	1946	2008	Roman Rotenberg	Anton Burdasov
		HC Sochi	Sochi, Krasnodar Krai	Bolshoy Ice Dome	12,035	2014		Dmitri Kokorev	Nikita Tochitsky
		Spartak Moscow	Moscow	Megasport Arena	12,616	1946	2008	Alexei Zhamnov	Sergei Shirokov
		Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod	Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast	Trade Union Sport Palace	5,500	1947	2008	Igor Larionov	Ziyat Paigin
		HC Vityaz	Balashikha, Moscow Oblast	Balashikha Arena	5,678	1996	2008	Dmitry Ryabykin	Fyodor Malykhin
	Tarasov	CSKA Moscow	Moscow	CSKA Arena	11,880	1946	2008	Sergei Fedorov	Nikita Nesterov
		Dinamo Minsk	Minsk	Minsk-Arena	15,086	2004	2008	Dmitri Kvartalnov	Dmitry Korobov
		Dynamo Moscow	Moscow	VTB Arena	10,721	1946	2008	Alexei Kudashov	Vadim Shipachyov
		Red Star Kunlun	Beijing (Mytishchi, Moscow Oblast)	Mytishchi Arena	7,114	2016		Viktors Ignatjevs	Brandon Yip
		Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Oblast	Arena 2000	9,070	1959	2008	Igor Nikitin	Alexei Marchenko
		Severstal Cherepovets	Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast	Ice Palace	5,583	1956	2008	Andrei Kozyrev	Yegor Morozov
Eastern Conference	Kharlamov	Ak Bars Kazan	Kazan, Tatarstan	Tatneft Arena	8,895	1956	2008	Zinetula Bilyaletdinov	Danis Zaripov
		Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg	Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast	KRK Uralets	5,545	2006	2009	Nikolai Zavarukhin	Nikita Tryamkin
		Lada Togliatti	Tolyatti, Samara Oblast	Lada Arena	6,122	1976	2023	Oleg Bratash	Mikhail Fisenko
		Metallurg Magnitogorsk	Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast	Arena Metallurg	7,704	1950	2008	Andrei Razin	Egor Yakovlev
		Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk	Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan	SCC Arena	5,500	1968	2008	Oleg Leontyev	Marat Khairullin
		Traktor Chelyabinsk	Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast	Traktor Ice Arena	7,500	1947	2008	Alexei Zavarukhin	Sergei Kalinin
	Chernyshev	Admiral Vladivostok	Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai	Fetisov Arena	5,678	2013		Leonīds Tambijevs	Dmitry Lugin
		Amur Khabarovsk	Khabarovsk, Khabarovsk Krai	Platinum Arena	7,100	1966	2008	Andrei Martemyanov	Michal Jordan
		Avangard Omsk	Omsk, Omsk Oblast	G-Drive Arena	12,011	1950	2008	Mikhail Kravets	Alexei Emelin
		Barys Astana	Astana	Barys Arena	11,040	1999	2008	Oleg Bolyakin	Roman Starchenko
		Salavat Yulaev Ufa	Ufa, Bashkortostan	Ufa Arena	8,522	1957	2008	Viktor Kozlov	Grigori Panin
		Sibir Novosibirsk	Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Oblast	Sibir-Arena	10,634	1962	2008	Sergei Krivokrasov	Yevgeni Chesalin

Overview of former Kontinental Hockey League teams

Name	City	Arena	Creation	Seasons
Khimik Voskressensk	Voskresensk, Moscow Oblast	Podmoskovie Ice Palace	2005	2008–2009
HC MVD	Balashikha	Balashikha Arena, Moscow Oblast	2004	2008–2010
Lev Poprad	Poprad	Poprad Ice Stadium	2010	2011–2012
HC Donbass	Donetsk	Druzhba Arena	2001	2012–2014
Lev Praha	Prague	Tipsport Arena	2012	2012–2014
Atlant Mytichtchi	Mytishchi, Moscow Oblast	Mytishchi Arena	1953	2008–2015
Metallurg Novokuznetsk	Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo Oblast	Kuznetsk Metallurgists Sports Palace	1949	2008–2017
Medveščak Zagreb	Zagreb	Dom Sportova	1961	2013–2017
Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk	Khanty-Mansiysk, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug	Arena Ugra	2006	2010–2018
Slovan Bratislava	Bratislava	Ondrej Nepela Arena	1921	2012–2019
Jokerit Helsinki	Helsinki	Hartwall Arena	1967	2014–2022
Dinamo Riga	Riga	Arena Riga	2008	2008–2022

Players

KHL match between CSKA Moscow and Dynamo Moscow at CSKA Arena, Moscow

KHL match between HC Lev Praha and Lokomotiv Yaroslavl at O2 Arena, Prague

Though now not as restrictive in maintaining an exclusively Russian composition of players and teams, Russian teams are still not allowed to sign more than five foreign players, while non-Russian teams must have at least five players from their respective countries. Foreign goaltenders on Russian teams are subject to a limit regarding their total seasonal ice time.

Prior to the inaugural season, several KHL teams signed several players from the NHL. A dispute between the two leagues over some of these signings was supposed to have been resolved by an agreement signed on 10 July 2008, whereby each league would honor the contracts of the other, but the signing of Alexander Radulov was made public one day after the agreement (though it was actually signed two days prior to the agreement taking effect), leading to an investigation by the International Ice Hockey Federation. On 4 October 2010, the conflict between the leagues was settled when both signed a new agreement to honor one another's contracts.

The league set up rules for the NHL lockout which lasted from 16 September 2012 to 12 January 2013. According to the special regulations, each KHL team was allowed to add up to three NHL players to its roster, with only one foreign player allowed. More than 40 NHL players, the majority of them Russians, played in the KHL during the lockout.

KHL players are represented by the Kontinental Hockey League Players' Trade Union.

After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, some non-Russian players elected to leave their teams, at the risk of forfeiting their salaries. The departing players included former NHL players Markus Granlund, Nick Shore, Geoff Platt, Kenny Agostino, Teemu Hartikainen, Philip Larsen, Sakari Manninen, Harri Säteri, Jyrki Jokipakka, Joakim Nordström, Lucas Wallmark, and Juho Olkinuora.

Nationalities of players

During the 2013–2014 season, players representing 16 nations played at least one game in the KHL. A player's nationality is for various reasons sometimes ambiguous. For the table presented below, the nationality "is determined based on the last country that the player represented in international competition. If a player has never played for a national team, usually the country of birth is chosen as the player nationality, unless there is strong evidence indicating otherwise". For players born in former Soviet republics, the situation is often more complex due to dual citizenship and naturalization. Therefore, a list of players born in Ukraine gives case-by-case details for some of those players. In some cases, players can change their nationality registration with the league on a year-by-year basis, and their nationality with the league may not match that of their International Ice Hockey Federation registration. Non-Russians represented about 30–35% of the KHL players and were mostly Central European, Nordic, and North American. In 2015–16, more than 950 players played in the league (see table below). Russian teams are limited to a maximum of 5 foreign players per squad.

Country (current number of teams)	Players active (2012–13)	Players active (2013–14)	Players active (2014–15)	Players active (2015–16)	Players active (2016–17)	Players active (2017–18)	Players active (2018–19)	Players active (2019–20)	Players active (2020–21)
Austria	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1
Belarus (1 team)	33	43	50	41	38	39	35	49	50
Belgium	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Canada	32	63	51	35	53	51	58	60	47
China (1 team)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	3	N/A	2	N/A	N/A
Croatia	1	4	4	4	6	2	1	N/A	N/A
Czech Republic	45	47	29	35	35	33	28	20	23
Denmark	N/A	1	2	4	3	5	6	4	3
Finland	40	37	51	48	51	42	45	46	54
France	N/A	N/A	1	1	2	N/A	3	1	1
Germany	1	2	2	1	N/A	N/A	N/A	2	3
Italy	N/A	N/A	N/A	2	2	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Israel	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1	N/A	N/A	N/A
Kazakhstan (1 team)	33	37	34	40	37	38	33	38	30
Latvia	35	34	29	34	33	33	29	35	34
Lithuania	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	2	1	1	N/A
Norway	3	3	3	1	N/A	1	N/A	N/A	N/A
Russia (19 teams)	569	599	613	657	678	661	596	586	659
Slovakia	53	44	32	28	28	24	24	6	6
Slovenia	N/A	2	4	4	4	4	3	N/A	N/A
South Korea	1	1	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Sweden	24	21	27	26	23	25	24	30	33
Switzerland	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1	N/A	N/A	1	N/A
Ukraine	12	17	2	2	4	2	N/A	N/A	N/A
United States	14	21	26	20	25	20	20	14	17
Total	896	976	960	983	1,027	983	908	893	961

Trophies and awards

Gagarin Cup

The winner of the playoff is awarded the Gagarin Cup. The highest placed Russian team is awarded the Championship of Russia. The team ranked first in the standings after the regular season, i.e. the winner of the regular season, is awarded the Continental Cup (Russian: Кубок Континента, Kubok Kontinenta). The winners of the conference finals are awarded the Eastern Conference Champion Cup (Russian: Кубок Победителю конференции Восток, Kubok Pobeditelyu konferentsii Vostok) and the Western Conference Champion Cup (Russian: Кубок Победителю конференции Запад, Kubok Pobeditelyu konferentsii Zapad).

The KHL presents annual awards to its most successful players. The KHL also awards the Opening Cup annually to the winner of the first game between the Gagarin Cup winner and the runner-up of the previous season. On 10 September 2011, three days after the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash, the KHL head office decided to honor the deceased in the 2011 Opening Cup. The League gives the Andrey Starovoytov Award annually to its referees of the year, also called the "Golden Whistle".

Seasons overview

Season	Teams	Gagarin Cup Winner	Gagarin Cup finalist	Final score	Continental Cup Winner	Top scorer
2008–09	24	Ak Bars Kazan	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	4–3	Salavat Yulaev Ufa (129 points)	Sergei Mozyakin (76 points: 34 G, 42 A)
2009–10	24	Ak Bars Kazan	HC MVD	4–3	Salavat Yulaev Ufa (129 points)	Sergei Mozyakin (66 points: 27 G, 39 A)
2010–11	23	Salavat Yulaev Ufa	Atlant Moscow Oblast	4–1	Avangard Omsk (118 points)	Alexander Radulov (80 points: 20 G, 60 A)
2011–12	23	Dynamo Moscow	Avangard Omsk	4–3	Traktor Chelyabinsk (114 points)	Alexander Radulov (63 points: 25 G, 38 A)
2012–13	26	Dynamo Moscow	Traktor Chelyabinsk	4–2	SKA Saint Petersburg (115 points)	Sergei Mozyakin (76 points: 35 G, 41 A)
2013–14	28	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	HC Lev Praha	4–3	Dynamo Moscow (115 points)	Sergei Mozyakin (73 points: 34 G, 39 A)
2014–15	28	SKA Saint Petersburg	Ak Bars Kazan	4–1	CSKA Moscow (139 points)	Alexander Radulov (71 points: 24 G, 47 A)
2015–16	28	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	CSKA Moscow	4–3	CSKA Moscow (127 points)	Sergei Mozyakin (67 points: 32 G, 35 A)
2016–17	29	SKA Saint Petersburg	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	4–1	CSKA Moscow (137 points)	Sergei Mozyakin (85 points: 48 G, 37 A)
2017–18	27	Ak Bars Kazan	CSKA Moscow	4–1	SKA Saint Petersburg (138 points)	Ilya Kovalchuk (63 points: 31 G, 32 A)
2018–19	25	CSKA Moscow	Avangard Omsk	4–0	CSKA Moscow (106 points)	Nikita Gusev (82 points: 17 G, 65 A)
2019–20	24	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			CSKA Moscow (94 points)	Vadim Shipachyov (65 points: 17 G, 48 A)
2020–21	23	Avangard Omsk	CSKA Moscow	4–2	CSKA Moscow (91 points)	Vadim Shipachyov (66 points; 20 G, 46 A)
2021–22	24	CSKA Moscow	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	4–3	Not determined	Vadim Shipachyov (67 points: 24 G, 43 A)
2022–23	22	CSKA Moscow	Ak Bars Kazan	4–3	SKA Saint Petersburg (105 points)	Dmitrij Jaškin (62 points: 40 G, 22 A)
2023-24	23	Metallurg Magnitogorsk	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	4–0	Dynamo Moscow (98 points)	Nikita Gusev (89 points: 23 G, 66 A)

Statistics

Single season records

Regular season

Record		Name	Season
Points	89	Nikita Gusev (Dynamo Mo.)	2023-24
Goals	48	Sergei Mozyakin (Magnitogorsk)	2016–17
Assists	66	Nikita Gusev (Dynamo Mo.)	2023-24
Shots on goal	253	Darren Dietz (Barys)	2018–19
Plus/minus	+48	Vladislav Gavrikov (SKA)	2018–19
Penalty minutes	374	Darcy Verot (Vityaz)	2009–10
Wins	38	Jakub Kovář (Avtomobilist)	2018–19
Shutouts	13	Alexei Murygin (Lokomotiv)	2015–16

Playoffs

Record		Name	Season
Points	33	Sergei Mozyakin (Magnitogorsk)	2013–14
Goals	15	Evgenii Dadonov (SKA)	2014–15
		Danis Zaripov (Magnitogorsk)	2016–17
Assists	20	Sergei Mozyakin (Magnitogorsk)	2013–14
		Chris Lee (Magnitogorsk)	2016–17
Shots on goal	82	Evgeny Kuznetsov (Chelyabinsk)	2012–13
Plus/minus	+16	Dominik Graňák (Dynamo Moscow)	2012–13
		Chris Lee (Magnitogorsk)	2016–17
Penalty minutes	69	Maxim Goncharov (Ufa)	2015–16
Wins	16	Alexander Yeryomenko (Dynamo Moscow)	2011–12, 2012–13
		Vasily Koshechkin (Magnitogorsk)	2013–14
		Mikko Koskinen (SKA)	2014–15
		Emil Garipov (Kazan)	2017–18
		Ilya Sorokin (CSKA Moscow)	2018–19
Shutouts	7	Lars Johansson (CSKA Moscow)	2020–21

Career records

Regular season

Record		Name	Years
Points	756	Sergei Mozyakin (Atlant, Magnitogorsk)	2008–2021
Goals	351	Sergei Mozyakin (Atlant, Magnitogorsk)	2008–2021
Assists	506	Vadim Shipachyov (Cherepovets, Saint Petersburg, Dynamo Moscow, Ak Bars Kazan)	2008–2022
Games played	745	Yevgeny Biryukov (Ufa, Magnitogorsk)	2008–2022
Plus/minus	+201	Vadim Shipachyov (Cherepovets, Saint Petersburg, Dynamo Moscow, Ak Bars Kazan)	2008–2022
Penalty minutes	1088	Evgeny Artyukhin (Saint Petersburg, Atlant, CSKA Moscow, Novosibirsk, Dynamo Moscow, Vityaz, Admiral, Neftekhimik)	2008–2022
Wins	281	Vasily Koshechkin (Togliatti, Magnitogorsk, Cherepovets)	2008–2022
Shutouts	73	Vasily Koshechkin (Togliatti, Magnitogorsk, Cherepovets)	2008–2022

Playoffs

Record		Name	Years
Points	172	Sergei Mozyakin (Atlant, Magnitogorsk)	2008–2021
Goals	68	Sergei Mozyakin (Atlant, Magnitogorsk)	2008–2021
Assists	104	Sergei Mozyakin (Atlant, Magnitogorsk)	2008–2021
Games played	161	Yevgeny Biryukov (Magnitogorsk, Ufa)	2008–2021
Plus/minus	+52	Danis Zaripov (Kazan, Magnitogorsk)	2008–2021
Penalty minutes	312	Grigori Panin (Kazan, CSKA Moscow, Ufa)	2008–2021
Wins	71	Vasily Koshechkin (Togliatti, Magnitogorsk, Cherepovets)	2008–2021
Shutouts	16	Ilya Sorokin (CSKA Moscow)	2015–2020

KHL's longest match

Match time	Date	Match	Home	Visitor	Result	Overtime goal scorer
142:09 mins	22 March 2018	5. Conference Semi-Finals	CSKA	Jokerit	1–2	Mika Niemi

All-time team records

Since its foundation in 2008, 35 different clubs have played in the KHL, with 32 having qualified for at least one postseason. Of the 24 founding teams, only Metallurg Novokuznetsk and Khimik Voskresensk had never qualified for the playoffs (both are no longer in the league). The table gives the final regular-season ranks for all teams, with the playoff performance encoded in colors. The teams are ordered by their best championship results.

Attendance statistics

Jokerit – SKA in Helsinki Ice Challenge 2017, with KHL-record attendance (17,645)

Total and average attendance by season, including play-offs:

All-Star Game

The Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game is an exhibition game held annually at the midway point (usually January or February) of the season, with the league's star players playing against each other. Previously played in a "Russian players versus the rest of the world" format, it is now run in a similar format to the NHL All-Star Game, where the four divisions face off in 3v3 matches

See also

In Spanish: Liga Continental de Hockey para niños

• Ice Hockey Federation of Russia
• List of Soviet and Russian ice hockey champions
• List of Soviet and Russian ice hockey scoring champions
• List of Soviet and Russian ice hockey goal scoring champions
• List of current KHL team rosters
• Beijing International Ice Hockey League
• Asia League Ice Hockey
• Supreme Hockey League