2014–15 KHL season
The 2014–15 KHL season is the seventh season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The season started on 3 September with the Opening Cup between defending champions Metallurg Magnitogorsk and Dynamo Moscow, replacing Lev Praha, last year's runner up not participating this season.
Team changes
Prior to the season, the KHL added three more teams: Jokerit from Helsinki, Lada Togliatti and HC Sochi, an expansion team from Sochi.HC Donbass did not play in the league this season, due to Russian invasion of Ukraine which culminated in a devastating fire at their home arena. Donbass intended to rejoin KHL for the 2015–16 season, but ultimately joined the new Ukrainian Hockey Extra League. HC Lev Praha didn't participate in KHL this season either, because of financial problems. In addition, Spartak Moscow did not participate in the league this season, after missing the deadline for shoring up its finances.
Divisions and regular season format
New for this season, is that the teams primarily play games against teams in their own division, and secondarily against teams in their own conference, and finally against teams in the other conference. According to the new format each team will play a total of 60 games during the regular season as follows:- 24 games against the other teams in their division,
- 14 games, against the teams in the other division in their conference,
- 14 more against teams from the other conference,
- 8 games where four will be against teams in their own conference and four against opposition from the other conference. When determining the opponents and venues for these additional 8 games, the League consider practical things, including the geographical locations and the availability of the arenas.
| Western Conference | Eastern Conference |
| Bobrov Division | Tarasov Division | Kharlamov Division | Chernyshev Division |
 Jokerit |  Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod | Ak Bars Kazan | Admiral Vladivostok |
 Dinamo Minsk | CSKA Moscow | Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg | Amur Khabarovsk |
 Dinamo Riga | Dynamo Moscow | Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk | Avangard Omsk |
| Atlant Moscow Oblast | Lokomotiv Yaroslavl | Metallurg Magnitogorsk |  Barys Astana |
 Medveščak Zagreb | Severstal Cherepovets | Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk | Metallurg Novokuznetsk |
| SKA Saint Petersburg | HC Sochi | Lada Togliatti | Salavat Yulaev Ufa |
 Slovan Bratislava | Vityaz Podolsk | Traktor Chelyabinsk | Sibir Novosibirsk |
Regular season
The regular season began on 3 September 2014 with the Opening Cup between Metallurg Magnitogorsk and Dynamo Moscow. Metallurg won the game 6–1.Player statistics
Scoring leaders
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/– = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalty minutes| Player | Team | GP | G | A | Pts | +/– | PIM |
| Alexander Radulov | CSKA Moscow | 46 | 24 | 47 | 71 | +37 | 143 |
 Jan Kovář | Metallurg Magnitogorsk | 60 | 24 | 44 | 68 | +15 | 50 |
| Danis Zaripov | Metallurg Magnitogorsk | 60 | 24 | 40 | 64 | +13 | 40 |
 Stéphane Da Costa | CSKA Moscow | 46 | 30 | 32 | 62 | +26 | 12 |
| Artemy Panarin | SKA Saint Petersburg | 54 | 26 | 36 | 62 | +18 | 37 |
| Charles Linglet | Dinamo Minsk | 54 | 22 | 36 | 58 | –2 | 59 |
 Steve Moses | Jokerit | 60 | 36 | 21 | 57 | +11 | 20 |
 Matt Ellison | Dinamo Minsk | 58 | 24 | 33 | 57 | –2 | 38 |
| Nigel Dawes | Barys Astana | 60 | 32 | 24 | 56 | +18 | 48 |
| Denis Parshin | Avangard Omsk | 60 | 25 | 31 | 56 | +18 | 40 |
Leading goaltenders
GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; SOP = Shootouts played; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average| Player | Team | GP | Min | W | L | SOP | GA | SO | SV% | GAA |
| Kevin Lalande | CSKA Moscow | 23 | 1297:10 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 30 | 6 | .934 | 1.39 |
| Alexander Lazushin | Dynamo Moscow | 21 | 1156:59 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 28 | 5 | .946 | 1.45 |
 Anders Nilsson | Ak Bars Kazan | 38 | 2247:52 | 20 | 9 | 8 | 64 | 5 | .936 | 1.71 |
| Emil Garipov | Ak Bars Kazan | 23 | 1383:26 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 41 | 1 | .933 | 1.78 |
| Stanislav Galimov | CSKA Moscow | 35 | 2055:31 | 23 | 5 | 5 | 61 | 6 | .919 | 1.78 |
Russian Ice Hockey Championship
At the end of the regular season of the KHL Championship the following teams became medalists of the Russian Ice Hockey Championship:| Rank | Team |
| CSKA Moscow | |
| SKA Saint Petersburg | |
| Dynamo Moscow |
Playoffs
The playoffs started on February 27, 2015, with the top eight teams from each of the conferences and will end with the last game of the Gagarin Cup final.Final standings
| Rank | Team |
| 1 | SKA Saint Petersburg |
| 2 | Ak Bars Kazan |
| 3 | CSKA Moscow |
| 4 | Sibir Novosibirsk |
| 5 | Dynamo Moscow |
| 6 | Jokerit |
| 7 | Metallurg Magnitogorsk |
| 8 | Avangard Omsk |
| 9 | Dinamo Minsk |
| 10 | Lokomotiv Yaroslavl |
| 11 | Barys Astana |
| 12 | Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod |
| 13 | HC Sochi |
| 14 | Salavat Yulaev Ufa |
| 15 | Traktor Chelyabinsk |
| 16 | Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg |
| 17 | Atlant Moscow Oblast |
| 18 | Severstal Cherepovets |
| 19 | Admiral Vladivostok |
| 20 | Vityaz Podolsk |
| 21 | Dinamo Riga |
| 22 | Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk |
| 23 | Medveščak Zagreb |
| 24 | Lada Togliatti |
| 25 | Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk |
| 26 | Slovan Bratislava |
| 27 | Metallurg Novokuznetsk |
| 28 | Amur Khabarovsk |
Awards
Players of the Month
Best KHL players of each month.| Month | Goaltender | Defense | Forward | Rookie |
| September | Stanislav Galimov | Anton Belov | Sergei Shirokov | Vladislav Kamenev |
| October | Ivan Kasutin | Maxim Chudinov | Artemy Panarin | Ivan Nalimov |
| November | Mikko Koskinen | Georgi Misharin | Igor Grigorenko | Pavel Koledov |
| December | Michael Garnett | Nick Bailen | Dmitri Kugryshev | Damir Musin |
| January | Alexander Lazushin | Alexei Semenov | Mikhail Varnakov | Vyacheslav Leshchenko |
| February | Anders Nilsson | Deron Quint | Charles Linglet | Maxim Mamin |
| March | Anders Nilsson | Denis Denisov | Alexander Radulov | Kirill Semyonov |
| April | Mikko Koskinen | Maxim Chudinov | Evgenii Dadonov | Not awarded |
Milestones
- On September 13, 2014, the Metallurg Magnitogorsk forward Sergei Mozyakin recorded his 400th KHL regular season career point. He became the first player in league history to reach this milestone.
- On September 24, 2014, the Metallurg Magnitogorsk forward Danis Zaripov recorded his 300th KHL regular season career point. He became the third player in league history to reach this milestone.
- On October 5, 2014, Ak Bars Kazan coach Zinetula Bilyaletdinov coached his 800th career game in Russian championships.
- On October 6, 2014, Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod forward Wojtek Wolski set a new league record for the fastest hat-trick in the game against Sibir Novosibirsk scoring in 1 minute 46 seconds.
- On February 18, 2015, Jokerit forward Steve Moses scored his 36th goal against Atlant Moscow Oblast and broke the league record for the most goals scored during one season.