


List of NHL players signing KHL lockout contracts According to the special regulations, each KHL team was allowed to add up to 3 NHL players to their roster, among them at most one foreign player. The league set up rules for the NHL lockout which lasted 16 September 2012 to early January 2013. The regular season started on 4 September 2012 with the Lokomotiv Cup between the finalists of the previous season, Dynamo Moscow and Avangard Omsk and ended on 17 February 2013 after every team has played 52 matches. The first Cup of Hope was won by Dinamo Riga. The new tournament was intended to extend the season, and help maintain interest in hockey for fans and players in preparation for the 2014 Winter Olympics. Six teams from the Western Conference and four teams from the Eastern Conference who had not qualified for the playoffs competed in the tournament, whose prize includes the first overall pick in the next KHL Junior Draft. In January 2013, a new repechage tournament known as the Nadezhda Cup (Cup of Hope) was announced, which was held alongside the playoffs.
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The top 8 teams from each conference qualified for the play-offs, which are played as best-of-seven series in each round. This was a change from previous seasons, where all intra-division opponents were played more frequently. The regular season consisted of 52 games for each team - twice (home and away) against each other team in the league and two extra games against a selected "rival" opponent (typically a geographically close team). US$36.5 million), but each club can waive the cap for one player transferred directly from the NHL, if he is eligible to play for the Russian national team. The salary cap changed from a soft cap to a hard cap, set at 1.1 billion rubles (approx. This brought the total number of teams to 26, representing 7 countries. Also HC Donbass from Donetsk, Ukraine joined the league. Lev Poprad was disbanded, but a team of the same name, Lev Prague, was established in Prague, Czech Republic, while Slovan Bratislava joined the KHL and thus continues the league's presence in Slovakia. It's all absolutely surreal.After withdrawing from the previous season in the wake of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash that killed the team's entire active roster, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl returned to the KHL with new players.

In the meantime, two Youth Hockey League games between Belye Medvedi of Chelyabinsk and Magnitogorsk’s Stalnye Lisy, as well as the opening of the Traktor’s museum have had to be postponed. The results of the inspection will be announced Monday. However, they will be opening the Gagarin Cup playoffs at home in a week, and it remains to be seen whether or not they'll be able to do that. Chelyabinsk wraps up their regular-season with a road game on Sunday.
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The sporting facilities will undergo an inspection by experts to assess the readiness of the arena to return to full operational use.įor the time being, the facility shutdown hasn't affected any KHL games. The emergency services have confirmed that the walls of the Arena Traktor were among those structures to suffer damage, and therefore large-scale events at the stadium have been postponed.

The meteor shower which struck Chelyabinsk and its environs has also caused some disruption to the hockey season schedule.
