The playoffs of the 2017-2018 season have begun in the KHL.
The 2017-2018 KHL season will be an anniversary season. For the tenth time the teams will compete for the main prize - the Gagarin Cup.
Recall that 16 best teams from Russia, Europe and China participate in the playoffs (or elimination competition). They are chosen among the winners of the games in the "Western" and "Eastern" conferences. 8 out of each top clubs advance to the playoffs of the tournament. Among each of the conferences, a quarter, semi and finalists are selected. For the Gagarin Cup, one best team from the "East" and "West" are fighting.
Participants of the KHL championship season 2017-2018
AT qualifying tournaments 27 teams played. The foreign representatives of the league were hockey clubs Belarus, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Finland, Slovakia and China.
KHL playoff schedule 2017-2018 season
The first matches of the 2017-2018 playoffs will be held on the third of March.
Who is SKA's opponent in the KHL playoffs 2017-2018
This year the St. Petersburg club SKA will play four matches with Severstal from Cherepovets. Battles on ice will take place on March 4, 5, 7 and 8 in " ice palace". Based on the results, additional days may be assigned.
The 2018 KHL Final is the climactic round of the playoffs of the Continental hockey league 2017 - 2018. Two best teams Western and Eastern Conference. The winner of the confrontation will receive the Gagarin Cup and a solid cash prize. Who will write their name in golden letters in the history of the league?! The title will go to one of the supergrands of the West, or will the East say a weighty word? We are gaining patience. The fate of the trophy will be determined in April!
Where and when will the KHL final 2017-2018 be held
The final series will take place in the second half of April 2017. No one will say the exact date of the culminating matches. It all depends on the duration of the 2017/18 KHL playoff rounds leading up to the final. The first stage of the playoffs - the quarterfinals - will begin on March 3, 2018.
The matches will take place on the hockey rinks of the participating clubs according to the system 2 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 1. The team with a higher seeding will play the first two games on its field. If the series drags on to seven games, he will be eligible to play the 5th and 7th meetings at home. The winner will be declared the team that will be able to excel 4 times.
Participants of the final series of the KHL 2017-2018
The finalists will be determined only in April. The future participants of the main round of KNL have yet to go through fire, water and copper pipes of the playoffs.
8 teams from each conference will participate in the elimination games, but only one of them will be honored to play in the final series. If you focus on the current standings, you can make a list of potential finalists.
West:
- CSKA;
- "Jokerite";
- "Locomotive";
- "Torpedo";
- "HC Sochi";
- "Dynamo (Moscow)";
- "Spartacus".
Cherepovets "Severstal" and Minsk "Dynamo" are also close to the cherished eight.
East:
- "AK Bars";
- "Vanguard";
- "Neftekhimik";
- "Motorist";
- "Metallurgist";
- "Tractor";
- "Salavat Yulaev";
- "Barys".
Khabarovsk "Amur" and Novosibirsk "Siberia" closely adjoin the TOP-8.
Winner of the KHL final 2017-2018
The current victor of the hockey championship is St. Petersburg SKA. The team of Ilya Kovalchuk in the final series confidently undressed Metallurg Magnitogorsk with a score of 4:1. But all this is history. Let's try to figure out who can really try on the hockey crown KHL season 2017/18.
West
In the western part of the KHL, two "army" monsters make the weather - SKA and CSKA. Petrograders have more preferable chances. SKA takes first place in the standings of the regular season. St. Petersburg "soldiers" are more sophisticated in the final battles. The team plays pragmatic hockey. It is not always interesting to watch the games of the St. Petersburg team, but Oleg Znarka's team gets their points regularly.
Also, experts highly appreciate the chances of the Finnish Jokerit, showing extraordinary agility in the regular season, and the Yaroslavl Lokomotiv.
East
As cutesy girls on VKontakte like to say, “everything is complicated.” The once formidable Metallurg is no longer a cake. But no one is in a hurry to take the vacant position of the leader of the KHL Eastern Conference. There is a tough nut to crack Avangard, Salavat Yulaev, who survived their best days, and the ambitious Ak Bars. So far, Ak Bars has the most real chances to play in the final. Kazan aspires to once again become the No. 1 hockey club in Russia. So far, they are the first in the standings of the East. But history remembers many examples when the leader of the regular championship failed in the playoffs ...
Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) - open international league, uniting clubs from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, China, Latvia and Finland. At the moment, 24 teams play in the league, which are divided into the Western and Eastern conferences and 4 geographical divisions.
During the regular season, teams play 62 games each, after which the playoffs begin. The top 8 teams from each conference qualify for the KHL playoffs. The league's main trophy is the Gagarin Cup, which is awarded to the winner of the playoffs.
The idea to create the Euro-Asian Hockey League originated in the mid-2000s. For the first time in public, Vyacheslav Fetisov voiced her in October 2005. The idea to create a league that would be independent of national federations and become commercially successful, many hockey functionaries from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan liked it.
As a result, the KHL was created on the basis of the Russian Hockey Superleague. The first championship took place in the 2008/2009 season, in which 21 out of 24 clubs were Russian. In the future, the league was replenished with teams from Ukraine, Slovakia, Finland, Croatia, but in the last few years, the leadership of the KHL, on the contrary, has been reducing the number of teams.
Features of KHL betting
Clear dominance of several clubs
Western Conference clubs have more financial resources than Eastern Conference clubs. First of all, CSKA and SKA stand out, which in last years vastly superior to others KHL clubs. St. Petersburg and Moscow "soldiers" have more balanced lineups, as a result of which bookmakers rate them as favorites in almost every match.
The home match factor
This factor is especially important in the playoffs, where the value of home games is highest value. According to statistics, it is the team that plays at home that wins more often. It should be noted that in regular season games KHL betting for home matches when playing with opponents from another region can bring significant gains, since long-distance flights do not always have a positive effect on the performance of hockey players.
Outsiders can beat the favorite
In the course of the regular season in KHL matches, surprises often occur. So, the underdog can easily beat the team that leads the conference. This happens especially often at the end of the season, when the leaders have already secured a place in the playoffs and are deprived of proper motivation.
How to choose a bet on the KHL
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The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) is an international hockey league uniting hockey clubs from eight European countries. The league was created on the basis of the Russian Hockey Superleague. The KHL has been successfully held and developed since 2008, with each season increasing the number of participants, the level of teams, the fan audience and international prestige. Each season the teams fight for the main trophy of the league - the Gagarin Cup, which is awarded to the league champion.
Teams in the KHL
In the debut season of 2008/2009, 24 clubs took part in the Continental Hockey League. Gradually, every year the number of participating teams increased, and at the moment 29 clubs from eight European countries (Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, China, Finland, Croatia, Slovakia, Latvia) play in the KHL. In the future, it is planned to expand the number of participants to 32 teams.
The structure of the season in the KHL
All teams in the Kontinental Hockey League are geographically divided into the Eastern Conference and the Western Conference. Each conference, in turn, is divided into two divisions: in the east - the Bobrov Division and the Tarasov Division, in the west - the Kharlamov Division and the Chernyshev Division.
| Eastern Conference1 | Western conference | ||
| Kharlamov Division | Chernyshev Division | Bobrov Division | Tarasov Division |
KHL regular season
The first phase of the KHL is a regular season, in which each team plays 4 matches with opponents from its own division, 2 matches with teams from another division of its conference, and one meeting with clubs from another conference. Also, each team holds four more meetings with rivals from its division, and the matches are compiled in order to maximize the intrigue in the championship. In total, during the Regular Season, the teams play 60 matches each, determining the winners of divisions and conferences, as well as forming pairs for the next stage of the season - the playoffs.
KHL playoffs
The top 8 teams from each conference continue to fight for the Gagarin Cup, playing a series of knockouts up to four wins. Each conference determines the best team by duels according to the playoff system (1/4 finals, 1/2 finals and finals), after which the two best teams in the league play final series also up to four victories, in which the Gagarin Cup is played.
KHL winners
For eight seasons in the Continental Hockey League, 5 teams became the owners of the Gagarin Cup. Two victories each have: Ak Bars (2009, 2010) Dynamo Moscow (2012, 2013), Metallurg Magnitogorsk (2014, 2016), and won once more: Salavat Yulaev (2011) and SKA ( 2015).