The New York Rangers have decided to send Vitali Kravtsov back to the KHL, at least for now.

Tolpar won both games, first 4–2, second 5–2 and clinched third place of the first season of the MHL. Meanwhile, the teams that joined the league were Sputnik Almetyevsk (the junior team of Neftyanik Almetyevsk), expansion club Taifun from Ussuriysk (the junior team of Admiral Vladivostok), Altay Oskemen from Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan (the junior team of Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk) as well as Krylya Sovetov who were returning to the league after being inactive for five years.

Goaltender Nikita Bespalov didn’t have his name called at the NHL draft, he’s never played a game on an international stage and for much of his career he’s been a minor league or backup netminder. 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).

In all, Kravtsov played just 11 games for Traktor (scoring three points) while suiting up 39 times for the Wolf Pack. Splitting 50 games between two different leagues (and continents), while scoring only 18 points certainly isn’t the usual path for a top prospect with as much skill as Kravtsov, but that’s exactly what happened in this case. It comprises member clubs based in Belarus (1), China (1), Finland (1), Latvia (1), Kazakhstan (1), and Russia (18) for a total of 23. It is to be expected that those teams would rather play in the new HPL, rather than in the VHL. KHL ble opprettet i 2008 som en erstatning for den tidligere russiske superligaen. Please login to leave a reply.

The 2012 Challenge Cup took place in Magnitogorsk on 11 February 2012. Therefore, a list of players born in Ukraine gives case-by-case details for some of those players.

Dressed Ben Kuzma down a bit after Ben’s slightly inaccurate comment about going down the bench patting everybody on the back when he only went down to Markie and gave him a pep talk. Jokerit Helsinki expressed interest towards the new league as well, although it’s not clear yet if they intend to form a new team there.

[21], 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. The MHL opened its doors on September 4, 2009 in Moscow, when the first ever MHL game was played between MHC Dynamo (then the junior team of Dynamo Moscow) and CSKA-Red Army (the junior team of CSKA Moscow) with Dynamo picking up the historic 6–2 victory.

KHL players are represented by the Kontinental Hockey League Players' Trade Union. As in 2010, the Red Stars (Russian: Красные Звезды, Krasnye Zvezdy), a team made of players who play in the MHL, toured North America. With two leagues, and thus presumably more teams involved, the talent will be diluted and the competition may be less fierce, at least in the first couple of seasons. [25], 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. ... Minor Hockey League: Official website: KHL.ru (English) For the sixth season, the league went through a number of changes, with 2 teams joining the league and 2 teams leaving, each for different reasons.