| 2014–15 KHL season | |
| League: | Kontinental Hockey League |
| Sport: | Ice hockey |
| Duration: | 3 September 2014 – 19 April 2015 |
| No Of Games: | 60 |
| No Of Teams: | 28 |
| Season: | Regular season |
| Season Champs: |  CSKA Moscow |
| Season Champ Name: | Continental Cup winner |
| Top Scorer: | Alexander Radulov |
| Playoffs: | Playoffs |
| Playoffs Link: | 2015 Gagarin Cup playoffs |
| Conf1: | Western |
| Conf1 Champ: | SKA Saint Petersburg |
| Conf1 Runner-Up: | CSKA Moscow |
| Conf2: | Eastern |
| Conf2 Champ: | Ak Bars Kazan |
| Conf2 Runner-Up: | Sibir Novosibirsk |
| Finals: | Gagarin Cup |
| Finals Champ: | SKA Saint Petersburg |
| Finals Runner-Up: | Ak Bars Kazan |
| Finals Mvp Link: |
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| Seasonslist: | KHL#Seasons overview |
| Seasonslistnames: | KHL |
| Prevseason Link: | 2013–14 KHL season |
| Prevseason Year: | 2013–14 |
| Nextseason Link: | 2015–16 KHL season |
| Nextseason Year: | 2015–16 |
The 2014–15 KHL season was 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 who did not participate this season.[1]
Prior to the season, the KHL added three more teams: Jokerit from Helsinki, Lada Togliatti (an earlier member of the KHL that spent the last four seasons in the VHL) and HC Sochi, an expansion team from Sochi.[2]
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,[3] but ultimately joined the new Ukrainian Hockey Extra League. HC Lev Praha didn't participate in KHL this season either, because of financial problems.[4] In addition, Spartak Moscow did not participate in the league this season, after missing the deadline for shoring up its finances.[5]
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 (subject to final approval by the League management) each team will play a total of 60 games during the regular season as follows:
How the teams are divided into divisions and conferences are shown in the table below.
| Western Conference | Eastern Conference |
|---|
| Bobrov Division | Tarasov Division | Kharlamov Division | Chernyshev Division | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Jokerit | Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod | Ak Bars Kazan | Admiral Vladivostok | |
 Dinamo Minsk | 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 | Lada Togliatti | Salavat Yulaev Ufa | ||
 Slovan Bratislava | Vityaz Podolsk | Traktor Chelyabinsk | Sibir Novosibirsk |
The regular season began on 3 September 2014 with the Opening Cup between Metallurg Magnitogorsk and Dynamo Moscow. Metallurg won the game 6–1.[7]
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/– = P Plus–minus; PIM = Penalty minutes
| Player | Team | GP | G | A | Pts | +/– | PIM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSKA Moscow | 46 | 24 | 47 | 71 | +37 | 143 | ||
 Jan Kovář | Metallurg Magnitogorsk | 60 | 24 | 44 | 68 | +15 | 50 | |
| Metallurg Magnitogorsk | 60 | 24 | 40 | 64 | +13 | 40 | ||
| CSKA Moscow | 46 | 30 | 32 | 62 | +26 | 12 | ||
| SKA Saint Petersburg | 54 | 26 | 36 | 62 | +18 | 37 | ||
| Charles Linglet | Dinamo Minsk | 54 | 22 | 36 | 58 | –2 | 59 | |
| Jokerit | 60 | 36 | 21 | 57 | +11 | 20 | ||
| Dinamo Minsk | 58 | 24 | 33 | 57 | –2 | 38 | ||
 Nigel Dawes | Barys Astana | 60 | 32 | 24 | 56 | +18 | 48 | |
| Avangard Omsk | 60 | 25 | 31 | 56 | +18 | 40 |
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 1297:10 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 30 | 6 | .934 | 1.39 | |||
| 21 | 1156:59 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 28 | 5 | .946 | 1.45 | |||
| 38 | 2247:52 | 20 | 9 | 8 | 64 | 5 | .936 | 1.71 | |||
| 23 | 1383:26 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 41 | 1 | .933 | 1.78 | |||
| 35 | 2055:31 | 23 | 5 | 5 | 61 | 6 | .919 | 1.78 |
At the end of the regular season of the KHL Championship the following teams became medalists of the Russian Ice Hockey Championship:[8]
| Rank | Team | |
|---|---|---|
| CSKA Moscow | ||
| SKA Saint Petersburg | ||
| Dynamo Moscow |
See main article: 2015 Gagarin Cup 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.[9]
Best KHL players of each month.
| Month | Goaltender | Defense | Forward | Rookie | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September[10] | Stanislav Galimov (CSKA Moscow) | Anton Belov (SKA St. Petersburg) | Sergei Shirokov (Avangard Omsk) | Vladislav Kamenev (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) | |
| October[11] | Ivan Kasutin (Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod) | Maxim Chudinov (SKA St. Petersburg) | Artemy Panarin (SKA St. Petersburg) | Ivan Nalimov (Admiral Vladivostok) | |
| November[12] | Mikko Koskinen (Sibir Novosibirsk) | Georgi Misharin (CSKA Moscow) | Igor Grigorenko (CSKA Moscow) | Pavel Koledov (HC Sochi) | |
| December[13] | Michael Garnett (Traktor Chelyabinsk) |  Nick Bailen (Dinamo Minsk) | Dmitri Kugryshev (Sibir Novosibirsk) | Damir Musin (Ak Bars Kazan) | |
| January[14] | Alexander Lazushin (Dynamo Moscow) | Alexei Semenov (Vityaz Podolsk) | Mikhail Varnakov (Ak Bars Kazan) | Vyacheslav Leshchenko (Atlant Moscow Oblast) | |
| February[15] |  Anders Nilsson (Ak Bars Kazan) | Deron Quint (Traktor Chelyabinsk) | Charles Linglet (Dinamo Minsk) | Maxim Mamin (CSKA Moscow) | |
| March[16] | Anders Nilsson (Ak Bars Kazan) | Denis Denisov (CSKA Moscow) | Alexander Radulov (CSKA Moscow) | Kirill Semyonov (Avangard Omsk) | |
| April[17] | Mikko Koskinen (SKA St. Petersburg) | Maxim Chudinov (SKA St. Petersburg) | Evgenii Dadonov (SKA St. Petersburg) | Not awarded |