| 2015–16 KHL season | |
| League: | Kontinental Hockey League |
| Sport: | Ice hockey |
| Duration: | 24 August 2015 – 19 April 2016 |
| No Of Games: | 60 |
| No Of Teams: | 28 |
| Season: | Regular season |
| Season Champs: |  CSKA Moscow |
| Season Champ Name: | Continental Cup winner |
| Top Scorer: | Sergei Mozyakin |
| Playoffs: | Playoffs |
| Conf1: | Western |
| Conf1 Champ: | CSKA Moscow |
| Conf1 Runner-Up: | SKA Saint Petersburg |
| Conf2: | Eastern |
| Conf2 Champ: | Metallurg Magnitogorsk |
| Conf2 Runner-Up: | Salavat Yulaev Ufa |
| Finals: | Gagarin Cup |
| Finals Champ: | Metallurg Magnitogorsk |
| Finals Runner-Up: | CSKA Moscow |
| Finals Mvp Link: |
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| Seasonslist: | KHL#Seasons overview |
| Seasonslistnames: | KHL |
| Prevseason Link: | 2014–15 KHL season |
| Prevseason Year: | 2014–15 |
| Nextseason Link: | 2016–17 KHL season |
| Nextseason Year: | 2016–17 |
The 2015–16 KHL season was the eighth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The season started on 24 August 2015 with the Opening Cup between defending champions SKA Saint Petersburg and last year's Continental Cup winners CSKA Moscow, replacing Ak Bars Kazan, the previous season's Gagarin Cup finalists.[1]
Spartak Moscow returned to the league prior to this season.[2] [3] It was also announced by KHL President Dmitry Chernyshenko that Atlant Moscow Oblast would not participate in the league this season due to financial problems.[4]
In this season, each team played every other team once at home and once on the road, giving a total of 54 games (27 at home, 27 on the road), plus 6 additional games (3 at home, 3 on the road) played by each team against rival clubs from its own conference. Thus, each team played a total of 60 games in the regular season.[5]
How the teams are divided into divisions and conferences is shown in the table below.[6] [7]
| Western Conference | Eastern Conference |
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See main article: 2016 Gagarin Cup playoffs.
The playoffs started on 21 February 2016 with the top eight teams from each of the conferences, and ended with the last game of the Gagarin Cup final on 19 April 2016.[8]
As of 18 February 2016
| Player | Team | GP | G | A | Pts | +/– | PIM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metallurg Magnitogorsk | 57 | 32 | 35 | 67 | +11 | 0 | ||
| CSKA Moscow | 53 | 23 | 42 | 65 | +28 | 73 | ||
| Barys Astana | 60 | 20 | 41 | 61 | +16 | 48 | ||
| SKA Saint Petersburg | 54 | 17 | 43 | 60 | −8 | 63 | ||
| Salavat Yulaev Ufa | 60 | 18 | 39 | 57 | +12 | 40 | ||
| Dinamo Minsk | 54 | 26 | 29 | 55 | −10 | 54 | ||
| Metallurg Magnitogorsk | 60 | 22 | 32 | 54 | +9 | 26 | ||
| Barys Astana | 55 | 31 | 22 | 53 | +15 | 16 | ||
| Ak Bars Kazan | 59 | 17 | 36 | 53 | +6 | 26 | ||
| Metallurg Magnitogorsk | 58 | 20 | 32 | 52 | +7 | 61 |
Source: KHL
As of 18 February 2016
| Player | Team | GP | Min | W | L | SOP | GA | SO | SV% | GAA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 1638:53 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 29 | 10 | .953 | 1.06 | |||
| 34 | 1962:29 | 22 | 8 | 3 | 37 | 13 | .954 | 1.13 | |||
| 28 | 1669:11 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 42 | 7 | .938 | 1.51 | |||
| 20 | 1122:04 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 31 | 3 | .921 | 1.66 | |||
| 23 | 1392:08 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 41 | 2 | .936 | 1.77 |
Source: KHL
Best KHL players of each month.
| Month | Goaltender | Defense | Forward | Rookie | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September[9] | Alexei Murygin (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl) |  Mat Robinson (Dynamo Moscow) | Sergei Mozyakin (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) | Roman Manukhov (Metallurg Novokuznetsk) | |
| October[10] |  Alexander Salák (Sibir Novosibirsk) | Mikhail Pashnin (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl) | Nigel Dawes (Barys Astana) | Artyom Zub (Amur Khabarovsk) | |
| November[11] | Danny Taylor (Medveščak Zagreb) |  Staffan Kronwall (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl) | Anatoly Golyshev (Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg) | Alexander Polunin (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl) | |
| December[12] | Dominik Furch (Avangard Omsk) |  Kevin Dallman (Barys Astana) | Danis Zaripov (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) | Vladislav Gavrikov (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl) | |
| January[13] | Ilya Sorokin (CSKA Moscow) | Mat Robinson (Dynamo Moscow) | Vadim Shipachyov (SKA St. Petersburg) | Igor Ustinsky (Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg) | |
| February[14] | Alexander Yeryomenko (Dynamo Moscow) | Anton Belov (SKA St. Petersburg) |  Peter Regin (Jokerit) | Artur Lauta (Avangard Omsk) | |
| March[15] | Ilya Sorokin (CSKA Moscow) | Denis Denisov (CSKA Moscow) | Sergei Mozyakin (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) | Yuri Sergiyenko (Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod) | |
| April |
