Each week, the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) salutes their Players of the Week. The top forward, defenseman, goaltender, and rookie are selected based on their statistics and performance, as determined by the KHL Statistics and Information Bureau. This week, the league recognizes: Forward of the Week Sergei Mozyakin, Metallurg Magnitogorsk The KHL’s leading scorer, Mozyakin ...
The KHL All-Star Game is slated for the weekend of January 12-13 in Chelyabinsk, home of the KHL’s Traktor. The starting lineups for the annual event were selected via fan balloting, and the results are in. Metallurg Magnitogorsk forward Evgeni Malkin received the most votes (40,569). He was followed by Pavel Datsyuk of CSKA Moscow (33,731), Alexander ...
The Kontinental Hockey League will welcome three new teams for the upcoming season. Slovan Bratislava from Slovakia, Donbass Donetsk in Ukraine and Lev Praha in Czech Republic will all join the KHL’s Western Conference. The league now features 26 teams from seven different countries. Slovan Bratislava Bratislava, Slovakia Founded in 1921, Slovan is by far ...
