2014–15 KHL season
| 2014–2015 KHL season | |
|---|---|
| League | Kontinental Hockey League |
| Sport | Ice hockey |
| Duration | 3 September 2014 – 19 April 2015 |
| Number of games | 60 |
| Number of teams | 28 |
| Regular season | |
| Continental Cup winner |
 CSKA Moscow
|
| Top scorer |
Alexander Radulov
|
| Playoffs | |
| Western champions |
SKA Saint Petersburg
|
| Western runners-up |  CSKA Moscow |
| Eastern champions |
Ak Bars Kazan
|
| Eastern runners-up | Sibir Novosibirsk |
| Gagarin Cup | |
| Champions |
SKA Saint Petersburg
|
| Runners-up | Ak Bars Kazan |
The 2014–15 KHL season is 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 not participating this season.
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.
HC Donbass did not play in the league this season, because of the political instability in Ukraine which culminated in a devastating fire at their home arena. Donbass intended to rejoin KHL for the 2015–16 season, but ultimately joined the new Ukrainian Hockey Extra League. HC Lev Praha didn't participate in KHL this season either, because of financial problems. In addition, Spartak Moscow did not participate in the league this season, after missing the deadline for shoring up its finances.
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.
The regular season began on 3 September 2014 with the Opening Cup between Metallurg Magnitogorsk and Dynamo Moscow. Metallurg won the game 6–1.
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