2015–16 KHL season
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.
Team changes
returned to the league prior to this season. 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.Divisions and regular season format
In this season, each team played every other team once at home and once on the road, giving a total of 54 games, plus 6 additional games played by each team against rival clubs from its own conference. Thus, each team played a total of 60 games in the regular season.How the teams are divided into divisions and conferences is shown in the table below.
| Western Conference | Eastern Conference |
| Bobrov Division | Tarasov Division | Kharlamov Division | Chernyshev Division |
 Dinamo Minsk |  CSKA Moscow | Ak Bars Kazan | Admiral Vladivostok |
 Dinamo Riga | Dynamo Moscow | Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg | Amur Khabarovsk |
 Jokerit | HC Sochi | Lada Togliatti | Avangard Omsk |
 Medveščak Zagreb | Lokomotiv Yaroslavl | Metallurg Magnitogorsk |  Barys Astana |
| SKA Saint Petersburg | Severstal Cherepovets | Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk | Metallurg Novokuznetsk |
 Slovan Bratislava | Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod | Traktor Chelyabinsk | Salavat Yulaev Ufa |
| Spartak Moscow | Vityaz Podolsk | Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk | Sibir Novosibirsk |
League standings
Western Conference">Western Conference (KHL)">Western Conference
Eastern Conference">Eastern Conference (KHL)">Eastern Conference
Gagarin Cup Playoffs
The playoffs started on February 21, 2016, with the top eight teams from each of the conferences and ended with the last game of the Gagarin Cup final on April 19, 2016.Final standings
| Rank | Team |
| 1 | Metallurg Magnitogorsk |
| 2 | CSKA Moscow |
| 3 | Salavat Yulaev Ufa |
| 4 | SKA Saint Petersburg |
| 5 | Avangard Omsk |
| 6 | Dynamo Moscow |
| 7 | Sibir Novosibirsk |
| 8 | Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod |
| 9 | Lokomotiv Yaroslavl |
| 10 | Jokerit |
| 11 | HC Sochi |
| 12 | Ak Bars Kazan |
| 13 | Admiral Vladivostok |
| 14 | Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg |
| 15 | Slovan Bratislava |
| 16 | Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk |
| 17 | Barys Astana |
| 18 | Dinamo Minsk |
| 19 | Traktor Chelyabinsk |
| 20 | Medveščak Zagreb |
| 21 | Spartak Moscow |
| 22 | Dinamo Riga |
| 23 | Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk |
| 24 | Vityaz Podolsk |
| 25 | Amur Khabarovsk |
| 26 | Lada Togliatti |
| 27 | Severstal Cherepovets |
| 28 | Metallurg Novokuznetsk |
Player statistics
Scoring leaders
As of 18 February 2016| Player | Team | GP | G | A | Pts | +/– | PIM |
| Sergei Mozyakin | Metallurg Magnitogorsk | 57 | 32 | 35 | 67 | +11 | 0 |
| Alexander Radulov | CSKA Moscow | 53 | 23 | 42 | 65 | +28 | 73 |
 Brandon Bochenski | Barys Astana | 60 | 20 | 41 | 61 | +16 | 48 |
| Vadim Shipachyov | SKA Saint Petersburg | 54 | 17 | 43 | 60 | −8 | 63 |
 Linus Omark | Salavat Yulaev Ufa | 60 | 18 | 39 | 57 | +12 | 40 |
 Matt Ellison | Dinamo Minsk | 54 | 26 | 29 | 55 | −10 | 54 |
| Danis Zaripov | Metallurg Magnitogorsk | 60 | 22 | 32 | 54 | +9 | 26 |
| Nigel Dawes | Barys Astana | 55 | 31 | 22 | 53 | +15 | 16 |
| Justin Azevedo | Ak Bars Kazan | 59 | 17 | 36 | 53 | +6 | 26 |
 Jan Kovář | Metallurg Magnitogorsk | 58 | 20 | 32 | 52 | +7 | 61 |
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Leading goaltenders
As of 18 February 2016| Player | Team | GP | Min | W | L | SOP | GA | SO | SV% | GAA |
| Ilya Sorokin | CSKA Moscow | 28 | 1638:53 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 29 | 10 | .953 | 1.06 |
| Alexei Murygin | Lokomotiv Yaroslavl | 34 | 1962:29 | 22 | 8 | 3 | 37 | 13 | .954 | 1.13 |
| Stanislav Galimov | CSKA/Ak Bars | 28 | 1669:11 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 42 | 7 | .938 | 1.51 |
| Viktor Fasth | CSKA Moscow | 20 | 1122:04 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 31 | 3 | .921 | 1.66 |
| Alexander Yeryomenko | Dynamo Moscow | 23 | 1392:08 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 41 | 2 | .936 | 1.77 |
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Awards
Players of the Month
Best KHL players of each month.| Month | Goaltender | Defense | Forward | Rookie |
| September | Alexei Murygin | Mat Robinson | Sergei Mozyakin | Roman Manukhov |
| October | Alexander Salák | Mikhail Pashnin | Nigel Dawes | Artyom Zub |
| November | Danny Taylor | Staffan Kronwall | Anatoly Golyshev | Alexander Polunin |
| December | Dominik Furch | Kevin Dallman | Danis Zaripov | Vladislav Gavrikov |
| January | Ilya Sorokin | Mat Robinson | Vadim Shipachyov | Igor Ustinsky |
| February | Alexander Yeryomenko | Anton Belov |  Peter Regin | Artur Lauta |
| March | Ilya Sorokin | Denis Denisov | Sergei Mozyakin | Yuri Sergiyenko |
| April |