2016–17 KHL season
The 2016–17 KHL season was the ninth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The season started on 22 August 2016 and ended on 16 April 2017. SKA Saint Petersburg defeated Metallurg Magnitogorsk four games to one to win their second Gagarin Cup Championship in three seasons.
The KHL had the third highest average attendance in Europe, averaging 6,121 spectators, and the highest total attendance in Europe with 5.32 million spectators in the regular season.
Team changes
The Chinese club HC Kunlun Red Star from Beijing, China joined the league, to become its 29th team.The Russian Club Metallurg Novokuznetsk was relegated due to debt.
Divisions and regular season format
In this season, like in 2015–16 season, each team will play every other team once at home and once on the road, giving a total of 56 games, plus 4 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 |  HC Kunlun Red Star |
 Slovan Bratislava | Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod | Traktor Chelyabinsk | Metallurg Novokuznetsk |
| Spartak Moscow | Vityaz Podolsk | Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk | Salavat Yulaev Ufa |
| Sibir Novosibirsk |
League standings
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Gagarin Cup Playoffs
The playoffs started on 21 February 2017, with the top eight teams from each of the conferences and end with the last game of the Gagarin Cup final on 16 April 2017.Final standings
| Rank | Team |
| 1 | SKA Saint Petersburg |
| 2 | Metallurg Magnitogorsk |
| 3 | Lokomotiv Yaroslavl |
| 4 | Ak Bars Kazan |
| 5 | CSKA Moscow |
| 6 | Dynamo Moscow |
| 7 | Avangard Omsk |
| 8 | Barys Astana |
| 9 | Dinamo Minsk |
| 10 | Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod |
| 11 | Traktor Chelyabinsk |
| 12 | Vityaz |
| 13 | Jokerit |
| 14 | Salavat Yulaev Ufa |
| 15 | Admiral Vladivostok |
| 16 | HC Kunlun Red Star |
| 17 | Sochi |
| 18 | Slovan Bratislava |
| 19 | Sibir Novosibirsk |
| 20 | Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk |
| 21 | Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg |
| 22 | Amur Khabarovsk |
| 23 | Severstal Cherepovets |
| 24 |  Medveščak Zagreb |
| 25 | Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk |
| 26 | Spartak Moscow |
| 27 | Lada Togliatti |
| 28 |  Dinamo Riga |
| 29 | Metallurg Novokuznetsk |
Player statistics
Scoring leaders
As of 18 February 2017| Player | Team | GP | G | A | Pts | +/– | PIM |
| Sergei Mozyakin | Metallurg Magnitogorsk | 60 | 48 | 37 | 85 | +10 | 4 |
| Ilya Kovalchuk | SKA Saint Petersburg | 60 | 32 | 46 | 78 | +28 | 47 |
| Vadim Shipachyov | SKA Saint Petersburg | 50 | 26 | 50 | 76 | +33 | 22 |
| Nikita Gusev | SKA Saint Petersburg | 57 | 24 | 47 | 71 | +33 | 8 |
| Evgenii Dadonov | SKA Saint Petersburg | 53 | 30 | 36 | 66 | +33 | 39 |
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Leading goaltenders
As of 18 February 2017| Player | Team | GP | Min | W | L | SOP | GA | SO | SV% | GAA |
| Alexander Yeryomenko | Dynamo Moscow | 37 | 2092:48 | 24 | 4 | 5 | 45 | 9 | .950 | 1.29 |
 Pavel Francouz | Traktor Chelyabinsk | 30 | 1718:50 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 41 | 5 | .953 | 1.43 |
| Ilya Sorokin | CSKA Moscow | 39 | 2276:14 | 25 | 7 | 6 | 61 | 5 | .929 | 1.61 |
| Igor Shestyorkin | SKA Saint Petersburg | 39 | 2190:49 | 27 | 4 | 6 | 60 | 8 | .937 | 1.64 |
 Viktor Fasth | CSKA Moscow | 21 | 1169:05 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 33 | 4 | .929 | 1.69 |
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Awards
Players of the Month
Best KHL players of each month.| Month | Goaltender | Defense | Forward | Rookie |
| September | Ilya Proskuryakov |  Mat Robinson | Sergei Mozyakin | Vladimir Tkachev |
| October | Igor Shestyorkin | Chris Lee | Ilya Kovalchuk | Artyom Zagidulin |
| November | Vasily Demchenko | Zakhar Arzamastsev | Sergei Mozyakin | Dmitry Shulenin |
| December | Alexander Yeryomenko | Yegor Martynov | Richard Gynge | Vladimir Tkachev |
| January | Alexander Yeryomenko | Juuso Hietanen | Sergei Mozyakin | Artyom Ilenko |
| February | Alexander Yeryomenko | Jakub Nakládal | Sergei Mozyakin | Denis Alexeyev |
| March | Vasily Koshechkin | Vladislav Gavrikov | Danis Zaripov | Grigori Dronov |
| April |