2016 Gagarin Cup playoffs


The 2016 Gagarin Cup playoffs of the Kontinental Hockey League began on February 21, 2016, with the top eight teams from each of the conferences, following the conclusion of the 2015–16 KHL regular season.

Playoff seeds

After the regular season, the standard 16 teams qualified for the playoffs. The Western Conference regular season winners and Continental Cup winners are CSKA Moscow with 127 points. Avangard Omsk are the Eastern Conference regular season winners with 106 points.

Draw

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.

Sibir vs Metallurg Game 4 controversy

In the fourth game of Sibir — Metallurg series, on 37th minute a scored goal was confirmed after the episode when a player of Sibir, while leaving the ice during substitution, made physical contact with a player of Metallurg when the substituting player of Sibir was already on the ice.
In the overtime the game-winning goal scored by Metallurg was confirmed after the episode when Metallurg started their substitution in violation of of of the Hockey Game Rules for 2015/2016, however the league's Officiating Department chose to explain the officials action by another clause of , leaving the violation of unexplained.
In response to an appeal filed by Sibir demanding the cancellation of the game result, according to Sibir GM Kirill Fastovsky, the KHL noted "there was no refereeing error".
According to the KHL, this demand of Sibir about the cancellation of the game result "could not be considered as an appeal" because "the appeal procedure was not strictly followed" by Sibir. The message from the KHL also referenced Clause 77 of the KHL Sports Regulations and noted the impossibility to accept for consideration appeals based on complaints to refereeing.

Player statistics

Scoring leaders

As of 19 Apr 2016
PlayerTeamGPGAPts+/–PIM
Sergei MozyakinMetallurg Magnitogorsk23111425+142
Jan KovářMetallurg Magnitogorsk2381523+1310
Vadim ShipachyovSKA Saint Petersburg157916–212
Linus OmarkSalavat Yulaev Ufa1951116+620
Alexander RadulovCSKA Moscow2041216+526
Alexander SeminMetallurg Magnitogorsk237815+920
Danis ZaripovMetallurg Magnitogorsk236915+1214
Nikita GusevSKA Saint Petersburg155914–20
Sami LepistöSalavat Yulaev Ufa196713+616
Nikita ZaitsevCSKA Moscow204913+710

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Leading goaltenders

As of 19 Apr 2016
PlayerTeamGPMinWLGASOSV%GAA
Ilya SorokinCSKA Moscow201270155283.9451.32
Mikko KoskinenSKA Saint Petersburg1598087245.9491.47
Vasily KoshechkinMetallurg Magnitogorsk191182145313.9481.57
Alexander YeryomenkoDynamo Moscow1064664193.9401.76
Alexander SalákSibir Novosibirsk952354162.9421.83

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