2017–18 KHL season
The 2017–18 KHL season was the tenth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The season started on 21 August 2017 and ended on 22 April 2018.
The league accommodated a 33 day Olympic break, to allow its players to participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics in February.
Team changes
The Croatian club Medveščak Zagreb relocated back to the Austrian Hockey League, and Russian club Metallurg Novokuznetsk was relegated to the Supreme Hockey League, to bring the total number of KHL teams to 27.March 2018 KHL announced that two teams going to drop out after this season and next season have 25 teams. Yugra and Lada Togliatti are the teams that will not continue in KHL.
Divisions and regular season format
In this season, like in the 2016–17 season, each team will play every other team once at home and once on the road, giving a total of 52 games, plus 4 additional games played by each team against rival clubs from its own conference. Thus, each team played a total of 56 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 |
| SKA Saint Petersburg | Lokomotiv Yaroslavl | Metallurg Magnitogorsk |  Barys Astana |
 Slovan Bratislava | Severstal Cherepovets | Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk |  HC Kunlun Red Star |
| Spartak Moscow | Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod | Traktor Chelyabinsk | Salavat Yulaev Ufa |
| Vityaz Podolsk | Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk | Sibir Novosibirsk |
League standings
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Gagarin Cup playoffs
Final standings
| Rank | Team |
| 1 | Ak Bars Kazan |
| 2 | CSKA Moscow |
| 3 | SKA Saint Petersburg |
| 4 | Traktor Chelyabinsk |
| 5 | Jokerit |
| 6 | Lokomotiv Yaroslavl |
| 7 | Metallurg Magnitogorsk |
| 8 | Salavat Yulaev Ufa |
| 9 | Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg |
| 10 | Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk |
| 11 | Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod |
| 12 | Avangard Omsk |
| 13 | Amur Khabarovsk |
| 14 | HC Sochi |
| 15 | Spartak Moscow |
| 16 | Severstal Cherepovets |
| 17 | Sibir Novosibirsk |
| 18 | Dynamo Moscow |
| 19 | Barys Astana |
| 20 | Dinamo Minsk |
| 21 | Vityaz Podolsk |
| 22 | Admiral Vladivostok |
| 23 | Kunlun Red Star |
| 24 | Slovan Bratislava |
| 25 | Lada Togliatti |
| 26 | Dinamo Riga |
| 27 | Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk |
Player statistics
Scoring leaders
As of 1 March 2018| Player | Team | GP | G | A | Pts | +/– | PIM |
| Ilya Kovalchuk | SKA Saint Petersburg | 53 | 31 | 32 | 63 | +12 | 26 |
| Nikita Gusev | SKA Saint Petersburg | 54 | 22 | 40 | 62 | +25 | 2 |
| Nigel Dawes | Barys Astana | 46 | 35 | 21 | 56 | +5 | 26 |
 Linus Omark | Salavat Yulaev Ufa | 55 | 16 | 39 | 55 | +6 | 60 |
 Linden Vey | Barys Astana | 50 | 17 | 35 | 52 | +1 | 64 |
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Leading goaltenders
As of 1 March 2018| Player | Team | GP | Min | W | L | SOP | GA | SO | SV% | GAA |
| Lars Johansson | CSKA Moscow | 21 | 1192:53 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 26 | 6 | .938 | 1.31 |
| Mikko Koskinen | SKA Saint Petersburg | 29 | 1718:12 | 22 | 4 | 1 | 45 | 5 | .937 | 1.57 |
| Ilya Sorokin | CSKA Moscow | 37 | 2182:35 | 25 | 8 | 4 | 58 | 8 | .931 | 1.59 |
| Igor Shestyorkin | SKA Saint Petersburg | 28 | 1592:34 | 20 | 4 | 4 | 45 | 7 | .933 | 1.70 |
 Ryan Zapolski | Jokerit | 39 | 2352:26 | 24 | 11 | 4 | 69 | 9 | .931 | 1.76 |
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Awards
Players of the Month
Best KHL players of each month.| Month | Goaltender | Defence | Forward | Rookie |
| September | Stanislav Galimov | Patrik Hersley | Nigel Dawes | Eeli Tolvanen |
| October | Ryan Zapolski | Nikita Tryamkin | Nigel Dawes | Eeli Tolvanen |
| November | Vasily Koshechkin | Nikita Tryamkin | Zach Boychuk | Alexander Petunin |
| December | Ilya Sorokin | Oleg Piganovich | Alexander Bergström | Alexander Petunin |
| January |  Pavel Francouz |  Philip Larsen | Alexander Khokhlachev | Rafael Bikmullin |
| March | Ilya Sorokin | Nick Bailen | Justin Azevedo | Vitali Kravtsov |
| April | Lars Johansson | Vasili Tokranov | Justin Azevedo | Vitali Kravtsov |