2014–15 Supreme Hockey League season

The 2014–2015 Supreme Hockey League season — was the 5th season of SHL Championship and began on September 8 in Karagandy with a match between the finalists of the previous season, Karaganda "Saryarka" and Tyumen "Rubin" with "Saryarka" winning the opening cup holder match. The winner of the regular championship ahead of schedule was also a club from Kazakhstan.

Clubs

In the season 2014/15 the participants of the SHL left three teams: "the Crystal" (Saratov), "Lada" (Togliatti) and "Titan" (Klin). But the participants of the SHL joined team "Bars".

The team of "Navy-Karelia" (Kondopoga) was renamed to "SKA-Karelia".

Team's roster

At any time in the main team may be no more than 27 players, regardless of playing position at the age of 17 years and older, 2 of them are hockey player at the age of 21 years.

Any SHL team have the right to include in the entry form of the team no more than 9 players of hockey club KHL having with KHL team overall organizational and/or financial structure and no more than 4 players for clubs who have signed with KHL team agreement on sports cooperation.

foreign players in one team must be no more than 4 field players . The foreign goalkeeper in Russian teams was prohibited. The foreign team must have not less than five players citizens of the state that represents this club in the SHL.

On any given match a team can have no more than 22 players: 20 players, including 2 goalkeepers and 2 field players aged 17–20 years.

Regular season

Format

In 2014/2015 season SHL took part 24 teams. For the 1-st teams play double-round tournament. Clubs are divided into six conditional fours on sporting and geographical basis, in which glean additional six matches (three games at "home" and "away"). Thus, in the first stage the teams will play 52 matches.

Standings

M	team	GP	V	VO	VB	LB	LО	L	G	±	S
1	Saryarka	52	32	2	4	0	2	12	178–108	+70	110
2	HC Izhstal	52	26	2	4	4	1	15	142–118	+24	95
3	THK Tver	52	20	2	12	2	2	14	132–107	+25	92
4	Molot-Prikamye Perm	52	23	3	7	0	0	19	139–116	+23	89
5	HC Lipetsk	52	22	4	4	5	2	15	134–121	+13	89
6	HC Ryazan	52	24	3	3	2	2	18	132–122	+10	88
7	Buran Voronezh	52	23	1	4	5	0	19	129–129	0	84
8	Toros Neftekamsk	52	22	3	1	8	2	16	138–120	+18	84
9	Zauralie Kurgan	52	22	2	3	4	3	18	116–94	+22	83
10	Dizel Penza	52	21	3	2	4	6	16	118–114	+4	83
11	Rubin Tyumen	52	20	4	3	5	1	19	115–115	0	80
12	Yermak Angarsk	52	21	2	3	1	3	22	116–127	–11	77
13	Sputnik Nizhny Tagil	52	20	3	2	2	4	21	122–144	–22	76
14	HC Kuban	52	20	2	4	1	2	23	136–133	+3	75
15	Kazzinc-Torpedo	52	19	2	3	5	3	20	126–143	–17	75
16	Chelmet Chelyabinsk	52	20	2	2	5	1	22	112–127	–15	74
17	Dynamo Balashikha	52	17	3	5	3	1	23	141–146	–5	71
18	Yuzhny Ural Orsk	52	18	2	3	3	3	23	127–144	–17	70
19	Neftyanik Almetyevsk	52	18	0	4	4	4	22	140–140	0	70
20	Ariada Volzhsk	52	15	4	3	7	2	21	119–129	–10	68
21	SKA-Karelia	52	17	3	2	4	2	24	109–121	–12	67
22	Sokol Krasnoyarsk	52	17	0	4	6	2	23	109–130	–21	67
23	HC Sarov	52	13	0	5	7	1	26	109–130	–21	57
24	JHC Bars	52	11	1	3	3	4	30	109–170	–61	48

Player's stats

Defenders

In the nomination "the Best defender in the SHL" by a vote of head coaches of clubs of the SHL defined contenders for the title of best players of the 2014/15 season. This table shows a summary of the regular season and the playoffs.

№	player	Club	Аmplua	GP	G	A	S	+/-	PIM
1	Aleksander Ugolnikov	Saryarka	D	65	8	23	31	+34	50
2	Ilya Antonovsky	Saryarka	D	64	11	17	28	+22	66
3	Nikolay Zhilin	Izhstal	D	48	9	10	19	+9	69

Forwards

№	player	club	amplua	M	G	A	S	+/–	Pt
1	Denis Fakhrutdinov	THK Tver	F	52	13	32	45	+20	50
2	Oleg Lomako	Saryarka	F	48	22	19	41	+24	22
3	Aslan Raisov	HC Kuban	F	50	17	20	37	–5	14

Goalkeepers

№	player	club	M	V	L	КN	%	0	T
1	Gleb Evdokimov	Zauralie Kurgan	33	15	10	94.2	1.54	4	1903:58
2	Vladimir Kovac	Saryarka	31	21	5	92.9	1.59	4	1733:08
3	Sergei Khoroshun	THK Tver	39	17	9	93.8	1.78	3	2295:42

Playoffs

	First round					Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Finals
	1	Saryarka	4
	16	Chelmet	2
						1	Saryarka	4
						12	Ermak	3
	3	THK Tver	4
	14	HC Kuban	3
											1	Saryarka	0
										8	Toros	4
	5	HC Lipetsk	1
	12	Ermak	4
						3	THK Tver	4
						10	Dizel	3
	7	Buran	2
	10	Dizel	4
																8	Toros	4
		(Pairings are re-seeded after the first and second rounds.)
															2	Izhstal	2
	2	HC Izhstal	4
	15	Kazzinc-Torpedo	0
						2	Izhstal	4
						11	Rubin Tyumen	2
	4	Molot-Prikamye Perm	4
	13	Sputnik Nizhny Tagil	3
											2	Izhstal	4
										3	THK Tver	0
	6	HC Ryazan	1
	11	Rubin Tyumen	4
						4	Molot-Prikamye	1
						8	Toros	4
	8	Toros	4
	9	Zauralie Kurgan	2