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See also: List of Gagarin Cup champions Sport Ice hockey Given for Playoff champion of the Kontinental Hockey League History First award 2008 Most recent Ak Bars Kazan Gagarin Cup on a Russian postage stamp. The Gagarin Cup (Russian: Кубок Гагарина, Kubok Gagarina ) is the trophy presented to the winner of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) playoffs, and is named after cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space. The Cup was supposedly named after Gagarin because the last possible game of the inaugural KHL season would take place on April 12, the anniversary date of Gagarin's flight. [1] After the end of the KHL's regular season, sixteen teams participate in the playoffs. The 1/8 and quarter-finals were a best-of-five series during the first season, and the semi-finals and finals were a best-of-seven series during the first season. Conferences were established for the second season. Conference quarter-finals are a best-of-five series while...

2015–16 KHL season League Kontinental Hockey League Sport Ice hockey Duration August 24, 2015 – April 19, 2016 Number of games 60 Number of teams 28 Regular season Continental Cup winner CSKA Moscow Top scorer Sergei Mozyakin Playoffs Western champions CSKA Moscow   Western runners-up SKA Saint Petersburg Eastern champions Metallurg Magnitogorsk   Eastern runners-up Salavat Yulaev Ufa Gagarin Cup Champions Metallurg Magnitogorsk   Runners-up CSKA Moscow KHL seasons ← 2014–15 2016–17 → 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. [1] [2] Contents 1 Team changes 2 Divisions and regular season format 3 League stand...