International Hockey:The KHL

By: Rachel Broner

The KHL

• Kontinental Hockey League

• All throughout Europe and Asia

• Founded in 2008

• Season starts in September and the

playoffs ends in April

Website and Headquarters Location

• Website: http://en.khl.ru

• Location: 9, Strastnoi blvd., Moscow,

127006, Russian Federation

Commissioner

• Dmitry Chernyshenko

• Was the president of the Sochi 2014

Olympic Organizing Committee for

the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Past KHL Players

Pavel Datsyuk Evgeni Malkin

AlexanderOvechkin

Teams

• 28 teams in total

• Russia, Finland, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Latvia,

Slovakia, and Croatia

• 2 conferences: East and West

• 2 divisions in each conference: Kharlamov,

Chernyshev, Bobrov, and Tarasov

Playoff Format

• Top 8 teams in each conference qualify for the

playoffs

• Each conference has a quarterfinal, semifinal,

and final

• First team to win for 4 games moves onto the

next round

• The winners of each conference play in the Finals

for the Championship

Championship Trophy

Most recent champion:Metallurg Magnitogorsk

Gagarin Cup

Professional Article

• KHL Chairman Anticipates Increased

International Participation as League

Grows

• Source: PR Newswire from Proquest

• http

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Non-League Company

• NBC – National Broadcasting

Company

• American commercial broadcast

television and radio network

• First air date: 1926 (Radio), 1939

(TV)

Headquarters Location

• Comcast Building: 30 Rockefeller

Plaza, New York, NY

• West coast location: 10 University

City Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

• NBC Sports location: Stamford,

Connecticut

Linked In Profile

• NBC Universal

Website and Jobs

• www.nbc.com

• http://www.nbcunicareers.com

/our-businesses/nbc-sports-group#