The KHL and NBC

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International Hockey: The KHL By: Rachel Broner

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International Hockey:The KHL

By: Rachel Broner

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The KHL

• Kontinental Hockey League

• All throughout Europe and Asia

• Founded in 2008

• Season starts in September and the

playoffs ends in April

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Website and Headquarters Location

• Website: http://en.khl.ru

• Location: 9, Strastnoi blvd., Moscow,

127006, Russian Federation

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Commissioner

• Dmitry Chernyshenko

• Was the president of the Sochi 2014

Olympic Organizing Committee for

the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

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Past KHL Players

Pavel Datsyuk Evgeni Malkin

AlexanderOvechkin

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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

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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

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Championship Trophy

Most recent champion:Metallurg Magnitogorsk

Gagarin Cup

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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)

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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

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Linked In Profile

• NBC Universal