The calendar and new logo have been approved. The calendar and the new VHL logo have been approved. The VHL new logo has been approved.

The Russian Hockey Federation has approved the calendar of matches for the All-Russian hockey competition - the “Major Hockey League Championship” for the 2017/18 season. 27 clubs will compete in the new season.

In the playoffs, the fight for the main VHL trophy - the Vladimir Petrov Cup - will be continued by sixteen of the strongest teams, which at each stage will form pairs according to the principle: the highest seeding number against the lowest (the team that took 1st place in the regular season will meet with 16- th, 2nd from 15th, etc.).

Hockey clubs “Gornyak” (Uchaly), “Metallurg” (Novokuznetsk), CSK VVS (Samara), as well as two Chinese teams “Kunlun Red Star Heilongjiang” (Harbin) and “Tseng Tou” (Jilin) will take part in the tournament for the first time.

The VHL regular championship will last 165 calendar days, the New Year's break will be 8 days. There will be only 15 non-game days in the championship (a year earlier - 21). Almost a third of regular season matches will be played on weekends.

When drawing up the calendar, the workload of sports facilities was taken into account, especially difficult situations were in Kazan, Penza, Krasnoyarsk, Chelyabinsk, Tyumen, Izhevsk and St. Petersburg. In order to popularize hockey, matches of VHL teams were separated as much as possible from KHL games.

Despite all the difficulties, the calendar takes into account the interests of the clubs, their logistics needs when moving from city to city, and also adheres to the sports principle of equal conditions for all participants in the VHL Championship.

The opening match will take place September 8, 2017. The winner of last season's regular championship, Torpedo from Ust-Kamenogorsk, will host at home the silver medalist of the All-Russian hockey competition of the 2016/17 season, Zauralye from Kurgan.

The logo has the shape of a shield, made in a minimalist style using a black and white color scheme. The refusal to use the colors of the Russian flag emphasizes the international status of the organization.

Stylistically, the new logo differs from the previous logo with a more rigid outline of the shield and modern lines of the font.

Dmitry Kurbatov, Executive Director FHR:

The past season in the Major Hockey League was successful and we can definitely count it as a plus for the development of the league, but at the same time we have big and ambitious plans for the future. The next season is significant for us: we are entering it with a new logo, with a new composition of clubs, with expanded representation of foreign clubs, with an updated website and an old-new cup, which is named after Vladimir Vladimirovich Petrov. It will be new season for the new Major Hockey League, which is taking a big step forward in its development.

In the playoffs, the fight for the main trophy of the VHL - the Vladimir Petrov Cup - will be continued by sixteen of the strongest teams, which at each stage will form pairs according to the principle: the highest seeding number against the lowest (the team that took 1st place in the regular season will meet with 16- th, 2nd from 15th, etc.).

The VHL regular championship will last 165 calendar days, the New Year's break will be 8 days. There will be only 15 non-game days in the championship (21 a year earlier). Almost a third of regular season matches will be played on weekends.

When compiling the calendar, the workload of sports facilities was taken into account; the situation was especially difficult in Kazan, Penza, Krasnoyarsk, Chelyabinsk, Tyumen, Izhevsk and St. Petersburg. In order to popularize hockey, matches of VHL teams were separated as much as possible from KHL games.

Stylistically, the new logo differs from the previous logo with a more rigid outline of the shield and modern lines of the font.

Dmitry Kurbatov, executive director of the FHR:

The past season in the Major Hockey League was successful and we can definitely count it as a plus for the development of the league, but at the same time we have big and ambitious plans for the future. The next season is significant for us: we are entering it with a new logo, with a new composition of clubs, with expanded representation of foreign clubs, with an updated website and an old-new cup, which is named after Vladimir Vladimirovich Petrov. This will be a new season for the new Major Hockey League, which is taking a big step forward in its development.

VHL Press Service

18.07.2017

The Russian Hockey Federation has approved the calendar of matches for the All-Russian hockey competition - “Championship of the Major Hockey League” for the 2017/18 season.

In the regular season, the teams will have to play a two-round tournament according to the system, each with each “home” and “away”. In total, at the first stage, each team will play 52 matches. In the playoffs, the fight for the main trophy of the VHL - the Vladimir Petrov Cup - will be continued by sixteen of the strongest teams, which at each stage will form pairs according to the principle: the highest seeding number against the lowest (the team that took 1st place in the regular season will meet with 16- th, 2nd from 15th, etc.).

HC Dynamo St. Petersburg will begin the regular season with an away derby against SKA-Neva 9th of September, then will play two matches away from the Moscow Region “Zvezda” and “Khimik” and go to China, where they will play their first-ever games against league newcomers “Kunlun Red Star Heilongjiang” (Harbin) and “Tseng Tou” (Jilin). The first home match of the blue-whites at the Yubileiny Sports Complex will take place September 24, the opponent will be “Izhstal” from Izhevsk.

In addition to the calendar, a new VHL logo was approved. It is an improved version of the organization’s previous logo, which allows us to convey the idea of continuity of goals and management philosophy with its significant modernization. The logo has the shape of a shield, made in a minimalist style using a black and white color scheme. The refusal to use the colors of the Russian flag emphasizes the international status of the organization.

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